How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.

Fannie Mae is still the most prolific author of single-family MBS, accounting for 46.6 percent of agency MBS outstanding at Dec. 31.

Fannie and Freddie don't get out of bed in the morning without first talking to the FHFA. (Then again, the two are in conservatorship.)

Although RoundPoint isn’t taking any questions regarding a possible sale of the company, it recently published a statement regarding its co-issuance and subservicing businesses.

Getting information out of Seterus about its business is like trying to crack the Kremlin.

Although Ocwen is out of compliance with the NYSE, it continues to sell mortgage servicing rights. Late Monday it disclosed a $25 billion MSR sale to Nationstar.

But now comes the hard part for Ocwen: Unloading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receivables that have delinquencies.

Urban Institute's Karan Kaul noted that some banks have opted to keep mortgages that are eligible for sale to the GSEs.

For the past five years, the IBM-owned Seterus has been Fannie Mae’s “go-to” guy when it came to default management servicing, especially in regard to short sales, but the company’s future looks cloudy as problem loans run off the government-sponsored enterprise’s books. At the end of 2014, Seterus serviced roughly $27 billion of residential loans, according to data compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance. At one time, sources say, the company serviced at least ...

Another possible outcome on g-fees is no change at all. To date, FHFA Director Mel Watt hasn’t tipped his hand.