Walter Investment also was looking at the Ocwen receivables, sources said.

A ban on captive insurers joining the FHLB system appears to be over.

“We don’t recommend that you hire a mortgage broker” for rate shopping purposes, says Consumer Reports magazine...

Despite the sequential jump in buybacks, the fourth quarter total was the second-lowest repurchase amount disclosed by the two...

Will Ocwen Financial get compensated for the termination?

Bank demand for MBS has increased due to new accounting requirements and a decline in total residential loan production in recent years.

The captive insurer is owned by a REIT, a spokeswoman for the district bank said, but declined to name either.

The biggest component in the aggregate portfolio was consumer ABS, which includes student loans, securitized leases and consumer debt other than credit cards, home-equity loans and auto finance...

Over the past few years, 482 of Ocwen’s deals have experienced breaches, but the trustee generally did not seek termination of the servicing contract.

Commercial banks and thrifts reported another decline in their ABS holdings during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis of call-report data. In aggregate, banks and thrifts held $159.22 billion of ABS in their held-to-maturity and available-for-sale retained portfolios as of the end of last year. That was the industry’s lowest level of ABS investment since the middle of 2012, and it represented a 3.1 percent drop from a revised third-quarter total of $164.35 billion. The biggest component in the aggregate portfolio was...[Includes two data charts]