In a letter to DOJ, Sen. Warren said the federal government could have gotten more for FHA under the False Claims Act’s treble damages provision.

Late this week, some reports surfaced suggesting that an “alternative” proposal could surface, requiring a 30 percent downpayment for QRM status.

Nonbanks the likes Ocwen Financial, Nationstar and Walter Investment will continue to be buyers of mortgage servicing rights.

A spokesman for Wells Fargo told Inside Mortgage Finance that “most of the displacements were on the fulfillment/processing side” of the business and did not include loan officers.

It was the biggest volume of new lending above the conforming loan limit since the second quarter of 2007 – before “emergency” conforming loan limits were authorized by Congress.

Significant opposition to lowering the GSE loan limits will come from Realtors, home builders and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

The $11.6 billion deal resolved Fannie's long-standing claims that BofA sold the GSE defective mortgages and mishandled various loans it serviced for Fannie between 2000 and 2008.

Cerberus Capital is contemplating purchasing additional mortgage banking firms. Meanwhile, the CFPB doesn't like what it sees in the servicing space when it comes to customer service.

With Fannie lowering its LTV maximum it will reduce the pool of eligible GSE borrowers and likely shift those loans over to FHA, which means private mortgage insurance firms will lose business.

On a combined basis, the nine lender/servicers tracked by Inside Mortgage Trends generated $243 billion in single-family mortgages during the second quarter, a little less than half the entire market.