Mortgages with credit scores exceeding 740 continued to dominate the conventional conforming market in 2014, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year. High-score borrowers accounted for 62.0 percent of loans securitized through the two government-sponsored enterprises in 2014. They accounted for an even bigger 66.2 percent of purchase-mortgages loans ... [Includes one data chart]

Impac said it will originate more than $2.0 billion of all mortgages in 1Q15, almost double what it produced the previous quarter.

The bill would exclude from the calculation insurance and taxes held in escrow and fees paid to affiliated companies...

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.

Fitch said the downgrade was tied to Green Tree’s “aggressive portfolio growth,” noting that the nonbank grew its MSR portfolio by almost three-fold over the past two years.