Citadel now has offices in California, Georgia, Oregon and plans to open an underwriting and transaction location in Salt Lake City soon.

Will the leaked memo lead to confirmation problems for Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs and Wall Street alumni? Probably not...

But if you think that Wells Fargo will pull a “BofA” and quietly downshift its presence in mortgages, think again.

The new MBS is backed by 4,274 mortgages that have seasoned for an average of 10.6 years.

Wells Fargo, for example, reported that 90.7 percent of its third-quarter jumbo originations came through the retail channel…

Subprime MBS cases continue to haunt Wall Street…

“Home prices cannot rise faster than incomes and inflation indefinitely.” – David Blitzer, managing director of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones.

The retail channel accounted for 91.7 percent of Wells Fargo’s jumbo production during the first nine months of 2016…

Fitch had a 55.3 percent share of the ABS ratings market through September...

Mortgage lenders that generate a lot of jumbo home loans tend to rely heavily on their retail production platforms, while third-party originators play a bigger role in agency-eligible production. That’s one finding from an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of exclusive survey data collected by Inside Mortgage Finance. Lenders participating in the survey reported that 80.3 percent of their third-quarter jumbo production came through their retail platforms ... [Includes two data charts]