In its 8-K filing with the SEC, Ocwen revealed that during 2014, state regulators commenced 46 examinations “of one or more of our areas of operation…”

Two Harbors is a member of the FHLB system via a captive insurance affiliate. The Federal Housing Finance Agency is contemplating snuffing out this avenue of membership...

Two Harbors, a REIT, has been aggregating, on average, $300 million of jumbo mortgages per month.

Ruth Lee, executive vice president of TCS, expects a big year in the scratch-and-dent market, thanks to the GSEs.

Prospect Mortgage is the top contributor with a 9.1 percent share, followed by Ditech Mortgage (8.6 percent) and Skyline Financial (7.1 percent). All three are nonbanks.

The repo is contingent upon PennyMac – a publicly traded REIT – maintaining minimum tangible net worth of $860 million and minimum unrestricted cash of $40 million.

Any monkeying with the GSE charters must get past two of the most powerful lobbying groups in all of housing finance...

Roughly 73 percent of the mortgages in the deal have interest-only terms.

An official involved in the non-agency MBS market said it’s easier to sell private placements than it is to meet requirements for publicly registered deals

The DBO request for proposal asks that applicants for the Ocwen contract state whether they – or any affiliates – have done any consulting work for the servicer.