The fear is that loan pricing will be worse and loan-to-value ratios will be more restrictive.

S&P said the upgrade was prompted by improvements to Ocwen’s “control environment,” among other items…

Redwood is working to increase investments in first-loss risk on loan pools delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

TIAA is headed by Roger Ferguson, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Higher net worth requirements coming on GSE loans?

The senior tranche of the MBS will include credit enhancement of 6.40 percent, similar to the credit enhancement levels of previous deals from Two Harbors.

There’s more than $50.0 billion in capital ready to acquire new nonprime home loans, including non-qualified mortgages, according to Dan Perl, chairman and CEO of Citadel Servicing, a nonprime lender. “Liquidity is abundant,” he said last week at the California Mortgage Bankers Association’s Western Secondary Market Conference in San Francisco. “There is a ready market for this and I couldn’t say that two years ago.” William Pendleton, a senior vice president of portfolio lending at Caliber Home Loans, said...

One of the largest players in the "new" nonprime mortgage industry is Citadel Loan Servicing, Irvine, CA, which now has a portfolio totaling $600 million.

Some industry reps say the omission of more guidance on cures will hurt the jumbo secondary market, where anxiety over assignee liability is high...

Looks like JPMorgan Chase is getting ready to issue yet another jumbo MBS...