Why short Altisource? This source reasons that as real estate values continue to improve and foreclosures slow, Altisource will have less to do going forward...

SIFMA did not take a stance on whether g-fees should be adjusted up or down. Instead, the trade group stressed that it is unclear how a change to g-fees would impact non-agency activity.

On its stated-income product, Homewood requires a minimum of three months of bank statements for both business and personal assets.

Purchase-mortgage originations jumped 44.3 percent from the first quarter of 2014 to the second quarter, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance analysis and ranking, with first-time homebuyers representing about 43.9 percent of agency activity in the sector. Purchase mortgages accounted for 64.1 percent of total mortgage production during the second quarter. That’s the highest purchase share since 1995, when financing for home purchases represented 67.2 percent of total originations. At the midway point of 2014, purchase-mortgage originations were up...[Includes four data charts]

Roughly 40 to 50 percent of Citadel's production goes on its balance sheet.

The loan is available in California, Florida, Hawaii and New Jersey, and is slated to be expanded to other states.

Two other major contributors to the deal, George Mason Mortgage and American Pacific Mortgage, are retail-only shops.

For now, nonbanks that fund non-QMs must sell them to an investor unless they have a balance sheet. Securitizations likely won’t happen until sometime in 2015.

The Finance Agency filed suit against HSBC and 17 other firms in 2011. The two remaining defendants in the cases include Nomura Holdings and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

Banks large and small continue to add mortgages to their portfolios, with new additions outpacing runoff from refinances and foreclosures. The new additions to bank portfolios are largely jumbo mortgages, though some lenders are retaining agency-eligible loans. Banks and thrifts held a total of $1.76 trillion of first-lien mortgages in portfolio as of the end of the second quarter of 2014, according to an Inside Nonconforming Markets analysis of call reports. The first-lien holdings were up 1.4 percent compared with the previous quarter and level compared with the second quarter of 2013. Among the four largest holders of first liens, only Bank of America decreased its portfolio in the second quarter. Compared with the second quarter of 2013, JPMorgan Chase was the only bank among the big four to increase its first-lien holdings.