“The only way to get through that is to sell assets – and for many of them that means mortgage servicing rights,” Steve Harris of MIAC told Inside Mortgage Finance.

The non-QM market is booming, said Angel Oak executive Tom Hutchens…

The RIFs at BB&T started in December and more are expected...

AmeriSave said it wants to scale its origination business…

loanDepot founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh: “We believe in distributed retail…”

RPM CEO Rob Hirt was good-natured about the departures: “I wish CMG continued success into 2019…”

One former Fannie Mae executive familiar with Seterus opined that IBM likely received “pennies” compared to what it invested in Seterus...

However, Steve Harris, president of MIAC Capital Markets, said he sees a weak market when it comes to “franchise” deals.

Brian Benjamin of Two Rivers Mortgage & Investment in Red Bank, NJ, noted that since the bond market rally in late December, “I’ve seen a pickup in calls, but refis are still dead.”

Kurland was given an annual base salary of $900,000 from Jan. 1 of this year until Dec. 31, plus cash and equity incentives.