“Banks are really bad at servicing nonperforming loans,” said Jon Wishnia, a partner at the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler.

Hell hath no fury like an agency whose new issuers are not actually issuing (MBS)...

FHFA's Bob Ryan said the GSE regulator has concerns that decreasing loan limits or increasing g-fees would limit access to credit.

Originators are constantly looking over their shoulders because loans are being re-underwritten two or three times, once by the aggregator, once by the GSEs...

Soon it will be easier to use Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights as collateral, or so the agency hopes.

It appears that Ethos Lending will enter the non-QM market come October...

In the last quarter, for instance, Fannie and Freddie posted combined net earnings of $5.1 billion – most of which was swept into a Treasury account.

Bob Behal, a principal and co-head of ABS and commercial MBS investments at Vanguard Group, said liquidity in the market is fair.

Tozer believes that with depositories in control of the Ginnie market, the regulation of lender/servicers has essentially been outsourced to banking regulators who have “vast experience” in safety and soundness.

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...