The nonbank wholesaler, a unit of United Shore Financial Services, has been the top contributor to six of Redwood’s prime non-agency MBS of 2018.

“I think everyone is on board,” said Colgate Selden, a former CFPB attorney and now managing director and head of regulation and compliance at Promontory MortgagePath.

A number of investors noted that it’s difficult to find structured-finance products with attractive yields.

If Ocwen reenters the servicing market as a buyer it will be doing so at a time when MSR prices are the highest they’ve been all decade...

Ditech’s most coveted asset is its $181.4 billion mortgage servicing portfolio...

The bank retreat from agency MBS servicing is mostly taking place at the top…

Expanded-credit mortgages accounted for less than 3 percent of total first-lien originations in the first half of this year.

But there’s a catch: the portfolio has a delinquency rate of 11.5 percent and foreclosures of 1.5 percent.

However, bankers and advisors who ply their trade in the MSR market have told Inside Mortgage Finance there is adequate financing available to nonbanks.

To date, Watt has maintained that he did not do anything legally wrong...