Meanwhile, two mid-sized lenders told Inside Mortgage Finance on Friday that they too are shuttering their Realtor-related MSAs.

But there is some good news: the new rule will ease reporting requirements for small banks and credit unions.

Servicing workers, in particular, feel like they have a target on their backs, thanks to outsourcing and other factors...

The Collingwood Group, a Washington-based consultancy that built its practice on Ginnie Mae work and issues tied to the government-sponsored enterprises, has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to open a broker/dealer unit. The new division is called Collingwood Capital Advisors and will be headed by Mark DeGennaro, who joined TCG as a managing director in February 2011 to head what was then a new effort to build the consultancy’s hedge fund/private equity group. Although Collingwood Capital is now a registered broker/dealer, it will not be involved...

A spokesman for Stonegate Mortgage confirmed that Bolstad is no longer with the lender/servicer, but had little else to say on the matter.

Regulatory scrutiny of Caliber Home Loans includes an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman...

The new Collingwood unit, however, will not be involved in the sale of mortgage servicing rights.

GSE high-LTV mortgage programs gained traction during 3Q with the two securitizing $2.23 billion of insured purchase loans with LTV ratios of 96 or 97 percent...

Given the fairly wide range in origination volume trends among the group, it’s difficult to forecast how the overall market fared based on just their activity.

“The FHFA is trying to solve every possible problem that might come up,” said one mortgage insurance executive.