Ocwen also did not disclose what it paid to acquire the nonperforming loans or who the buyer was.

Aquiline is headed by Jeffrey Wayne Greenberg, son of former AIG chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg.

Bank and thrift MSR holdings peaked at $5.977 trillion back at the end of 2009.

Roughly 86 percent of the mortgages were correspondent originations.

Moreover, CMLA wants lower guaranty fees for seller/servicers...

But who is the mystery lender that Impac is talking to?

Nationstar, Ocwen, Select Portfolio Servicing and Wells Fargo all need moderate improvement in their HAMP performance.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will soon propose increasing transparency on trading of certain MBS, but officials say it won’t the market. Late last week, the FINRA board of governors authorized issuance of a regulatory notice soliciting comment on a proposal to amend rules for Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine, or TRACE. The proposal would provide for public dissemination of transaction information in real time for deals valued under $1 million, and in aggregate weekly and monthly reports for transactions valued at $1 million or more. FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum said...

By some measurements, the market for commercial MBS backed by single-family rental units has been successful, drawing investors from Wall Street, the hedge fund community and overseas. But that success, to some degree, is beginning to worry the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research. Moreover, the OFR also is expressing anxieties about mortgage real estate investment trusts and repurchase agreements. As of September 2014, roughly $5 billion of single-family rental MBS had been issued...

What do Fannie and Freddie really think of nonbanks? Read their SEC filings.