In 2013, CashCall sold roughly $10 billion of residential servicing rights – a sale that may have been forced by Fannie Mae, sources told IMF.

It was the strongest refi volume of the year, and it helped offset a 9.8 percent drop in purchase-mortgage securitization over the same period.

Moody’s noted that 88.1 percent of the mortgages slated for securitization have been modified.

A spokesman for Impac said the purchase price will be disclosed “when the final docs are filed.”

Lowering premiums now would only put the FHA MMIF further behind, the House Financial Services Committee chairman argued.

Mortgage lenders are delirious about lower FHA premiums, right? Well, not everyone.

HUD Secretary Castro said the MMIF is on a “positive trajectory,” though he admits the premium reduction could delay its recovery...

Molly Boesel, a senior economist at CoreLogic, said mortgages originated in the past four years are among the most pristine loans made in the past two decades.

“Auctions would determine the market prices of those guarantees and allocate them to the lenders who most valued them,” the CBO said.

Elsewhere, Batkins projects compliance with all of the CFPB's 2014 regulations to cost the financial services industry $2.1 billion.