In return, FHFA's pending lawsuits will be dismissed with prejudice and Bank of America and its affiliates will be released from all securities law and fraud claims, as well as certain other claims related to the non-agency RMBS in dispute.

CFPB watchers say the bureau’s broad examination authority and a database of more than 300,000 consumer complaints will provide a fertile pipeline for enforcement actions going forward.

Betting on Fannie/Freddie junior preferred shares is a crap-shoot and a winner won't be picked for several years.

Furthermore, the IG notes that GSE servicers failed to consistently conduct oversight procedures to evaluate vendors’ property inspector performance.

One executive familiar with PHH Mortgage said he anticipates that other senior officers may leave shortly. The firm's departing CAO was with the lender for just over a year.

Little else is known about Commerce. The press statement notes that the lender has a “vision of moving forward with a reviving market by offering products backed by a team of professionals with the upmost integrity and knowledge of the industry.”

According to a new research note from Sterne Agee, 65 percent of Altisource’s reported revenue is tied to Ocwen or Ocwen-related companies. “This is a highly symbiotic relationship," writes Stern Agee analyst Henry Coffey.

Nonbanks owned servicing rights on $1.136 trillion of securitized mortgages at the beginning of 2010, a figure that has swelled to $1.906 trillion as of the end of last year.

According to exclusive figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, almost 85 different lenders made FHA mortgages in 2013 that had FICOs of less than 550.

The agency debuted its scorecard in early March 2012 under then FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco as a means to implement in fuller detail the Finance Agency’s “strategic plan” for a post-Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac secondary market.