Federal regulators have, for all intents and purposes, completed their work on the qualified residential mortgage standard. This means the final rule’s release could be imminent.

Treasury’s “Third Amendment” to the PSPA – which replaced the quarterly GSE dividend payment with a “net worth sweep” of all company profits – was the culmination of a calculated administration effort, according to former Solicitor General Ted Olson.

JPMorgan Chase is the dominant holder of non-agency MBS among depositories, accounting for almost 36 percent of the bank investment market.

The HUD chief told Hispanic real estate professionals that in today’s market, mortgage credit is too hard to obtain for consumers with low credit scores.

The rating service singles out Ocwen Financial, Nationstar Mortgage, Walter Investment Management, Quicken Loans, Provident Funding and PennyMac Loan Services, all of which have significantly increased their MSR portfolios.

An organization chart of the post-deal company provided to IMFnews has RFC’s Michael Isaacs being put in charge of “consumer direct” at PMAC.

The starting salary for the CEO is said to be about $450,000 plus benefits, which is roughly double what the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mel Watt, earns.

A veteran player in the jumbo ARM market said one investment bank in particular has “had lots of layoffs.”

American Advisors Group, whose spokesman is former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson, R-TN, led with $1.05 billion in reverse mortgage originations and a 9 percent market share.

An industry source said lenders in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario housing market are gearing up to petition HUD to recalculate the FHA loan limits in those areas.