Also, Mr. Cooper was busy as well, buying Seterus and Pacific Union Financial…

New MBS production was up 32.0% from 2018 as an unexpected wave of refinancing business continued to pour into the secondary market.

The non-QM lender is now offering bridge loans with amounts of up to $3.0 million.

The Layton paper also considers Treasury’s roughly $240 billion of senior preferred equity in the GSEs…

Through the first nine months of 2019 UWM had a wholesale/broker market share of 32.7%.

The dollar volume of purchase-loan deliveries declined across all nine risk categories, with the biggest drop taking place in the highest-risk bucket.

“The NYDFS has taken cyber security to a whole new level," said one lender. "They are hammering everyone about the risk and heavy enforcement in examinations.” 

Redwood also revealed deferred stock units/awards to its five most senior executives. Abate will take home $1.875 million in DSUs, Robinson, $2.25 million.

The CMLA and the others stressed the commitment of FHFA and Treasury to housing-finance reform should be followed by urgent action.

However, two asset categories – business loans and consumer loans – saw substantially higher production in the fourth quarter...