Ditech’s most coveted asset is its $181.4 billion mortgage servicing portfolio...

The bank retreat from agency MBS servicing is mostly taking place at the top…

Expanded-credit mortgages accounted for less than 3 percent of total first-lien originations in the first half of this year.

But there’s a catch: the portfolio has a delinquency rate of 11.5 percent and foreclosures of 1.5 percent.

However, bankers and advisors who ply their trade in the MSR market have told Inside Mortgage Finance there is adequate financing available to nonbanks.

To date, Watt has maintained that he did not do anything legally wrong...

Rumors were floating around this week that a large non-QM securitization deal could be in the works...

Highbridge Capital Management, New York, this week disclosed a 9.79 percent stake in the troubled Ditech Financial, a once bankrupt servicing giant whose future continues to be an open question.

Three megabanks account for an outsized share of first liens held by banks: Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

Blackrock and PIMCO were among the firms cited as avoiding new non-agency MBS deals…