Over the past few years, both the mega banks and regionals have been keeping some of their agency-eligible loans in portfolio...

Wells Fargo, top VA seller to Ginnie Mae, showed a modest 7.6 percent increase in Ginnie MBS issuances in the first quarter...

“Some companies were proactive in addressing these deficiencies in a timely fashion while others' control structures remained problematic,” the MMC said.

Quicken is controlled by Michigan businessman Dan Gilbert, who has been aggressively purchasing Detroit area real estate the past few years.

Hatteras held $123.3 million of jumbo ARMs at March 31, a 296 percent increase over three months.

Late last month, Sterne Agee rated Altisource an “underperform,” which is a nice way of telling investors to sell the stock…

The jump in private CMBS issuance helped offset what looks like a sharp slowdown in agency multifamily MBS production.

But a poll by JPMorgan Chase found that 30 percent of potential homebuyers said they plan to purchase a home in the next 18 months.

A total of $49.55 billion of commercial mortgages were securitized during the first quarter of 2015, virtually unchanged from the fourth quarter of last year, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. But the private CMBS market recorded a significant increase in new issuance. Non-agency CMBS production climbed 31.3 percent from the fourth quarter to hit $30.91 billion, the second-highest three-month output since the financial crisis shut down new issuance in the second quarter of 2008. Compared to the first quarter of 2014, new issuance was up 74.3 percent. The jump in private CMBS issuance helped offset...[Includes one data chart]

“I am not satisfied with only making $34 million in the quarter,” said Ocwen CEO Ron Faris. “We intend to do better.”