If you haven’t heard of Andrew Olmem before, it’s because he tends to keep a low profile.

With originations slowing and scores of lenders pondering exit strategies, Panorama Partners is poised to make a big splash as a buyer of companies in the quarters ahead, according to Eric Egenhoefer, who’s teaming up with the private equity firm.

The megabank currently employs 27,000 mortgage-related workers or what it calls “team members.”

Ocwen Financial has not been a model of prosperity...

Another trading firm that hopes to ride the non-QM wave is RAMS Mortgage Capital…

Loans in GSMBS Trust 2018-RPL1 were acquired from a government-sponsored enterprise, though Fitch didn’t identify which GSE.

One New Jersey-based loan officer told IMFnews, “It’s very un-nerving right now.” He noted that on a recent workday he had account executives from three different companies come into his office. “One of them, I hadn’t seen in a year.”

Fannie and Freddie and their joint venture, Common Securitization Solutions, will implement the SSI and issue the first UMBS on June 3 of next year…

The groups expressed their view that Kraninger has the ability to lead and manage the CFPB and protect the financial interest of consumers.

As of early November, PrimeLending had 1,336 LOs registered on the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System.