With the first quarter coming to a close, the mortgage mergers and acquisitions market shifted into high gear this week as Ocwen Financial stepped up its auction of agency servicing rights and new revelations surfaced that RoundPoint Mortgage was almost sold, but the deal hit a snag over pricing. According to investment banking officials familiar with the RoundPoint situation, a buyer backed away from the transaction because the servicer’s owner, Tavistock Group ...

Is it possible that Ocwen will sell the entire company and not just all of its agency servicing rights?

How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.

Although RoundPoint isn’t taking any questions regarding a possible sale of the company, it recently published a statement regarding its co-issuance and subservicing businesses.

Getting information out of Seterus about its business is like trying to crack the Kremlin.

Sources note that earlier in the year, the privately held Carrington was the winning bidder on a roughly $20 billion package of Ginnie MSRs sold by BofA.

But now comes the hard part for Ocwen: Unloading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receivables that have delinquencies.

"There was a deal, but it went by the boards," said one source close to the servicer.

Home Loan Servicing Solutions, which is slated for sale to New Residential Investment Corp., said it has received notice from the NASDAQ that it is no longer in compliance with the exchange's listing requirements, which means it could eventually be removed from the trading board.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is working on several servicing transactions totaling about $20 billion in product. But the receivables are being offered through private negotiation only...