Another new entrant to the nonprime space is Garrison Investment Group, a private equity firm that late last month bought Hilco Real Estate Finance.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors alone is working on $10 billion worth of deals...

The Prestwick Group and MIAC are also working on servicing deals.

A sale of that size would greatly reduce the bank’s portfolio and would signal a strategy shift.

Other changes include: providing flexibility for servicers to comply with certain force-placed insurance and periodic statement disclosure requirements.

There’s a growing fear that the CSBS might move to increase capital standards for nonbank originators as well.

With roughly six weeks left in 2014, some mortgage firms are rushing to sell MSRs as a way to bolster fourth quarter profits.

MIAC is out with a new $73 million Fannie package and MountainView and The Prestwick Group are working on transactions as well.

And there could be some good news on lower LLPAs. Fannie said that come May 2015, it will change how it treats loans where there are two or more borrowers...

In the retail channel, LoanDepot ranks fifth among all nonbanks, a figure that excludes what Mortgage Master brings to the table.