Ditech's shares now trade for just six cents apiece...

Founded 20 years ago, PRMI is a retail-only lender that funded $3.7 billion through the first nine months of 2018…

Liquidity means access to cash – and is a chief concern of Ginnie Mae acting president Michael Bright as well…

One advisor said he knows of three bulk transactions that are stalled: one sized at $7.0 billion, another at $16.0 billion, and one more at $24.5 billion.

Mark Stafford, a principal in MS Capital Advisors, New York, said larger firms are content to stay the course…

At Sept. 30, banks and thrifts serviced $3.627 trillion of residential mortgages for others…

Founded by industry vet Willie Newman, Home Point is owned by investment funds managed by Stone Point Capital...

Ocwen, which paid $360 million in cash for PHH, also disclosed: “The purchase price we negotiated contemplated PHH could continue to incur losses.”

Small- to medium-sized residential lenders are finding a home in today’s merger-and-acquisition market, but larger transactions are facing long odds with private equity investors sitting on the side-lines. At least that’s the view this week from a handful of advisors interviewed by Inside Mortgage Finance.

In past downturns, large lenders and servicers were either sold outright or they joined forces with like-sized companies…