It’s anticipated that in the coming year nonbanks will continue to steal production market share away from depositories.

Radian, said Ibraham, expects to be fully compliant with the PMIER rules and the sale of RAA will help the company “accelerate our ability to do so.”

“We tend to look at most everything if it is mainly performing and is 2010 or later vintage agency product," said Pingora CEO Michael Lau.

We continue to hear reports about a new player in the warehouse lending space that is offering attractive borrowing rates that appear too good to be true.

Meanwhile, stock analysts who were once bullish on Ocwen are now taking out their knives, downgrading or slamming the once high-flying company.

Associates of Erbey told IMFnews that he knew several weeks ago that he would be stepping down from the company and viewed himself as a sacrificial lamb of sorts…

But Erbey's resignation may not be enough for analysts and investors who have seen the value of Ocwen’s stock plummet the past year.

At First Tennessee Bank, for example, its commitments were flat from the second to the third quarter, but average outstandings increased by 13 percent to $861 million.

One analyst, Farukh Farooqi of Marquis Research, told IMFnews that Ocwen’s board should consider dumping CEO Ron Faris. “I mean where does the buck stop?” Farooqi said.

Skyline said it raised $18 million in equity and debt from Ellington along with Upfront Ventures and Dallas Capital Management.