Subservicing Volumes Stay Flat But Loan Care Shines December 18, 2014 Paul Muolo Loan Care Servicing, an affiliate of Black Knight Financial, subserviced $110.0 billion at Sept. 30, up 47.4 percent from a year ago. Read More
More Turmoil at Specialty Servicer Wingspan? COO Scavone Departs December 18, 2014 Paul Muolo Scavone was hired by the company in January of 2014.Read More
Short Takes: Thanks to Ackman, a Santa Claus Rally in GSE Stocks / New Jumbo MBS from CS / Home Flippers Stop Flipping? / Opus Active / A Departure at Altisource December 18, 2014 Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo A year ago, in SEC filings, Pershing Square disclosed that it owned just under 10 percent of Fannie and Freddie common.Read More
Quicken Completed Mortgage Broker LPMI ‘Sale’ in 60 Hours December 17, 2014 Paul Muolo A handful of other large national wholesalers offer LPMI, including United Wholesale Mortgage. Read More
Plunging Oil Could Fuel a Mortgage Hiring Boom for Refis, But… December 17, 2014 Paul Muolo Plunging oil prices have led to a sell-off in stocks and a flight to quality, namely U.S. Treasuries and agency-backed MBS. Read More
Short Takes: Okay, Is Mortgage Credit Tighter or Looser? / A Management Shakeup at a Texas Lender / Quick, Rehire All the People You Fired / Tax Extender Bill Passed / Ex-CFC LO Headed to ‘The Big House’ December 17, 2014 Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo A mid-sized nonbank based in Texas saw two of its top officers resign last week, industry sources confirmed to IMFnews.Read More
Ellington Financial Invests in Skyline; Lender May Double Production December 16, 2014 Paul Muolo Skyline CEO Bill Dallas predicted that the nonbank funder could originate almost $4 billion next year, almost double what it produced this year.Read More
More Regulatory Woes for Ocwen – This Time From the National Servicing Monitor; Stock Hit December 16, 2014 Paul Muolo The servicing monitor then hired an independent accounting firm, McGladrey, to retest Ocwen’s performance on a number of metrics tied to the national servicing settlement.Read More
Short Takes: Can it Get Any Worse for Ocwen? / JPM Makes Progress on Loan Mods / Skyline Will Double its Capital Base / No Love for Russia / #1 in St. Louis? December 16, 2014 Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo The subordinated debt deal will double the capital base of Skyline Lending.Read More
Ocwen Resumes Ginnie Buyouts But at a Much Lower Level December 15, 2014 Paul Muolo Ocwen also did not disclose what it paid to acquire the nonperforming loans or who the buyer was.Read More