Aquiline is headed by Jeffrey Wayne Greenberg, son of former AIG chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg.

Roughly 86 percent of the mortgages were correspondent originations.

Moreover, CMLA wants lower guaranty fees for seller/servicers...

But who is the mystery lender that Impac is talking to?

What do Fannie and Freddie really think of nonbanks? Read their SEC filings.

Rep. Ed Royce of California: "Money coming in from the GSEs should go to the taxpayers instead of a slush fund for ideological housing groups to play around with.”

But there's one little wrinkle: the GSEs cannot pass the cost of funding the HTF onto lenders…

A spokesman for Ocwen – which is also the nation’s eighth largest Ginnie Mae servicer – declined to comment on anything having to do with buyouts.

United Wholesale Mortgage is also one of the largest originators of residential loans with lender-paid mortgage insurance.

The new plea from the CHLA comes at a time when depositories are losing origination market share to fast growing nonbanks like Freedom Mortgage, United Wholesale Mortgage and others.