The MSR sales machine is cranking up at MountainView.

Is a scandal brewing at FHA concerning how it handled the independent audit of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance fund or is it "politics"?

Conix Inc. is in the market with an MBS backed by nonperforming mortgages. Could other deals be far behind?

Cole Taylor Mortgage is getting serious about the servicing business. It purchased a portfolio from Liberty Savings and plans to start its own in-house platform.

There is at least one curiosity in the GSE draft bill: any individual who ever served as a director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is prohibited from serving as a board member on the new Federal Mortgage Insurance Corp.

Ellington Management under new mortgage chief Steve Abreu may go on a purchase tear, rolling up companies.

It looks like a sweet deal for Nationstar: Merrill Lynch helps sell its unsecured debt and then off loads some of its legacy MSRs to the nonbank.

We continue to hear reports that certain commercial banks are discouraging their residential loan officers to take the state test and get licensed.

Speculators have been gobbling up GSE junior preferred and common, hoping for a payout down the road tied to either the resumption of dividends or money that might come from a recovery fund.

The jumbo market is heating up with offerings from both EverBank and MountainView.