After PHH Mortgage, the other top IO producers in 3Q16 were JPMorgan Chase, First Republic Bank, MUFG Union Bank, and Citibank.

Fitch said AMC’s market share of due diligence on non-agency MBS was boosted by the acquisition of JCIII & Associates a year ago.

Consumer advocates were among the groups that opposed NYCB’s acquisition of Astoria…

A little less than $10.0 billion in prime non-agency MBS will be issued in 2016, according to estimates by Inside Nonconforming Markets.

PHH had been subservicing the loans for HSBC and the new owner of the MSRs had opted to bring the loans inhouse instead of using PHH…

While the deal includes many non-QMs and IOs, along with a “tier 3” representation and warranty framework, the senior tranche of the MBS will include credit enhancement of 5.75 percent.

In other instances, the home price agreed upon by the buyer and seller might fall within market trends, but the appraiser might not have access to data to verify the value.

Spector will report to Kurland, who founded the PennyMac family of companies in 2008, two years after being forced out of Countrywide Financial Corp.

No 2016 volume figures were available on SoFi, though last year the privately held nonbank funded $372.2 million, according to one presale report.

Freddie Mac believes that refis will decline by 53.0 percent from 2016 to 2017…