"My understanding is that FHA is planning on releasing supplemental performance metrics to ‘Neighborhood Watch’ to reduce reliance and focus on just a lender’s compare ratio," said Tim Rood.

Some $2.67 billion of jumbo MBS contributions in 2014 were from unidentified lenders, accounting for 27.1 percent of total issuance.

However, Nationstar, as a master servicer, provides trustees with more than 200 data fields a month regarding loan performance, servicing and more.

Forty-six different lenders contributed to the MBS led by Quicken Loans with a 39.1 percent share...

To bring the ABS to market the credit enhancement on the transaction is a hefty 23.50 percent.

Michael Stegman, a counselor to the Treasury on housing finance policy, said the exercise aims to solve the “chicken-and-egg” issue that some see as holding back non-agency MBS activity.

Two Harbors is a member of the FHLB system via a captive insurance affiliate. The Federal Housing Finance Agency is contemplating snuffing out this avenue of membership...

Two Harbors, a REIT, has been aggregating, on average, $300 million of jumbo mortgages per month.

The Mortgage Choice Act was passed by the GOP-held House in June, but failed to move through the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Prospect Mortgage is the top contributor with a 9.1 percent share, followed by Ditech Mortgage (8.6 percent) and Skyline Financial (7.1 percent). All three are nonbanks.