The lender also recently formed a real estate investment trust, Parkside Mortgage Trust. Matt Ostrander, Parkside’s CEO, said the REIT plans to issue a non-agency MBS later this year or in 2015.

The hunger for GSE speculation is also causing some investors to buy Fannie/Freddie common which has been rising of late, but not by much. However, one GSE watcher believes that buying the common, "is a fool’s game."

It's no secret that banks like to hold jumbo mortgages in portfolio, but depositories are also major contributors to non-agency securities.

More than $85 million in peer-to-peer mortgages were originated in 2013 via National Family Mortgage. It may double that performance this year.

Industry analysts predict that the New York ruling will limit rep-and-warrant claims on vintage non-agency MBS as well as future claims on recently issued jumbo MBS.

Former CFPB executive Raj Date hopes to be in the non-QM market by mid-year 2014.

According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, Flagstar is the nation’s second largest wholesale/broker lender. It also has a fairly large presence in the warehouse market.

The latest risk-sharing transaction from Fannie Mae references a $29.31 billion pool of mortgages.

Some GSE watchers fear that new Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mel Watt might slow GSE risk sharing deals but those concerns may be unwarranted.

Residential lenders reported a gradual increase in interest-only originations as 2013 progressed, despite a decline in total production.