KBW on Ocwen: “While the company is setting up MSR [mortgage servicing rights] financing facilities, management noted returns on available MSR trended down, though the company did lower its targeted ROE [return on equity] on agency MSR to 8.5% from 9.5%."
“The purpose of this letter is to notify you of our findings, outline VA’s expectations regarding your efforts to cure noncompliance, detail what actions you might take and inform you of the actions VA will take if your curative efforts fail to bring the loans into compliance,” the correspondence reads…
October was also unusual because the flow of VA loans into Ginnie MBS exceeded the intake of FHA loans. That’s the first month of VA supremacy over FHA since the beginning of 2017 and perhaps in Ginnie’s history.
At Sept. 30, the Charlotte-based nonbank listed cash and “cash equivalents” on its balance sheet of $50.5 million, half the figure published at Dec. 31.
So now the big question: Are nonbanks really that risky when compared to depositories? A few decades ago, Congress had to bail out the savings and loan industry to the tune of $150 billion.
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