Ocwen Financial announced on Thursday that it will purchase the vast majority of OneWest Bank’s servicing portfolio. The special servicer is set to acquire $78 billion in unpaid principal balance of mortgage servicing rights and related servicing advance receivables for $2.53 billion.
CFPB officials claim that lenders will originate non-qualified mortgages, though industry participants have been skeptical due to the liability involved with such loans. Raj Date, the former deputy director of the CFPB, detailed how his new firm will originate non-QMs.
Raj Date's new mortgage firm bills itself as a consumer finance company and is stacked with former high-level employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The top contributors to the new Redwood Trust jumbo deal include George Mason Mortgage, Cole Taylor Mortgage, W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital and PrimeLending.