Expect[ed] Loss

Shortly after our blog posting went out on Friday evening, Ocwen (OCN) and Nationstar (NSM) and affiliated companies announced two agreemen...

It's February 20th, and time to update our post from Feb. 20th last year, when we investigated state of the mortgage servicing arena. ...

In its settlement with the Department of Justice, S&P has backed off its assertion that the federal lawsuit was filed in retaliation fo...

On January 21, S&P settled a number of complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as two states’ attorneys genera...

This week has been an interesting one in the world of HFT worries... Citigroup, somewhat surprisingly, announced the closure of its pre...

Earlier this month, we published default probability scores for 490 California cities and counties using a municipal scoring model I develo...

The brokers/dealers have had their fair share of scrutiny among the recent revelations in the high-frequency trading (HFT) saga. Amo...

Last week, the SEC sanctioned thirteen brokerage firms for selling individual investors Puerto Rico General Obligation bonds in denominati...

On October 28, San Francisco Supervisors will consider forming a Homeownership Stabilization Authority with the city of Richmond. The Autho...

Ocwen just can't seem to get a break. After a rough first 9 months to the year -- stock was down 53.5% YTD as of Monday's close -...