Moody’s Investors Service last week issued a request for comment, in which the firm proposes to update its published methodology covering Moody’s approach to Servicer Quality assessments for primary servicers of residential mortgage loans in the U.S. The key changes proposed include augmenting servicer data with more timely trust data, applying a formal weighting system to the assessment factors, applying a more positive treatment to modified loans, and adding a re-default rate to those modified loans. Once the proposed...