The Fed will soon issue a proposal to loosen capital requirements for bank holdings of mortgage servicing rights and a proposal loosening capital requirements for mortgages held in portfolio by banks.
The increase in issuance occurred across several categories, including a 79.2% surge in volume tied to loans eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises.
In October, FHA launched long-awaited updates to its waterfall, instating a trial payment plan that a borrower would have to complete before taking a permanent loss-mitigation option.
David Spector, CEO of Pennymac Financial Services, said the firm’s correspondent aggregation platform is facing increasing competition from the GSEs’ cash window.