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.
David Spector, CEO of Pennymac Financial Services, said the firm’s correspondent aggregation platform is facing increasing competition from the GSEs’ cash window.
Rep. French Hill, R-AR, the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, was critical of initiatives by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
When asked Tuesday during Zillow’s earnings call whether mortgage lending is profitable for the company, company officials declined to directly answer the question.