The Mortgage Bankers Association said, if implemented, the proposed changes would make it “unattractive for banks to continue to offer” warehouse lines to nonbank mortgage companies.
"Record To-Be-Announced activity [in March] was primarily driven by a spike in rate volatility amid heightened macro uncertainty and broader market volatility," Tradeweb said.
Hope Dmuchowski, a senior executive vice president and chief financial officer at First Horizon Bank, said the bank’s mortgage warehouse activity is “behaving seasonally” with a decline in volume compared with the fourth quarter.