Even with a 9.0% decline during the fourth quarter, production of home equity loans in 2025 was up 25.1% on an annual basis. Both depositories and nonbanks had a hand in boosting production. (Includes three data tables.)

New guidelines would eliminate the threshold-based deduction for mortgage servicing rights and apply a 250% risk weight to the assets.

State regulators are still in the early stages of considering changes to how the largest nonbank mortgage companies are supervised.