MCT is a leader in the secondary market and mortgage industry space. Since 2001 we have grown from a mortgage pipeline hedging specialist into a fully-integrated provider of capital markets services and technology, constantly with a finger on the pulse on secondary market trends and news. Throughout these transformative years, we have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and are eager to share that all with you. From webinar recaps to weekly market updates, stay updated by browsing our extensive blog content collection.
In this issue we will determine the value and examine some risk scenarios with an actual MSR portfolio utilizing the ASE, consider some of the implications to managing MSR risk through hedging, and discuss how ASE can be used to gain a more precise and nuanced understanding of a portfolio’s underlying risks.
In this issue of Servicing Insights, we will describe our methodology of determining MSR values and quantifying and monitoring MSR risk. Our approach to modeling the different market interest rates is to statistically model a set of structural relationships between the interest rates, as well as other variables which cause them to change.
Our webinar recap will help you be prepared for this important transition to the Single Security Initiative (SSI), review the rationale behind the initiative, how the structure of the mortgage industry will (and will not) change, how pooling, trading, and delivery will be affected, and the main prep tasks for lenders.
Join webinar to learn how to determine which MSRs to sell, how to evaluate bids you receive, and tips for negotiating a contract. Topics will also include expected challenges, purchase terms, and timing of the sale.
The Texas Women Mortgage Banker’s (TWMB) networking group’s inaugural event, hosted in conjunction with the 2019 TMBA Southern Secondary Conference, was reported to be a hugely successful event, one that marks the start of many more collaborative and engaging events for mortgage professionals in Texas. MCT is proud to have been the sole sponsor of this first ever networking luncheon in the state of Texas.
In this whitepaper by Bill Berliner, Director of Analytics, we explore the current events and trends that have the greatest power to impact the secondary market in 2019. What changes to interest rates are expected? What influence might those changes have on volumes? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Register and attend on February 20, 2019 at 11AM Pacific for actionable tactics that address both short and long-term profitability. The webinar will be moderated by Chris Anderson, CAO of MCT, and feature panelists James Deitch, CEO and Co-Founder of TeraVerde, and Bill Berliner, Director of Analytics at MCT.
Learn the details of how Andrew Stringer at First Bank leveraged MCTlive!, Bid Auction Manager (BAM), and Rapid Commit to improve loan sale pickup and operational efficiencies.
Lenders using MCT’s loan pipeline management software, MCTlive!, received bid tape pricing at the loan level on their open pipeline in year-end mark-to-market reports, a major improvement over the rate sheet and direct trade pricing typically used for this purpose and the first step in addressing a recent crisis in derivative asset pipeline valuation.
View the webinar on MSR valuations using MSRlive!, a mortgage servicing rights software built to help MSR professionals manage their portfolio.
Join us in this educational post as we recap the best information on these new delivery options introduced in our industry webinar on October 11th, 2018. “Under the right conditions, bid tape AOT offers a prescriptive economic value over other executions.”
We are proud to introduce our latest whitepaper, What Caused the Lender Profit Margin Compression? by Bill Berliner, for those who are interested in diving into MCT client and market data. We’ll discuss lender competition, decreasing volumes, increased interest rates, and weakening of relative pricing of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as contributors.
In this webinar recap, we will summarize the discussions of our panelists who explain: two drivers of margin compression in the market today, why LO commission management matters for keeping your business profitable, and how to eradicate inefficiencies in calculating LO commissions by leveraging a technology solution.
Expanding a lender’s pipelines of long-term locks allows them to access new sources of production a grow their businesses. This whitepaper will address MCT’s approach to conceptualizing the different risks associated with long-term locks and then hedging the exposure by using TBA forward contracts and/or exchange-traded options.
In a recent discussion, one of our clients, Timothy Ieyoub, SVP of Capital Markets at Eustis Mortgage, was so excited to share how his company’s loan sale process improved after the Bid Auction Manager (BAM) introduction that we have created a case study to share his experience. We will be reviewing his before and after experience to illustrate the improvement of Eustis Mortgage’s loan sales process.
Explore why hedging MSRs is practiced and what significant risks and costs can be accrued by not hedging MSRs. By busting the common myths and bringing this complex topic down to earth, we hope to equip the reader with the confidence needed to take the first step for their own business. Use the Hedging Barometer tool to know if you should hedge MSRs and when is the best time to begin.
Learn how you can improve your margins regardless of market move through mandatory trading from experts in the field in our panel recap. Greatly increase your industry knowledge and outlook on future capital markets trends and mandatory trading using this article.
Learn the perspectives of top capital markets leaders on the future direction of the housing market, interest rates, market volatility, and the economy as a whole in the wake of tax reform. This Economic Outlook Panel recap is from the February 6, 2018 TMBA Southern Secondary Market Conference and features MCT’s COO Phil Rasori along with other industry experts.
Oversimplifying escrow calculations in servicing valuations can cause buyers and sellers of servicing to underestimate or overestimate their escrow balances. This happens because the traditional method of valuation takes the “average” monthly escrow...
In this live webinar recording and recap, you will learn a model for leveraging outsourcing in all stages of the mortgage origination cycle and why outsourcing is a tool of the largest mortgage companies and aggregators to increase their profitability.
This video recap of the full webinar with Glen Corso, Executive Director of the CMLA, and Phil Rasori, Chief Operating Officer at Mortgage Capital Trading, Inc. (MCT) gathers a comprehensive understanding of what you need to know about this new rule, what it will mean for your company, and what you can do to minimize any negative impact to your company from the rule.
Over the next 6 months, we are expecting to see a continued trend in the adoption of digital mortgage loan trading tools. This conference panel recap will help you stay ahead of the curve, prepare for the future of digital loan trading, and we hope this recap will even get you a few more basis points!
Learn how data-driven execution of closed loan collateral has enabled aggregators to price loans more efficiently than ever before. Download the full article from Secondary Marketing Executive magazine written by MCT’s COO, Philip Rasori.
In this event recap, we have highlighted the important comments from this educational panel that will explain your best strategies for retaining or selling MSRs. The main takeaway from the “Navigating the Waters” Servicing Panel at the Western States Loan Servicing and Technology Conference was the different strategies for growing your servicing portfolio.
