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.
COVID-19 has affected more than just people’s health; it has affected people’s ability to work and pay their mortgage. In this blog post, learn five best practices for secondary and operations managers to manage risk and succeed in times of market volatility.
In this article, we will discuss how to adjust lock desk best practices to transition loan sales to Best Efforts during periods of market volatility. We will also provide some context to explain why switching to Best Efforts loan sales might be a necessity in some cases.
This is a timely announcement from MCT’s MSR Services division to summarize how the first quarter of 2020 has changed MSR valuation assumptions.
In this blog post and story, view recommendations from MCT’s MSR team on how to make speedy and informed retain-release decisions during periods of market volatility.In these times of low but volatile interest rates, mortgage companies are thrilled with the...
View recommendations on how to employ rate renegotiation policies to guide your staff in mitigating profit loss using three example best practices.
Sign up for access to the broadcast live from the 2022 MCT Exchange on September 13th at 12pm PT. The live broadcast will feature a selection of representatives from some of the industry’s leading investors as they discuss what’s next for secondary marketing executions and how new technology is improving loan sale processes.
In this post, we will provide an overview for implementing mandatory loan sale delivery and how mortgage bankers like Andrew Stringer at First Bank were able to capture a +52 bps pickup over best efforts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this video interview, Ben Coll explains the true value behind MCT’s Product and Pricing group, and why data accuracy is so important for loan sale decisions. Learn how we make White-Label Rate Sheets & Mark to Market Reporting services effective for your organization’s bottom-line.
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.
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.
The format of this session provided the audience with a perspective for opportunities in 2017, 2018 and further into the future! Learn from Phil Rasori and other expert panelists that were part of this panel for the California MBA Secondary Marketing Committee.
This is our recap of the first of two different panel sessions Phil Rasori participated in at the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) 45th Annual Western Secondary Market Conference show in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis Hotel from July 19 – 21. The presentation answered the question – “What is going on with the hedging market as related to granularity in the pricing of the mortgage asset?”
