This whitepaper outlines why having a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae approval adds value to a mortgage company or depository and offers some important tips on how to obtain that valuable approval.
BSI Financial Services (BSI) has become the latest investor to join BAMCO, MCT’s new marketplace for co-issue loan sales. BAMCO brings co-issue transactions directly into MCT’s whole loan trading platform and improves price transparency by connecting unapproved sellers to live executions from potential buyers.
Azad Rafat, MCT’s Senior Director of MSR Services, has been selected as a 2022 HW Tech Trendsetter. Azad is credited with driving innovation in the housing market specifically with his work on MCTlive! 2.0, a new software update to the original MSRlive! MSR software trading platform and portfolio system.
In this webinar, Natalie Martinez along with Bill Shirreffs and Azad Rafat go over all of the new features and exciting transition to MSRlive! 2.0.
In this two-part video series, Freddie Mac and MCT’s MSR division team up to discuss strategies for managing a MSR portfolio in a volatile market. Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the video series below or contact us today for strategic MSR guidance.
With the new MSRlive! API, you can develop pricing that includes key loan-level characteristics such as location, FICO, loan-to-value (LTV), and more in real time. By factoring in these elements, there is an opportunity which allows avoiding overpaying for potentially underperforming assets.
Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT®), a leading mortgage hedge advisory and secondary marketing software firm, has announced today a new technology for mortgage servicing rights (MSR) buyers to produce more granular pricing for mortgage servicing. The feature leverages an application programming interface (API) to connect MSRlive!, MCT’s state-of-the-art MSR valuation platform to clients’ systems for more precise and accurate loan-level pricing in real time.
Register for this client-exclusive webinar on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 10 a.m. PT for a discussion on the MSR market in 2022.
MCT’s Enhanced-Best-Execution (EBX) tool is the most comprehensive tool on the market for helping secondary market (MSR portfolio) managers determine which loans to retain or release. Recently, MCT announced it has automated the data reconciliation process to seamlessly transfer (via API) information between MCTlive! (Hedging Platform) and MSRlive! (MSR Platform).
The economy continues to heal from the pandemic and MSR pricing has seen improvement as a result. Many servicers are still sitting on large portfolios as a result of MSR multiples/prices going to zero in early 2020, but the market is becoming ripe for MSR bulk sales and there is ample capital/liquidity from buyers ready to purchase. Continue reading below for our Top 5 Takeaways for the Bulk MSR Market.
SAN DIEGO, CA, 10-08-2021 – MCT announced today that Azad Rafat has joined the company as the new Senior Director of MSR Services. Mr. Rafat will leverage his hands-on experience designing, building and managing mortgage servicing products to help MCT clients achieve their mortgage servicing goals.
In this case study, Mr. Miles explains how he is leveraging MCT’s Business Intelligence Platform software to glean impactful insights into rates, pricing, and the industry.
The loan sale process has contributed to recent challenges in the secondary market. An open loan exchange mitigates risk and unlocks profitability. In this webinar, MCT’s Phil Rasori and Justin Grant, as well as OnQ Financial’s Angela Wooldridge and Alpha Mortgage’s Genesis Collins reviewed bidding regardless of approval status, mitigating risk, and increasing profitability.
In collaboration with CUREN and MGIC, MCT will examine credit union’s process flow to identify potential improvements in areas such as secondary marketing, technology, automation, and business processes. The strategies explored in this webinar amount to over 50 basis points of potential improvement to margins based on the experiences of Credit Unions who have put them to use….
Mortgage Capital Trading®, Inc. (MCT), the leading mortgage hedge advisory and secondary marketing software firm, announced today their Enhanced Best-Execution (EBX) tool used for MSR retain-release decisions has now automated the function of pulling comprehensive data from MCTlive!® and MSRlive!.
With the first quarter over in 2021, the market for MSR sales is beginning to shift. Take a look below and review our Top 5 Takeaways for Bulk MSR Market.
As MSR pricing and volatility begin to normalize in 2021, many portfolio managers are revisiting their short-term and long-term servicing strategy. In this webinar, MCT’s Phil Laren, David Burruss and several mortgage lenders reviewed current MSR market trends and strategies to optimize your portfolio.
In this case study, Mr. Danilowicz explains how MCT’s MSR team helped Doorway Home Loans successfully facilitated a $1 billion MSR Sale. He also describes how MCT was instrumental in providing critical guidance through the 2020 market uncertainty and volatility.
MCT® announces that David Burress has joined the company in the position of MSR Sales Director, directly addressing the increase in market demand for MCT’s MSR products.
In this servicing insights article, we will provide some guidance on the MCT’s approach to recapture and its impact on servicing. We will define recapture, how to measure it, how to include it in MSR valuation exercises, and whether it should be included in a fair value assessment of MSR.
In this timely article, MCT’s Director of MSR Services, Phil Laren, reviews how market changes have impacted MSR forbearance in 2020. He also outlines common challenges experienced by portfolio managers and MCT’s recommendations for future MSR management.
In this webinar from May 28th at 11AM PT, MCT’s Phil Laren and Bill Berliner discussed current MSR market conditions, cash management and forbearance strategies.
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.
