Click to read the most recent MSR Market Update! – Mortgage rates and other rate indices have managed to remain at relatively about the same level as they were at the closing in the month of May. Mortgage rates managed to end the month of June with a marginal increase of about three (3) basis points, while float income rates decreased by about eight (8) basis points during the same period. MSR portfolio holders should expect values to remain about the same level as they were at the end of May results. However, those levels could vary depending on portfolio vintages and other portfolio characteristics such as agency and GNMA mix. The downrate risk and its potential impact on MSR values continue to persist as we navigate through the balance of 2024.
Welcome to MCT’s Quarterly Release Notes! Described within relevant tabs, you’ll find a listing of our Q2 2024 technology developments. This update also includes technology release notes for MCT’s MSRlive! and Business Intelligence tools. Improvements span general platform maintenance, feature and function enhancements, and entirely new development. Should you have questions or comments about our latest releases, please reach out to your MCT representative.
Read this blog to see why secondary market professionals continue to choose MCT for their MSR needs. Plus, view the interview with MCT’s Bill Shirreffs.
Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT®), the de facto leader in innovative mortgage capital markets technology, and Lender Price, the first cloud-native provider of mortgage pricing technology, have partnered to provide mortgage lenders using the Lender Price product and pricing engine (PPE) with loan-level MCT MSR values. MCT’s industry-leading mortgage servicing rights (MSR) grids allow Lender Price PPE clients to be more granular, profitable, and efficient when generating their front-end borrower pricing and managing their MSR portfolio.
We asked MCT’s Director of MSR Sales, David Burruss, to sit down and provide insight regarding MSR valuations as it pertains to the current market. In this video, Mr. Burruss discusses industry trends and answers the questions that the majority of clients are currently asking him. Watch the video to hear his summary and advice on MSR Valuations.
Click to read the most recent MSR Market Update! – Mortgage rates and some rate indices have experienced a slight retreat from their end of April highs, closing the month of May with robust gains over end of Q1, 2024 levels. Mortgage rates managed to end the month of May with a decrease of about thirteen (13) basis points, while float income rates decreased by about the same amount during the same period. MSR portfolio holders should expect a moderate value decline in the range of one to four (1-4) basis points from the end of April results. However, those decreases will vary depending on portfolio vintages and other portfolio characteristics such as agency and GNMA mix. The downrate risk and its potential impact on MSR values will persist as we navigate through the balance of 2024.
Join MCT’s Bill Shirreffs, Senior Director, Head of MSR Services and Sales Operations, David Burruss, Director, MSR Sales, Natalie Martinez, Manager of the MSR Services Department & Client Success, and Azad Rafat, Senior Director, MSR Services as they discuss new enhancements to the MSRlive! model, provide insight into the MSR market as a whole, and open the floor for questions from participants.
Mortgage Capital Trading, Inc. (MCT®), the de facto leader in innovative mortgage capital markets technology, today announced the release of the Base Rate Generator, an industry-changing solution that allows mortgage lenders to directly inform their front-end rate sheet pricing with their back-end capital markets executions.
View the webinar recording featuring MCT’s Phil Rasori, Chris Anderson, Rob Barnhill and Luke Chang on the latest developments in front-end pricing and back-end capital markets execution. The landscape and granularity of investor pricing has changed, and lenders should keep up in order to preserve and optimize their margins.
Click to watch this video and see what David Burruss has to advise on bulk MSR sales. – In this video, Mr. Burruss discusses industry trends and answers the questions that the majority of clients are currently asking him. Watch the video to hear his summary and advice on the current market.
Click to read the most recent MSR Market Update! – Mortgage rates and some rate indices have experienced a healthy recovery from their lows recorded at the end of February, closing the month of April with robust gains over their end of the year levels. Mortgage rates managed to end the month of April with an increase of about fifty-two (52) basis points, while float income rates have increased by an average of thirty (30) basis points since the end of March. MSR portfolio holders should expect a moderate value recovery in the range of two to six (2-6) basis points from the end of March. However, those increases will vary depending on portfolio vintages and other portfolio characteristics such as Agency and GNMA mix. The downrate risk and its potential impact on MSR values will persist as we navigate through 2024.
Mortgage Capital Trading, Inc. (MCT®), the de facto leader in innovative mortgage capital markets technology, proudly introduces a game-changing advancement. With this groundbreaking development, MCT’s Enhanced Best Execution (EBX) solution emerges as a real-time bridge between MCTlive! (live whole loan/SRP execution) and MSRlive! (loan level MSR valuation), revolutionizing the landscape of best execution strategies in the mortgage industry.
In this webinar, MCT will review the current state of the MSR market and discuss more comprehensive retain vs. release strategies, in addition to our recently introduced fully integrated Enhanced Best Execution (EBX) solution. MCT’s Paul Yarbrough will provide insights from a trader’s perspective regarding MSR best execution strategies at time of loan sale. He will also be highlighting MCT’s Rapid Commit technology and assignment of trade processes. This session will include a live demo of the EBX (MCTlive! and MSRlive!) integration, showcasing how EBX can effectively optimize your flow MSR trading process and decisions.
In this webinar, MQMR and MCT review operational and regulatory best practices, tips to avoid common MSR management mistakes, and current MSR pricing trends.
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 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.
In this webinar, MCT’s Azad Rafat and David Burruss will discuss key MSR value drivers, MSR accounting methods and how the MSR life cycle effects your balance sheet.
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.
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