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Discover the fundamentals of Mortgage Servicing Rights, their benefits, risks, accounting methods, and key valuation drivers for long-term profitability.
We asked Natalie Martinez, MCT’s Manager of the MSR Services Department & Client Success, to sit down and provide insight into MCT’s enhanced retain-release analysis (…)
In this webinar, MCT’s MSR experts, Bill Shirreffs, Azad Rafat, David Burruss, and Natalie Martinez will provide MSR insights, elaborate on their advantages and disadvantages, (…)
In this video, Mr. Barnhill shows step by step how to utilize all the elements of the Base Rate Generator with a demo recording so (…)
In this whitepaper, various hedging instruments will be explored, baseline inputs used in mortgage pipeline hedging will be examined, and recent industry advancements that have (…)
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.
The intricate world of mortgage pipeline hedging demands a nuanced understanding of key concepts such as duration, convexity, and the interplay between various market dynamics. (…)
This whitepaper reviews the intricate world of margin management, a pivotal driver of success in the ever-transforming mortgage industry. Learn how analyzing market share dynamics (…)
Determining what execution is most efficient and profitable will have a big impact on the bottom line. This whitepaper reviews several key considerations to apply (…)
Through MCT’s software and services, Vellum Mortgage has improved profitability, efficiency, and added new investors. To accomplish this goal, they rely on BAM Marketplace, MCTlive!, (…)
In this whitepaper, we’ll review the basics of co-issue transactions, how to get started and how to easily incorporate this strategy in your plan to (…)
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. (…)

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