Sales of Receivables and Servicing Rights

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]

Sales of Receivables and Servicing Rights

Sales of Receivables and Servicing Rights

Residential Mortgage Loan Sales

The Bancorp sold fixed and adjustable-rate residential mortgage loans during the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020. In those sales, the Bancorp obtained servicing responsibilities and provided certain standard representations and warranties; however, the investors have no recourse to the Bancorp’s other assets for failure of debtors to pay when due. The Bancorp receives servicing fees based on a percentage of the outstanding balance. The Bancorp identifies classes of servicing assets based on financial asset type and interest rates.

Information related to residential mortgage loan sales and the Bancorp’s mortgage banking activity, which is included in mortgage banking net revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, is as follows:

	For the three months ended March 31,
($ in millions)	2021		2020
Residential mortgage loan sales(a)	$	3,207	2,955
Origination fees and gains on loan sales	89		81
Gross mortgage servicing fees	59		67

(a)Represents the unpaid principal balance at the time of the sale.

Servicing Rights

The Bancorp measures all of its servicing rights at fair value with changes in fair value reported in mortgage banking net revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.

The following table presents changes in the servicing rights related to residential mortgage loans for the three months ended March 31:

($ in millions)	2021		2020
Balance, beginning of period	$	656	993
Servicing rights originated	39		44
Servicing rights purchased	18		26
Changes in fair value:
Due to changes in inputs or assumptions(a)	152		(331)
Other changes in fair value(b)	(81)		(47)
Balance, end of period	$	784	685

(a)Primarily reflects changes in prepayment speed and OAS assumptions which are updated based on market interest rates.

(b)Primarily reflects changes due to collection of contractual cash flows and the passage of time.

The Bancorp maintains a non-qualifying hedging strategy to manage a portion of the risk associated with changes in the value of the MSR portfolio. This strategy may include the purchase of free-standing derivatives and various available-for-sale debt and trading debt securities. The interest income, mark-to-market adjustments and gain or loss from sale activities associated with these portfolios are expected to economically hedge a portion of the change in value of the MSR portfolio caused by fluctuating OAS, earnings rates and prepayment speeds. The fair value of the servicing asset is based on the present value of expected future cash flows.

The following table presents activity related to valuations of the MSR portfolio and the impact of the non-qualifying hedging strategy:

	For the three months ended March 31,
($ in millions)	2021		2020
Securities (losses) gains, net – non-qualifying hedges on MSRs	$	(2)	3
Changes in fair value and settlement of free-standing derivatives purchased to economically hedge the MSR portfolio(a)	(134)		350
MSR fair value adjustment due to changes in inputs or assumptions(a)	152		(331)

(a)Included in mortgage banking net revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.

The key economic assumptions used in measuring the interests in residential mortgage loans that continued to be held by the Bancorp at the date of sale, securitization or purchase resulting from transactions completed during the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 were as follows:

		March 31, 2021				March 31, 2020
	Rate	Weighted- Average Life (in years)	Prepayment Speed (annual)		OAS (bps)	Weighted- Average Life (in years)	Prepayment Speed (annual)		OAS (bps)
Residential mortgage loans:
Servicing rights	Fixed	5.9	11.6	%	612	5.7	12.8	%	672
Servicing rights	Adjustable	—	—		—	2.9	27.1		708

Based on historical credit experience, expected credit losses for residential mortgage loan servicing rights have been deemed immaterial, as the Bancorp sold the majority of the underlying loans without recourse. At March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Bancorp serviced $65.9 billion and $68.8 billion, respectively, of residential mortgage loans for other investors. The value of MSRs that continue to be held by the Bancorp is subject to credit, prepayment and interest rate risks on the sold financial assets.

At March 31, 2021, the sensitivity of the current fair value of residual cash flows to immediate 10%, 20% and 50% adverse changes in prepayment speed assumptions and immediate 10% and 20% adverse changes in OAS are as follows:

					Prepayment Speed Assumption						OAS Assumption
		Fair Value		Weighted- Average Life (in years)			Impact of Adverse Change on Fair Value				OAS (bps)	Impact of Adverse Change on Fair Value
($ in millions)(a)	Rate				Rate		10%		20%	50%		10%		20%
Residential mortgage loans:
Servicing rights	Fixed	$	778	5.2	13.0	%	$	(28)	(53)	(120)	645	$	(18)	(35)
Servicing rights	Adjustable	6		3.8	21.4		—		(1)	(2)	968	—		—

(a)The impact of the weighted-average default rate on the current fair value of residual cash flows for all scenarios is immaterial.

These sensitivities are hypothetical and should be used with caution. As the figures indicate, changes in fair value based on these variations in the assumptions typically cannot be extrapolated because the relationship of the change in assumption to the change in fair value may not be linear. The Bancorp believes that variations of these levels are reasonably possible; however, there is the potential that adverse changes in key assumptions could be even greater. Also, in the previous table, the effect of a variation in a particular assumption on the fair value of the interests that continue to be held by the Bancorp is calculated without changing any other assumption; in reality, changes in one factor may result in changes in another (for example, increases in market interest rates may result in lower prepayments), which might magnify or counteract these sensitivities.