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Mortgage Servicing Rights
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
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Mortgage Servicing Rights
  
NOTE 9
 
  Mortgage Servicing Rights
 
The Company capitalizes MSRs as separate assets when loans are sold and servicing is retained. MSRs may also be purchased from others. The Company carries MSRs at fair value, with changes in the fair value recorded in earnings during the period in which they occur. The Company serviced $211.8 billion of residential mortgage loans for others at December 31, 2020, and $226.0 billion at December 31, 2019, including subserviced mortgages with no corresponding MSR asset. Included in mortgage banking revenue are the MSR fair value changes arising
from market rate and
model
assumption changes, net of the value change in derivatives used to economically hedge MSRs. These changes resulted in a net gain of $18 million, a net loss of $24 million, and a net gain of $47 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Loan servicing and ancillary fees, not including valuation changes, included in mortgage banking revenue were $718 million, $734 million and $746 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Changes in fair value of capitalized MSRs for the years ended December 31, are summarized as follows:
(Dollars in Millions)   2020        2019        2018  
Balance at beginning of period
  $ 2,546        $ 2,791        $ 2,645  
Rights purchased
    34          20          8  
Rights capitalized
    1,030          559          397  
Rights sold
(a)
    3          5          (27
Changes in fair value of MSRs
                             
Due to fluctuations in market interest rates
(b)
    (719        (390        98  
Due to revised assumptions or models
(c)
    (12        23          56  
Other changes in fair value
(d)
    (672        (462        (386
   
 
 
 
Balance at end of period
  $ 2,210        $ 2,546        $ 2,791  
(a)
MSRs sold include those having a negative fair value, resulting from the loans being severely delinquent.
(b)
Includes changes in MSR value associated with changes in market interest rates, including estimated prepayment rates and anticipated earnings on escrow deposits.
(c)
Includes changes in MSR value not caused by changes in market interest rates, such as changes in assumed cost to service, ancillary income and option adjusted spread, as well as the impact of any model changes.
(d)
Primarily the change in MSR value from passage of time and cash flows realized (decay), but also includes the impact of changes to expected cash flows not associated with changes in market interest rates, such as the impact of deliquencies.
The estimated sensitivity to changes in interest rates of the fair value of the MSR portfolio and the related derivative instruments as of December 31 follows:
    2020      2019  
(Dollars in Millions)   Down
100 bps
    Down
50 bps
    Down
25 bps
    Up
25 bps
    Up
50 bps
    Up
100 bps
     Down
100 bps
    Down
50 bps
    Down
25 bps
    Up
25 bps
    Up
50 bps
    Up
100 bps
 
MSR portfolio
  $ (442   $ (271   $ (150   $ 169     $ 343     $ 671      $ (663   $ (316   $ (153   $ 141     $ 269     $ 485  
Derivative instrument hedges
    523       281       145       (149     (304     (625      613       306       152       (143     (279     (550
Net sensitivity
  $ 81     $ 10     $ (5   $ 20     $ 39     $ 46      $ (50   $ (10   $ (1   $ (2   $ (10   $ (65
The fair value of MSRs and their sensitivity to changes in interest rates is influenced by the mix of the servicing portfolio and characteristics of each segment of the portfolio. The Company’s servicing portfolio consists of the distinct portfolios of government-insured mortgages, conventional mortgages and Housing Finance Agency (“HFA”) mortgages. The servicing portfolios are predominantly comprised of fixed-rate agency loans
with limited
adjustable
-rate or jumbo mortgage loans. The HFA servicing portfolio is comprised of loans originated under state and local housing authority program guidelines which assist purchases by first-time or
low-
to moderate-income homebuyers through a favorable rate subsidy, down payment and/or closing cost assistance on
government
- and conventional-insured mortgages.
A summary of the Company’s MSRs and related characteristics by portfolio as of December 31 follows:     
    2020     2019  
(Dollars in Millions)   HFA     Government     Conventional
(d)
    Total     HFA     Government     Conventional
(d)
    Total  
Servicing portfolio
(a)
  $ 40,396     $ 25,474     $ 143,085     $ 208,955     $ 44,906     $ 35,302     $ 143,310     $ 223,518  
Fair value
  $ 406     $ 261     $ 1,543     $ 2,210     $ 486     $ 451     $ 1,609     $ 2,546  
Value (bps)
(b)
    101       102       108       106       108       128       112       114  
Weighted-average servicing fees (bps)
    35       40       30       32       34       39       28       31  
Multiple (value/servicing fees)
    2.87       2.56       3.55       3.26       3.15       3.29       4.00       3.67  
Weighted-average note rate
    4.43     3.91     3.78     3.92     4.65     3.99     4.07     4.17
Weighted-average age (in years)
    3.8       5.6       4.2       4.3       3.7       4.9       4.8       4.6  
Weighted-average expected prepayment (constant prepayment rate)
    14.1     18.0     13.8     14.4     12.2     13.7     12.2     12.4
Weighted-average expected life (in years)
    5.6       4.3       5.5       5.4       6.5       5.7       5.9       6.0  
Weighted-average option adjusted spread
(c)
    7.7     7.3     6.2     6.6     8.4     7.9     6.9     7.3
(a)
Represents principal balance of mortgages having corresponding MSR asset.
(b)
Calculated as fair value divided by the servicing portfolio.
(c)
Option adjusted spread is the incremental spread added to the risk-free rate to reflect optionality and other risk inherent in the MSRs.
(d)
Represents loans sold primarily to GSEs.