Company: RITM-PC
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001556593-25-000016
Chunk: 131

Company: Rithm Capital Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 131
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 information regarding financing of our MSRs and MSR financing receivables, including a summary of activity related to financing from December 31, 2024 to March 31, 2025.

Servicing agreements generally require a servicer to make advances in respect of serviced residential mortgage loans unless the servicer determines in good faith that the advance would not be ultimately recoverable from the proceeds of the related residential mortgage loan or the mortgaged property. Servicer advances typically fall into one of three categories:

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•Principal and Interest Advances: Payments made by the servicer to cover scheduled payments of principal of, and interest on, a residential mortgage loan that have not been paid on a timely basis by the borrower.

•Escrow Advances (Taxes and Insurance Advances): Cash payments made by the servicer to third parties on behalf of the borrower for real estate taxes and insurance premiums on the property that have not been paid on a timely basis by the borrower.

•Foreclosure Advances: Payments made by the servicer to third parties for the costs and expenses incurred in connection with the foreclosure, property preservation and sale of the mortgaged property, including attorneys’ and other professional fees. 

The purpose of the advances is to provide liquidity, rather than credit enhancement, to the underlying residential mortgage securitization transaction. Most servicer advances are considered “top of the waterfall” and are generally repaid from amounts received from the related residential mortgage loan pool, and to a lesser extent, payments from the borrower or amounts received from the liquidation of the property securing the loan, which is referred to as “loan-level recovery.”

Loan prepayments made by the borrowers on the residential mortgage loans underlying the securitizations can only be used to fund principal and interest advances. The servicing agreements with Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae and certain private-label securitizations generally have a “waterfall” payment structure that allows servicers to apply balances received from prepayments to cover principal and interest advance requirements. The ability to apply balances received against prepayments stems from a difference caused by the timing between the remittance of payments under the servicer’s advance and remittance obligations, generally several weeks after the due date, and servicer’s timeline to remit prepayments, which can be up to a month or more after receipt from the borrower. Because of this timing difference, servicers can effectively “borrow” against the prepayments received to cover principal and interest advance requirements. In many cases, if the servicer determines that an advance previously made would