Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000930236-25-000007
Chunk: 169

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 169
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, as is the potential impact any such enactment might have on the U.S. and global economy, mortgage and real estate markets, and on our business, our loan origination and acquisition volumes, and the value of, and returns on, mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, and other assets we own or may acquire in the future. The Basel III Endgame proposal, if enacted, may have a negative impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations, and that impact may be material. 

As another example, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conforming loan limits increased significantly on January 1, 2024 and again on January 1, 2025. These increases, as well as future increases in conforming loan limits, may adversely impact the amount and/or value of non-Agency loans available for purchase, which could have a material adverse effect on our residential business. As another example, in recent years, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed certain rules to enhance public company disclosure requirements, including with respect to climate-related risk and greenhouse gas emissions, and adopted rules requiring enhanced disclosure relating to cybersecurity events and risk management. The state of California has also enacted legislation mandating certain corporate disclosures of climate- and emissions-related information. In addition, in 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which, among other things, requires certain legal entities to disclose their “beneficial ownership information” through a reporting system administered by FinCEN. The CTA went into effect in January 2024, including a gradual phasing-in of the reporting requirement for entities formed prior to 2024, allowing such reports to be filed at any time prior to January 1, 2025. Since going into effect, the CTA has faced numerous legal challenges, one of which led to a stay of enforcement; however, as of the date of this Report, enforcement has resumed, with FinCEN extending the compliance date for most organizations to March 21, 2025. If and when the Securities and Exchange Commission or other governmental or regulatory bodies adopt and implement final rules or laws on these or other topics, such disclosure requirements would increase the cost, potentially significantly, of maintaining our status as a public company and of hiring third-party auditors and other consultants, as well as enhancing the risk of incorrectly reporting newly mandated metrics (such as our direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, or the climate-related impacts on our financial statements at the line-item level).

Furthermore, as a result of the economic and market disruption caused by