Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000930236-25-000037
Chunk: 114

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 114
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 bridge loan securitization entity as a liability and at September 30, 2025, the carrying value of their interest was $17 million, representing the fair value of their economic interest in the beneficial interest issued. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the joint venture's share of earnings from their retained interest (for which positive earnings are reflected as an expense to Redwood in our consolidated statements of income) were negative $1 million and $4 million, respectively, on our consolidated statements of income (loss).

Note 16. Principles of Consolidation 

In the normal course of business, we enter into certain types of transactions with entities that are considered to be VIEs. The Company's primary involvement with VIEs has been related to its securitization transactions in which it transfers assets to securitization vehicles. We primarily securitize our acquired and originated loans, which provides a source of funding and has enabled us to transfer a certain portion of economic risk on loans or related debt securities to third parties. The entity that has a controlling financial interest in a VIE is referred to as the primary beneficiary and is required to consolidate the VIE. See Note 2 for further information on our accounting policies regarding our Principles of consolidation.The GAAP principles we apply require us to reassess our requirement to consolidate VIEs each quarter and therefore our determination may change based upon new facts and circumstances pertaining to each VIE. This could result in a material impact to our consolidated financial statements during subsequent reporting periods.Analysis of Consolidated VIEs For certain of our consolidated VIEs, we have elected to account for the assets and liabilities of these entities pursuant to the measurement alternative available to CFEs. A CFE is a VIE that holds financial assets and issues beneficial interests in those assets, and these beneficial interests have contractual recourse only to the related assets of the CFE. GAAP allows companies to elect to measure both the financial assets and financial liabilities of a CFE using the more observable of the fair value of the financial assets or fair value of the financial liabilities. The net equity in an entity accounted for under the CFE election effectively represents the fair value of the beneficial interests we own in the entity.In addition to our consolidated VIEs for which we made the CFE election, we consolidate certain VIEs for which we did not make the CFE election and elected to account for the ABS issued by these entities at fair value or amortized cost. These include two