Federal banking agencies have signaled that regulatory-capital simplification for “smaller” banks may well include substantive MSA relief with potential impact on the servicing landscape. Clients are reminded that the agencies also plan to rewrite the overall framework for U.S. mortgage risk weightings although we do not believe the newly-announced effort to simplify regulatory capital will include this far more contentious rewrite.
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