Green Point
Mortgage
Green Point Mortgage (GPM), is in the business of
originating, selling, securitizing and servicing
mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family
residences. Also, certain loans originated by GPM are
retained in the Bank's loan portfolio.
As a specialty mortgage lender, GPM's strategy is to
focus on specialized mortgage loan products for
primarily high credit quality borrowers. GPM generally
places an emphasis on credit scores obtained from three
major credit bureaus to evaluate the credit quality of
borrowers.
GPM considers high credit quality borrowers to be those
whose credit scores equal or exceed levels required for
the sale or exchange of their mortgage loans through the
Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. (continued below...)
GPM offers mortgage loan products in order to provide
maximum flexibility to borrowers and third-party
mortgage brokers and other entities through which it
originates mortgage loans. These products include
conforming agency mortgage loans, non-conforming
mortgage loans (including Alt A mortgage loans), home
equity loans and limited documentation loans. Alt A
loans may fail to satisfy certain elements of the agency
underwriting criteria such as those relating to
documentation, employment history, income verification,
loan to value ratios, qualifying ratios or other
compensating factors.
As of December 31, 2002, GPM's mortgage loan servicing
portfolio consisted of mortgage loans with an aggregate
principal balance of $29.6 billion, including $14.9
billion serviced for GreenPoint and $14.7 billion
serviced for other investors. GPM can realize the value
embedded in its mortgage loan servicing portfolio
immediately by selling its mortgage loan servicing
rights or, alternatively, it can realize the value
gradually over the life of the mortgage loan servicing
portfolio through the receipt of monthly mortgage loan
servicing fees and imputed interest. |
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