4.3.3 HEAVILY CONCENTRATED CONDUIT TO THE SECONDARY
MARKET
Today, almost all HECM loans are packaged into Ginnie Mae securities.186 The Ginnie
Mae-based market is barely three years old and still faces challenges.187 As shown in
34, only five issuer-servicers are actively packaging HECM securities from new
originations.188 A larger number of entities are authorized issuer-servicers, but some
have yet to actually issue any securities, preferring instead to sell their loans to existing
issuer-servicers. The capacity of the issuer-servicer sector to buy loans and bundle
securities shrank considerably with the departure of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and
Financial Freedom in 2011 and MetLife in 2012. In January 2011, Ginnie Mae also
tightened its issuer requirements by increasing the net worth requirement from $1
million to $5 million, which further limited the number of lenders eligible to become
issuers