PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE:PFSI) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive AgreementItem 1.01Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On August 10, 2017,PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (the “Company”), through the Company’s indirect subsidiary, PNMAC GMSR ISSUER TRUST (“Issuer Trust”), issued an aggregate principal amount of $500 million in secured term notes (the “Term Notes”) to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).The Term Notes bear interest at a rate equal to one-month LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum, payable each month beginning in August 2017, on the 25th day of such month or, if such 25th day is not a business day, the next business day. The Term Notes will mature on August 25, 2022 or, if extended to the terms of the Term Note Indenture Supplement (as defined below), August25, 2023 (unless earlier redeemed in accordance with their terms).The Term Notes rank pari passu with (a) the secured term notes due February 25, 2020 issued by Issuer Trust on February 16, 2017, and (b) the Series 2016-MSRVF1 Variable Funding Note dated December 19, 2016 (the “VFN”) issued by Issuer Trust to one of the Company’s indirect controlled subsidiaries, PennyMac Loan Services, LLC (“PLS”). In addition, the Term Notes are secured by certain participation certificates relating to Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”) and excess servicing spread relating to such MSRs (“ESS”) that are financed to a structured finance transaction, which is further described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 21, 2016 (the “GNMA MSR Facility”).
The Term Notes have not been and are not expected to be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. persons absent an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
Second Amended and Restated Base Indenture
The Term Notes were issued to the terms of (i) a secondamended and restated base indenture, dated as of August 10, 2017 (the “Amended Base Indenture”), by and among Issuer Trust, Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee, calculation agent, paying agent and securities intermediary (the “Indenture Trustee”), PLS, as the servicer and administrator, Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Capital LLC (“CSFB”), as administrative agent, and Pentalpha Surveillance LLC, as credit manager (the “Amended Base Indenture”); and (ii) a Series 2017-GT2 indenture supplement, dated as of August 10, 2017, to second amended and restated base indenture dated August 10, 2017 (the “Term Note Indenture Supplement”).
The Amended Base Indenture, which amends and restates that certain amended and restated base indenture dated as of February 16, 2017, requires Issuer Trust and PLS to make certain representations and warranties customary for secured financing transactions and also requires PLS to maintain various financial tests and other covenants, which include maintaining (i) an adjustable tangible net worth equal to or greater than 50% of the Ginnie Mae Single-Family Issuer minimum net worth requirement;(ii) liquidity equal to or greater than 50% of the Ginnie Mae Single-Family Issuer minimum liquidity requirement; (iii) if the aggregate monetary value of all out-of-pocket advances on Ginnie Mae mortgage backed securities exceeds the Single-Family Issuer minimum liquidity requirement, 50% of such minimum liquidity requirement; and (iv) a minimum fair market value relating to its base servicing fee. In the event PLS fails to maintain one or more of these financial tests or other covenants, the noteholders have the right to reduce the advance rate available to PLS under the Term Notes.
In addition, the Amended Base Indenture contains events of default (subject to certain materiality thresholds and grace periods), including payment defaults on any series or class of notes, breaches of covenants and/or certain representations and warranties, cross-defaults, guarantor defaults, bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings and other events of default customary for secured financing transactions. The remedies for such events of default include the acceleration of the principal amount outstanding under the Amended Base Indenture and the liquidation of certainMSRs and ESS by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the noteholders of any notes issued by the Issuer Trust. If an event of default has occurred and is continuing with respect to any series of notes issued by the Issuer Trust, the Indenture Trustee is responsible for exercising any such rights and powers vested in it by the Amended Base Indenture on behalf of the noteholders.
The foregoing descriptions of the Amended Base Indenture and the Term Note Indenture Supplement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of suchagreements, which have been filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively.