secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     REDWOOD TRUST INC (RWT)
CIK:        0000930236
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-050931
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Redwood Trust forms JV with Castlelake to buy up to $8B in prime jumbo mortgages
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- JV targets up to $8B of Sequoia-sourced prime jumbo loans, with flexibility to scale.
- Redwood's Sequoia platform has purchased ~$100B in loans and securitized >$50B since 1994.
- Castlelake manages ~$36B in assets; has financed >$10B in residential/commercial loans since 2024.
- CFO Brooke Carillo states loan acquisition volumes more than doubled over the past year.
- JV includes potential acquisition of seasoned loans from bank balance sheets.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465926050931/0001104659-26-050931-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465926050931/tm2613023d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-050931

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