PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the production and servicing of U.S. residential mortgage loans. The company is headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company went IPO on 2013-05-09. The firm operates through two segments: production and servicing. The production segment performs loan origination, acquisition and sale activities for its account, as well as for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT). Its loan production segment sources new prime credit quality residential conventional and government-insured or guaranteed mortgage loans through three channels: correspondent production, broker direct lending and consumer direct lending. The servicing segment performs loan servicing for both newly originated loans it is holding for sale and loans its services for others, including for PMT. Its loan servicing segment performs loan administration, collection, and default management activities.