Management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations ("MD&A") is a supplement to the accompanying interim condensed consolidated financial statements and is intended to provide a reader of our financial statements with a narrative from the perspective of management on our businesses, current developments, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity. Our MD&A should be read in conjunction with our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 3, 2022.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may relate to, among other things, future events or our future performance or financial condition. Words such as "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "may," "could," "should," "would," "plan," "estimate," "believe," "predict," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these terms and comparable terminology are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on expectations as to the future and are not statements of historical fact. Furthermore, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. The following are examples of such items and are not intended to be all inclusive:

•assumptions related to sources of liquidity and the adequacy of financial resources;

•assumptions about our ability to grow our business, including executing on our strategic initiatives;

•assumptions about our ability to improve margins and affect anticipated expense reductions in response to lower revenue due to COVID-19 or other factors;

•assumptions about the variable nature of our cost structure that would allow us to realign our cost structure in line with revenue;

•assumptions regarding the impact of seasonality;

•assumptions regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the timeliness and effectiveness of actions taken in response thereto;

•estimates regarding our effective tax rate; and

•estimates regarding our reserves and valuations.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the risks discussed in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 including:

•the timing of the anticipated increase in default related referrals following the expiration of foreclosure and eviction moratoriums, forbearance programs and temporary governmental or servicer loss mitigation requirements, the timing of the expiration of such moratoriums, programs and requirements, and any other delays occasioned by government, investor or servicer actions;

•our ability to retain Ocwen Financial Corporation (together with its subsidiaries, "Ocwen") as a customer or our ability to receive the anticipated volume of referrals from Ocwen;

•our ability to retain Rithm Capital Corp. (individually, together with one or more of its subsidiaries, or one or more of its subsidiaries individually, "RITM") (formerly New Residential Investment Corp., or "NRZ") as a customer or our ability to receive the anticipated volume of referrals from RITM;

•our ability to comply with material agreements if a change of control is deemed to have occurred including, among other things, through the formation of a shareholder group, which may cause a termination event or event of default under certain of our agreements;

•our ability to execute on our strategic plan;

•our ability to retain our existing customers, expand relationships and attract new customers;

•our ability to comply with governmental regulations and policies and any changes in such regulations and policies;

•our ability to develop, launch and gain market acceptance of new solutions or recoup our investments in developing such new solutions;

•the level of loan delinquencies and charge-offs;

•the level of origination volume;

•technology incidents, data breaches and cybersecurity risks;



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•the risks and uncertainties related to pandemics, epidemics or other force majeure events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated impacts on the economy, supply chain, transportation, movement of people, availability of vendors and demand for our products or services as well as increased costs, recommendations or restrictions imposed by governmental entities, changes in relevant business practices undertaken or imposed by our clients, vendors or regulators, impacts on contracts and client relationships and potential litigation exposure.

We caution the reader not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements as they reflect our view only as of the date of this report. We are under no obligation (and expressly disclaim any obligation) to update or alter any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

OVERVIEW

Our Business

When we refer to "Altisource," the "Company," "we," "us" or "our" we mean Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A., a Luxembourg société anonyme, or public limited liability company, and its subsidiaries.

We are an integrated service provider and marketplace for the real estate and mortgage industries. Combining operational excellence with a suite of innovative services and technologies, Altisource helps solve the demands of the ever-changing markets we serve.

Effective January 1, 2022, our reportable segments changed as a result of a change in the way our Chief Executive Officer (our chief operating decision maker) manages our businesses, allocates resources and evaluates performance, and the related changes in our internal organization. We now report our operations through two reportable segments: Servicer and Real Estate and Origination. In addition, we report Corporate and Others separately. Prior to the January 1, 2022 change in reportable segments, the Company operated with one reportable segment (total Company). Prior year comparable period segment disclosures have been restated to conform to the current year presentation.

The Servicer and Real Estate segment provides loan servicers and real estate investors with solutions and technologies that span the mortgage and real estate lifecycle. Within the Servicer and Real Estate segment we provide:

Solutions

Our Solutions business includes property preservation and inspection services, title insurance (as an agent) and settlement services, real estate valuation services, foreclosure trustee services, and residential and commercial construction inspection and risk mitigation services.

Marketplace

Our Marketplace business includes the Hubzu® online real estate auction platform and real estate auction, real estate brokerage and asset management services.

Technology and software-as-a-service ("SaaS") Products

Our Technology and SaaS Products business includes Equator® (a SaaS-based technology to manage real estate owned ("REO"), short sales, foreclosure, bankruptcy and eviction processes), Vendorly Invoice (a vendor invoicing and payment system), RentRange® (a single family rental data, analytics and rent-based valuation solution), REALSynergy® (a commercial loan servicing platform), and NestRangeTM (an automated valuation model and analytics solution).

The Origination segment provides originators with solutions and technologies that span the mortgage origination lifecycle. Within the Origination segment we provide:

Solutions

Our Solutions business includes title insurance (as an agent) and settlement services, real estate valuation services, and loan fulfillment, certification and certification insurance services.



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Lenders One

Our Lenders One business includes management services provided to the Best Partners Mortgage Cooperative, Inc., doing business as Lenders One® ("Lenders One"), and certain loan manufacturing and capital markets services provided to the members of the Lenders One cooperative.

Technology and SaaS Products

Our Technology and SaaS Products business includes Vendorly Monitor (a vendor management platform), Lenders One Loan Automation ("LOLA") (a marketplace to order services and a tool to automate components of the loan manufacturing process), TrelixAITM (technology to manage the workflow and automate components of the loan fulfillment, pre and post-close quality control and service transfer processes), ADMS (a document management and data analytics delivery platform), and automated valuation technology.

Corporate and Others includes Pointillist, Inc. ("Pointillist") (sold on December 1, 2021), interest expense and costs related to corporate functions including executive, infrastructure and certain technology groups, finance, law, compliance, human resources, vendor management, facilities, risk management and eliminations between reportable segments.

We classify revenue in three categories: service revenue, revenue from reimbursable expenses and non-controlling interests. In evaluating our performance, we focus on service revenue. Service revenue consists of amounts attributable to our fee-based services. Reimbursable expenses and non-controlling interests are pass-through items for which we earn no margin. Reimbursable expenses consist of amounts we incur on behalf of our customers in performing our fee-based services that we pass directly on to our customers without a markup. Non-controlling interests represent the earnings of Lenders One. Lenders One is a mortgage cooperative managed, but not owned, by Altisource. The Lenders One members' earnings are included in revenue and reduced from net income to arrive at net income attributable to Altisource.

Strategy and Core Businesses

We are focused on becoming the premier provider of mortgage and real estate marketplaces and related technology enabled solutions to a broad and diversified customer base of residential real estate and loan investors, servicers, and originators. The real estate and mortgage marketplaces represent very large markets, and we believe our scale and suite of offerings provide us with competitive advantages that could support our growth. As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on our business, we continue to evaluate our strategy and core businesses and seek to position our businesses to provide long term value to our customers and shareholders.

Each of our business segments provides Altisource the potential to grow and diversify our customer and revenue base. We believe these business segments address very large markets and directly leverage our core competencies and distinct competitive advantages. Our business segments and strategic initiatives follow:

Servicer and Real Estate:

Through our offerings that support residential real estate and loan investors and servicers, we provide a suite of solutions and technologies intended to meet their growing and evolving needs. We are focused on growing referrals from our existing customer base and attracting new customers to our offerings. We have a customer base that includes government-sponsored enterprises ("GSEs"), asset managers, and several large bank and non-bank servicers including Ocwen and RITM. We believe we are one of only a few providers with a broad suite of servicer solutions, nationwide coverage and scalability. Further, we believe we are well positioned to gain market share from existing and new customers as they consolidate to larger, full-service providers or outsource services that have historically been performed in-house.

Origination:

Through our offerings that support mortgage loan originators (or other similar mortgage market participants), we provide a suite of solutions and technologies to meet the evolving and growing needs of lenders, mortgage purchasers and securitizers. We are focused on growing business from our existing customer base, attracting new customers to our offerings and developing new offerings. We have a customer base that includes the Lenders One cooperative members, which includes independent mortgage bankers, credit unions, and banks, as well as bank and non-bank loan originators. We believe our suite of services, technologies and unique access to the members of the Lenders One mortgage cooperative position us to grow our relationships with our existing customer base by growing membership of Lenders One, increasing member adoption of existing solutions and developing and cross-selling new offerings. Further, we believe we are well positioned to gain market share from existing and new customers as customers and prospects look to Lenders One to help them improve their profitability and better compete.



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Table of Contents Corporate and Others includes Pointillist (sold on December 1, 2021), interest expense and costs related to corporate functions including executive, infrastructure and certain technology groups, finance, law, compliance, human resources, vendor management, facilities, risk management and eliminations between reportable segments. We developed the Pointillist business through our consumer analytics capabilities. On December 1, 2021, the shareholders of Pointillist sold all of the equity interests in Pointillist to Genesys Cloud Services, Inc. for $150.0 million. On a fully diluted basis, we owned approximately 69% of the equity of Pointillist. After working capital and other applicable adjustments, we received approximately $106.0 million from the sale of our Pointillist equity and the collection of outstanding receivables, with $102.2 million received at closing, approximately $0.3 million deposited into the Working Capital Escrow and approximately $3.5 million deposited into the Indemnification Escrow. The Working Capital Escrow was received on May 9, 2022.

COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020, various governmental entities and servicers implemented unprecedented foreclosure and eviction moratoriums, forbearance programs and loss mitigation measures to help mitigate the impact to borrowers and renters. As a result of these measures and other related actions, industrywide foreclosure initiations were 89% lower for the nine months ended September 2021 compared to the same pre-COVID-19 period in 2019 and foreclosure sales were 79% lower for the same periods. The Federal government's foreclosure moratorium expired on July 1, 2021 and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ("CFPB's") temporary loss mitigation measures expired on December 31, 2021. Despite the expiration of such governmental measures, we believe servicers are proceeding slowly with foreclosure initiations for borrowers in default. Industrywide foreclosure initiations were 386% higher for the nine months ended September 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, although still 45% lower than the same pre-COVID-19 period in 2019. Industrywide foreclosure sales were 45% higher for the nine months ended September 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, although still 69% lower than the same pre-COVID-19 period in 2019. The decline in foreclosure initiations and foreclosure sales throughout the pandemic, partially offset by the restart of the default market, significantly decreased default related referrals to Altisource and continues to negatively impact virtually all of Altisource's default related services revenue.

At the same time, beginning in March 2020 the Federal Reserve lowered the target for the federal funds rate to 0% to 0.25% and bought billions of dollars of mortgage backed securities on the secondary market to reduce interest rates. As a result of the lower interest rate environment, mortgage originations were 25% higher for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the same period in 2020 (according to the Mortgage Bankers Association) driving higher demand for origination related services. In November of 2021, the Federal Reserve began reducing the volume of mortgage backed securities it was purchasing and ended its monthly purchases in March 2022. Additionally, the Federal Reserve increased the target for the federal funds rate several times in 2022, most recently to 3.75% to 4.00% in November 2022. As a result of the higher interest rate environment, mortgage originations were 46% lower for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 (according to the Mortgage Bankers Association).

We cannot predict the duration of the pandemic and future governmental and industry measures. Based on the expirations of the Federal government's foreclosure and eviction moratoriums and the CFPB's rules on temporary loss mitigation measures, we believe the demand for our Default business will grow. We estimate that in today's environment it typically takes on average two years to convert foreclosure initiations to foreclosure sales and six months to market and sell the REO. Due to this timing, we anticipate that our later stage foreclosure auction and REO asset management services will not fully benefit from the early 2022 higher foreclosure initiations until late 2023 or early 2024. We further anticipate that despite the forecasted decline in origination volumes in 2022 compared to 2021 and increases in the target federal funds rate, our Lenders One business within our Origination segment may outperform the market for the full year compared to 2021 from new customer wins, and cross selling existing and new offerings to customers that are intended to help reduce their costs.

During 2021 and 2022, to address lower revenue, we worked to (1) reduce our cost structure, (2) maintain the infrastructure to deliver default related services for our customer base and support the anticipated increase in demand following the expiration of the moratoriums and forbearance plans and CFPB's rules on temporary loss mitigation measures, (3) grow Lenders One membership, launch new solutions and increase customer adoption of our solutions to accelerate the growth of our origination business, and (4) generate cash from the 2021 sale of Pointillist.

Share Repurchase Program

On May 15, 2018, our shareholders approved the renewal and replacement of the share repurchase program previously approved by the shareholders on May 17, 2017. Under the program, we are authorized to purchase up to 4.3 million shares of our common stock, based on a limit of 25% of the outstanding shares of common stock on the date of approval, at a minimum price of $1.00 per share and a maximum price of $500.00 per share, for a period of five years from the date of approval. As of September 30, 2022, approximately 2.4 million shares of common stock remain available for repurchase under the program. There were no purchases of shares of common stock during the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021. Luxembourg



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Ocwen Related Matters

During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, Ocwen was our largest customer, accounting for 40% of our total revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 (45% of our revenue for the third quarter of 2022). Additionally, 6% of our revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 was earned on the loan portfolios serviced by Ocwen, when a party other than Ocwen or the mortgage servicing rights ("MSRs") owner selected Altisource as the service provider.

Ocwen has disclosed that it is subject to a number of ongoing federal and state regulatory examinations, consent orders, inquiries, subpoenas, civil investigative demands, requests for information and other actions and is subject to pending and threatened legal proceedings, some of which include claims against Ocwen for substantial monetary damages. Previous regulatory actions against Ocwen have subjected Ocwen to independent oversight of its operations and placed certain restrictions on its ability to acquire servicing rights. Existing or future similar matters could result in adverse regulatory or other actions against Ocwen. In addition to the above, Ocwen may become subject to future adverse regulatory or other actions.

Ocwen has disclosed that RITM is its largest client. As of June 30, 2022, approximately 18% of loans serviced and subserviced by Ocwen (measured in unpaid principal balance) were related to RITM MSRs or rights to MSRs.

The existence or outcome of Ocwen regulatory matters or the termination of the RITM sub-servicing agreement with Ocwen may have significant adverse effects on Ocwen's business and/or our continuing relationship with Ocwen. For example, Ocwen may be required to alter the way it conducts business, including the parties it contracts with for services, it may be required to seek changes to its existing pricing structure with us, it may lose its non-GSE servicing rights or subservicing arrangements or may lose one or more of its state servicing or origination licenses. Additional regulatory actions or adverse financial developments may impose additional restrictions on or require changes in Ocwen's business that could require it to sell assets or change its business operations. Any or all of these effects and others could result in our eventual loss of Ocwen as a customer or a reduction in the number and/or volume of services they purchase from us or the loss of other customers.

If any of the following events occurred, Altisource's revenue could be significantly reduced and our results of operations could be materially adversely affected, including from the possible impairment or write-off of goodwill, intangible assets, property and equipment, other assets and accounts receivable:

•Altisource loses Ocwen as a customer or there is a significant reduction in the volume of services they purchase from us

•Ocwen loses, sells or transfers a significant portion of its GSE or Federal Housing Administration servicing rights or subservicing arrangements or remaining other servicing rights or subservicing arrangements and Altisource fails to be retained as a service provider

•The contractual relationship between Ocwen and RITM changes significantly, including Ocwen's sub-servicing arrangement with RITM expiring without renewal, and this change results in a change in our status as a provider of services related to the RITM MSRs or rights to MSRs

•Ocwen loses state servicing licenses in states with a significant number of loans in Ocwen's servicing portfolio

•The contractual relationship between Ocwen and Altisource changes significantly or there are significant changes to our pricing to Ocwen for services from which we generate material revenue

•Altisource otherwise fails to be retained as a service provider

Management cannot predict whether any of these events will occur or the amount of any impact they may have on Altisource. We are seeking to diversify and grow our revenue and customer base and we have a sales and marketing strategy to support these efforts. Moreover, in the event one or more of these events materially negatively impact Altisource, we believe the variable nature of our cost structure would allow us to realign our cost structure to address some of the impact to revenue and that current liquidity would be sufficient to meet our working capital, capital expenditures, debt service and other cash needs. There can be no assurance that our plans will be successful or our operations will be profitable.



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Factors Affecting Comparability

The following items impact the comparability of our results:

•Industrywide foreclosure initiations were 386% higher for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 as the foreclosure market begins to normalize following the Federal government's foreclosure moratorium expiration on July 1, 2021 and the CFPB's temporary loss mitigation measures expiration on December 31, 2021.

•Industrywide foreclosure sales were 45% higher for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, compared to the same period in 2021.

•Industrywide mortgage originations were 46% lower for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 resulting from a higher interest rate environment.

•On December 1, 2021 the shareholders of Pointillist, a majority owned subsidiary of Altisource, sold all of the equity interests in Pointillist. For the three and nine months ended 2021, service revenue from Pointillist was $1.9 million and $3.4 million, respectively, and loss before income taxes and non-controlling interest was $1.9 million and $6.3 million, respectively (no comparative amounts for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022).

•The Company recognized an income tax (provision) benefit of $(2.2) million and $(1.9) million for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively ($0.2 million and $(0.4) million for the third quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively). The income tax (provision) benefit for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 was driven by income tax expense on transfer pricing income from India, income tax benefit from losses in the United States, no tax benefit on the pretax loss from our Luxembourg operating company and uncertain tax positions.



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