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Private equity and insurance companies piling into residential mortgages

Housing Wire

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. The current stress in the CRE and C&I loan markets further highlights the advantages of residential mortgages.

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‘There will be bank failures,’ Fed chief tells lawmakers

Housing Wire

In remarks made Thursday to the Senate Banking Committee this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects some U.S. banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. There will be bank failures, but not the big banks.”

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First Federal Bank to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp.

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Florida-based First Federal Bank announced on Thursday that it struck a deal to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp., First Federal Bank has 25 branches in the Southeast and operations in the Midwest, including mortgage centers in Jacksonville, Florida ; Alpharetta, Georgia; Madison, Wisconsin; and Overland Park , Kansas.

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DataDigest: Office debt is stressing banks. That matters for mortgages.

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The rapid collapse of four regional banks that began last March shocked regulators and investors alike. The banks had courted high-net-worth clients working in speculative tech and crypto startups in Silicon Valley, while also tying up a large portion of the banks’ assets in Treasury securities. By the end of Feb.

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US Bank imposes mortgage layoffs

Housing Wire

Bank , the fourth-largest U.S. Bank, we make decisions that position us well for today’s market and in the future,” a spokesperson told HousingWire. “As Bank, owned by U.S. However, mortgage volume has been in free fall at the bank amid surging rates. The bank’s total mortgage origination volume reached $9.6

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CFPB orders Bank of America to pay $12M for submitting false mortgage data

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) imposed a $12 million penalty on Bank of America (BofA) for violating federal laws by submitting false mortgage lending information for about four years, it announced on Monday. mortgage lender, Charlotte-based BofA had $229 billion in outstanding residential mortgages on its books through Sept.

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Patriot Bank to pay $1.9M to settle DOJ’s redlining accusations

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Tennessee-based community bank Patriot Bank agreed to pay $1.9 The DOJ alleged that from 2015 through at least 2020, Patriot avoided providing mortgage services to majority- Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee and discouraged people seeking credit in those communities from obtaining home loans.

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