Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tennessee-based community bank Patriot Bank agreed to pay $1.9 Over the same six-year period, other banks received nearly 3.5 Patriot Bank denied any allegations of redlining. million to resolve allegations from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it engaged in redlining discriminatory practices.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

New Jersey-based TD Bank has decided to invest $10 billion in affordable homeownership initiatives by 2027, including providing loans and liquidity to the residential lending market. In the mortgage space, TD Bank was a top-35 U.S. The bank has presence in 15 states and Washington, D.C. TD Bank’s plan also includes $7.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). Change is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is certified by the U.S. We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ted Tozer, former president of Ginnie Mae during the Obama administration and current president Alanna McCargo’s most recent Senate-confirmed predecessor, applauded the news that the company is looking into the development of a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Security (HMBS) product. That’s all it says.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

government is seeking to sell $13 billion worth of mortgage bonds amassed after the failures of both Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this year. The bonds are secured by “long-term, low-rate” loans made primarily to developers of low-income multifamily apartment complexes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

government’s motion to stop the gathering of evidence in a case against Ginnie Mae , Texas Capital Bank (TCB) responded to the government’s attempt to dismiss the entirety of the bank’s complaint. TCB was thus left with no alternative but to file this action,” the bank concluded.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

based Regions Bank $2.95 The Board fined Regions “for its failure to effectively monitor a portfolio of home equity loans for compliance with flood insurance regulations due to changes in loan servicing platforms and third-party service providers,” noting that the bank had a pattern of individual violations of flood insurance regulations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last week after it lacked the liquidity to pay for clients’ withdrawals. That was a favorable development,” Deitch said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

announced on Tuesday the promotion of two leaders in its wholesale bank division. Austin, who joined Cenlar in 2005, will be responsible for managing and mitigating default costs for the wholesale bank’s loans and mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio. Its client base includes banks, credit unions, and mortgage bankers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

Guild Mortgage announced on Thursday the appointment of Lamont Watson as the company’s first vice president of diverse talent development. Improving talent development processes, including mentorship and career advancement opportunities, will be a key priority to attract and retain diverse talent, the company said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Stakeholders on all sides of the issues sounded off on the proposed changes to the federal redlining statute in comments to the banking agencies marshaling the changes. Those agencies oversee banks, and are tasked with ensuring banks do not redline , by enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Pink slips will arrive for 58 employees working in the mortgage business at Texana Bank in California, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) sent to the state’s Employment Development Department. The bank eliminated 72 mortgage jobs in Iowa across earlier layoffs.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To understand the dynamics of his new role, RMD sat down with Morales to learn more about his individual and company goals, including the potential for a large national bank to become involved in the reverse mortgage business for the first time since the early 2010s. national bank, a large bank [that is considering entering] reverse.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has decided to forge ahead in its fight against inflation, despite several bank closures that have caused turbulence in the financial markets. banking system is sound and resilient. Powell, however, said the weaknesses at SVB are not broadly present in the banking system. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Cadence Bancorporation , parent of Cadence Bank, reached separate settlements with the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency totaling over $8.5 The bank, based in Texas, also has branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee. Specifically, Cadence will provide $4.17

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

Ohio-headquartered Park National Bank will pay $9 million under a settlement with the U.S. The DOJ also claims that the bank failed to take any meaningful measures to compensate for its lack of physical presence in majority-Black and Hispanic communities. Park National Bank didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Last year, in a Housing Wire op-ed , Community Home Lenders of America took the lead nationally in opposing calls to extend the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to independent mortgage banks (IMBs). . Many community banks do a great job of mortgage lending to underserved homebuyers. So why would we extend it to IMBs?

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Banks Lending Loans Mortgages 335

Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last several years, non-bank mortgage originators have established a much larger market share. Additionally, non-bank servicers have more than doubled their ownership of servicing rights in the last 10 years. Student lending offers an entryway into consumer finance that non-bank originators have not had access to historically.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Regions Bank is looking to make a big dent in the home improvement lending space , striking a deal to acquire EnerBank USA for $960 million in cash. EnerBank says it works with 10,000 contractors and develops personalized loan programs for their clients. The space remains dominated by depository banks. billion in volume in 2020.

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Brownstoner

JULY 18, 2023

Bucking the trend of new faux affordable developments in north Brooklyn, a 14-story, 250-unit deeply affordable senior housing complex is planned for the corner of Grand Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

Truliant Federal Credit Union is the first Southeast financial institution to officially complete a transfer of an eNote – or an electronic promissory note – to Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta), as part of FHLBank Atlanta’s eNote pilot program, the lender said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2020

Gateway First Bank officially named Scott Gesell CEO and general counsel after serving as CEO on an interim basis since April 3. Before being named CEO, he was chief administrative officer and general counsel for the bank and has also held senior roles at Colorado National Bancorp , American Residential Communities and First Nationwide Bank.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

. “I can’t comment about any other fundraising, other than to say Better today is actually fundamentally profitable, with enviable profit margins and profit, not like startup-fuzzy-math-profit but actually like, the cash balance in your bank account goes up every month profit,” Garg said. billion a month in loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

In a newly released trends report, FinCEN highlighted more than $27 billion worth of “suspicious activity” across more than 155,000 filings of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data with FinCEN between June 15, 2022 and June 15, 2023. Department of the Treasury , is sounding the alarm over challenges faced by elder financial exploitation (EFE).

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Inman

JANUARY 31, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-based Fourth Capital Bank is the first to integrate Rocket’s digital mortgage application using a new platform developed by Q2 Software.

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Banks Mortgages Development 133

Propmodo

JANUARY 10, 2024

When seeking construction financing for major real estate projects, developers almost always turn to big banks. Large institutional capital has been one of the biggest lenders to commercial development projects over the past decades. Bank OZK has humble roots. In 2019, the bank inked one of its biggest deals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

“Lorraine is a powerhouse in the Manhattan luxury scene, boasting almost two decades of expertise and Kathy is synonymous with excellence and her extensive knowledge of Manhattan luxury and new developments across the city makes her an unstoppable force,” Kevelyn Guzman, regional vice president of Coldwell Banker Warburg, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have signed onto a memorandum of understanding to formally share information between each other related to nonbank mortgage companies. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2013. It also entered into a similar MOU with the U.S.

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Mortgages Finance Development Banks 332

Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure Technology Solutions will focus on developing and distributing its proprietary, technology-enabled platform to partners and investors in the home equity lending ecosystem, the fintech firm announced earlier this week. JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. — to take its lending division, LendCo , public.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors announced on Monday that Karen K. The CSBS is a national organization of state bank regulators that supervises U.S. banks and certain non-depository financial services. In that role, Lawson was responsible for coordinating public policy development and advocacy efforts.

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Banks Development Loans As-is 367

Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Configured to give independent mortgage banks, federally insured banks and credit unions the needed tools at an accessible price point, Floify Lender Edition aims to increase lender profitability through its automated processes and efficiency tools, the company said. .”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wisconsin: No proprietary but plenty of opportunity Cullen, who works at University Bank , explained that while he occasionally gets business opportunities from outside Wisconsin , he prefers to remain within his home state since he likes to conduct business face to face as much as possible.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Prior to his role with RMF, he was a senior executive in the reverse mortgage division at MetLife Bank , co-founder and co-president of EverBank Reverse Mortgage , and president of BNY Mortgage Co. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) loan counselors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) presented its annual Ken Markison Legacy Achievement award to Michael Eising, a vice president and mortgage compliance manager at Merchants Bank of Indiana. His overarching duty remains to steer the bank’s mortgage operations into full alignment with both federal and state legal mandates.

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Banks Mortgages Development Industrial 376

Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

The federal judge overseeing a case brought by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) against Ginnie Mae has dismissed a portion of the bank’s complaint against the government-owned company but will allow the majority of the case to progress, according to court filings reviewed by RMD. Presiding Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled in the U.S.

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Banks Title Development Equity 351

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rebecca Anderson, senior vice president of strategic communications and public relations at loanDepot, wrote to HousingWire that the company “enjoys a long history of attracting and developing top-notch talent and “we thank Mosi for her many contributions to loanDepot and wish her the best in the next chapter of her career.”

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