Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

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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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A pending merger with a New York bank boasting $58 billion in assets, once finalized, promises to further bolster Flagstar’s activity in the private-label space in the year ahead. Troy, Michigan-based Flagstar, a federal savings bank with some $27 billion in assets, and New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) announced plans to merge in April.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Accused of redlining by regulators, First National Bank of Pennsylvania (FNB) has agreed to settle the case for $13.5 FNB was involved in the case as a successor in interest of Yadkin Bank , which it acquired in 2017. In addition, the bank discouraged these customers from obtaining home loans, according to the complaint.

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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

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week’s above-consensus inflation figures brought the mortgage market back to a sour reality: The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate, an index closely watched by industry experts, may be close to or even above the 7% level for longer than previously expected. Last week, the U.S. in March compared to a year earlier.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

Flagstar Bank , a top-25 U.S. Flagstar made news in recent months, expanding its footprint and further diversifying its business model with the completion of the merger with New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) and the acquisition of certain financially and strategically complementary parts of Signature Bank.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Two months after receiving the Federal Reserve ’s approval to merge with New York Community Bank, Michigan-based Flagstar Bank is reducing its footprint in the retail channel and laying off hundreds of staffers, according to laid off employees. “I A spokesperson for Flagstar Bank did not respond to a request for comments on Thursday.

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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). We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.” Change’s membership will become effective upon its acquisition of the required $7 million capital stock in the FHLB-SF.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

California-based Pennymac Financial Services has hired Kristy Dickey, a former executive at Citizens Bank, as first vice president of TPO sales. market share in the TPO space. Dickey will be responsible for growing the lender’s broker division and support its brokers and non-delegated partners, the firm said.

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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. A potential pause on the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate hikes may bring borrowers on the sidelines back to the market, as mortgage rates could fall even further.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) announced this week that it has added four bank statement loan offerings for self-employed borrowers. To qualify for loans of up to $3 million with up to 90% loan-to-value (LTV), self-employed borrowers can now provide bank statements to verify income rather than tax returns, W2s or pay stubs.

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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. The EnerBank team, led by Charlie Knadler, will join Regions as part of its consumer banking group reporting to Peters. The space remains dominated by depository banks.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. It will also include the company’s local traditional consumer mortgage and construction-to-permanent businesses.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

banks has agreed to make $30 billion in deposits at First Republic Bank to avoid another regional bank failure. This show of support by a group of large banks is most welcome, and demonstrates the resilience of the banking system,” Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Bank will contribute $1 billion each.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Dallas-based Comerica Bank has decided to “organically exit” the mortgage banker finance business following the tumult in the banking industry that threatened the nation’s top warehouse lenders. The bank expects to improve its loan-to-deposit ratio by 150 basis points by the end of 2023. The bank had $1.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

financial institutions — and resulted in the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. But what is there to expect ahead for the housing market? Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.60% as of March 16, down 13 basis points from the previous week. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. was open for business.

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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. “The U.S. The extent of these effects is uncertain. A number of financial institutions in the U.S. in December.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has decided, in a “gradual and orderly” move, to sell a portfolio of $114 billion in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) it retained after seizing control of failed regional banks Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). To illustrate, SVB failed to raise capital to plug a $1.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

First Federal Bank will acquire the mortgage division of BNC National Bank , which will give the Florida-headquartered community-based bank a nationwide consumer direct mortgage platform. The purchase, which includes the bank’s consumer-direct technology platform, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

The Federal Reserve , Federal Depository Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , which together regulate large depository banks, are expected to unveil the proposed changes on July 27. The regulators want smaller banks to be able to better compete with larger peers, Bloomberg reported.

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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 layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff.

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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. The whole idea is to just broaden distribution.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank , which has warehouse lending operations located in Hamilton, New Jersey, is listed as the largest unsecured creditor in the FGMC Chapter 11 case — with a claim of $25 million, court pleadings show. Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc., $1.4 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC , $965,803. Sourcepoint Inc.,

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

Houston-based nonbank mortgage lender Cornerstone Home Lending is buying Roscoe State Bank , a traditional depository bank headquartered in Roscoe, Texas. The merged organization is to be known as Cornerstone Capital Bank, and the mortgage division will continue to be known as Cornerstone Home Lending. It funded $4.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The challenges in today’s mortgage market have caused many originators to expand their loan product offerings outside of qualified mortgage (QM) criteria set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In addition to stealth underwriting skills, it is imperative to respond to changes in the market proactively.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar originated $15.7 billion in mortgages in 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

Toronto-based TD Bank Group and Memphis, Tenn.-based billion, would have led to TD Bank acquiring First Horizon, facilitating TD Bank’s broader entry into the U.S. billion, would have led to TD Bank acquiring First Horizon, facilitating TD Bank’s broader entry into the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Recent data from Inside Mortgage Finance shows a significant leap in broker market share, jumping to 24.3% The increased awareness around these benefits have positioned brokers to be the obvious choice when it comes to consumer mortgage needs, keeping them competitive with large banks and retail lenders.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blend Builder – an initiative that started about four years ago and launched in March 2023 – is a cloud banking platform designed to help businesses in the financial services industry streamline processes for mortgages, loans, deposits and accounts. “We To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. percentage points in early December, when historically that spread has ranged between 1 to 2 percentage points.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

nonbank mortgage lenders continue to gain market share as the industry consolidates and a number of smaller players exit the space due to a lack of strong franchises to retain sufficient volume, Fitch Ratings reported Tuesday. billion in purchase originations in 2023, up 4% from 2022 and good for a market share of nearly 8%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

But while rates have dropped, the housing market has continued to be challenged by low inventory levels. “The 10-year yield has been stuck in a range for 2023, and as the crisis slowed down in terms of headlines, the bond market channel stayed in line,” Logan Mohtashami, lead analyst at HousingWire, said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Los Angeles-headquartered City National Bank agreed to pay $31 million in relief to impacted individuals and communities to settle a redlining case with the U.S. Consequently, other banks received more than six times as many applications in these neighborhoods in Los Angeles County than City National each year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

Bond yields and rates started to rise as the debt ceiling was getting closer and closer, and we have had such big bond market auctions to deal with that pushed yields higher, even after a tame inflation report,” Mohtashami said. up from March’s projection at 3.3%; core PCE inflation at 3.9% by the year-end, a drop from the projected 4.5%

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