All of UMortgage's roughly 275 employees will stay on, including its 246 loan officers and CEO Anthony Casa, who previously had public rifts with Mike Kortas.
Fast tracking closing and funding is the critical differentiator among lenders, the 2026 Mortgage-Home Equity Scorecard report from Keynova found.
The latest investor statements show the persistence of a trend in which one vintage has a higher rate of distress than others, Morningstar DBRS finds.
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To manage systemic risks, Congress must give large IMBs a single federal regulator and emergency liquidity backstops, according to NewRez's SVP of Policy.
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Iran war and the AI-credit unwind signal higher-for-longer rates, wider spreads, forced cost cuts industrywide, writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.
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As written, new capital standards for U.S. banks fail to account for the additional risk posed by many home loan clients who obtain second mortgages. Fixing the problem will significantly reduce the rule's benefit to banks.
Here are the 50 most prolific mortgage originators in the U.S. as measured by units produced, according to the 2026 National Mortgage News Top Producers survey.
Here are the 50 women who did the most dollar volume for the previous 12 months in this year's Top Producers survey.
Banks and credit unions are pairing AI-driven efficiency with stable staffing and cross-training to scale mortgage production as originations rebound and technology expands capacity.
More mortgage professionals told National Mortgage News they expect their companies to hire, or stand pat, rather than fire workers this year.
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Bond investors will zero in on Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech this week, with a further selloff in long-dated Treasuries at stake as markets look for clues on the Federal Reserve chairman's response to persistent inflation and fiscal concerns.
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The company once known as Voxtur Analytics reset its path to focus on valuations since its own acquisition by Hale Capital Management, CEO Ryan Marshall said.
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Some of the jobs were eliminated due to the increasing capability of artificial intelligence and the departures were all involuntary, an official said.
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This was the second acquisition Luminate's mortgage arm has made since the start of 2025. The bank bought NJ Lenders Corp. in April of last year.
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A group of community development financial institutions are asking a federal court in California to compel Treasury to disburse funds from the CDFI Fund before they expire in September.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it will stop publishing consumer complaint narratives, citing concern that the information is one-sided.
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UPCOMING LIVESTREAMThursday, September 17, 20261:00 p.m. / 10:00 a.m.Jeffrey Cleveland, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Payden & Rygel, will discuss the FOMC meeting, the new SEP and Chair Warsh's press conference.
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