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Staffing cuts affected employees in the reverse-mortgage lender's retail and corporate units, the company confirmed.

Besides allegations of trade secret theft, HMAC is accusing rival OCMBC and Michael Turturro of stealing the branding around its Jet Mortgage division.

St. John's Lutheran Church in Madison is redeveloping its property to build affordable housing blocks from the Capitol in the booming East Washington corridor.

Both purchases and refinances dipped as rates failed to help borrowers, but government lending picked up a rising share of loan volume, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Sandro DiNello, who briefly led New York Community Bancorp amid turmoil earlier this year, is staying on the company's board. But Joseph Otting, the company's recently installed CEO, is taking on the executive chairman position.

The long-troubled lender owes at least $40 million to mortgage industry counterparties and tax collectors, it said.

On top of cratering origination figures, the company faces lawsuits from counterparties over nonpayment.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a new circular that it's still watching for attempts to get borrowers to sign away rights that can't be waived.

A proposal from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend the same protections as credit cards to the fast-growing BNPL industry aims to protect consumers, but it could also stunt the nascent industry's growth, experts say.

Megan Moody, CPA, is a managing director and Nashville market leader at the consulting firm Embark. After earning a masters degree in accounting from Belmont University in Nashville, she spent two years in the audit practice at Ernst & Young and then almost 15 years in the health care industry working at both public and private companies.