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In a quarterly earnings call, CEO Michael Nierenberg said the company was evaluating options and would likely file forms for a new public company in the near future.

MSR marks weighed down results again but by less than in the previous quarter as the company worked on offsets and restated some adjusted numbers.

Changes to loan-level price adjustments are perfectly consistent with the FHA's mission and with the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The government-sponsored enterprise improved slightly upon the previous quarter's numbers, but contraction in lending remains a risk.

Although the company reported a loss, executives expressed confidence in its funding and liquidity.

But the company's earnings were up due to lower loss provisions.

The neobank expects to turn a profit by the end of the year, but faces challenges as it copes with the government's pause on federal student loan repayment and with the difficulty of selling technology services to other businesses.

In an earnings call, the company said talks with depository institutions were already underway regarding potential residential loan sales.

The legislative proposals backed by Republican members of congress seek to undo the latest cross-subsidized adjustments to loan fees that two large government-related mortgage investors charge.

About $2.9 billion of the deposits the company obtained from the failed Signature Bank had fled as of last week, and executives are forecasting that number to double. However, they say they're "cautiously optimistic" they can lure some deposits back.

The latest estimates for its market share in third-party origination channels as others have exited is 17% for correspondent and 2.2% in wholesale.

Even as First Republic Bank has sunk deeper into crisis this week — falling as much as 49% on one day alone — shares of many of its peers, including names like PacWest Bancorp and UMB Financial, have mostly held steady.

The company recorded its first quarter of production-related sequential revenue growth in roughly two years, which supplemented its income from the servicer and real estate business line.

The company also has plans to bring on board $37 billion in subservicing contracts in line with its acquisition of Rushmore Loan Management Services.

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia have come up with a plan for letting banks innovate with artificial intelligence and widening access to credit at the same time.

The California bank, which endured large deposit outflows in March, anticipates selling its $2.7 billion lender finance portfolio in the coming months. It's also looking at cutting facilities, employee headcount and vendor costs.

Her statement calls out "a fundamental misunderstanding about the fees" following concerns expressed by two congressmen and others about their impacts.

Business owners or employees in this line of business can apply for a non-QM loan in 38 states that have legalized recreational or medical use of marijuana.

A couple small deals with some unusual regional concentration also are in the market and one broker says many billions of dollars more are in the pipeline.

The transaction is the second of its kind in the past six months and comes as the mortgage leaders take steps to develop document standardization that would ease electronic closings and trading of the home equity loans.