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Financial services firms are focusing on essential risk-related priorities, but must not lose sight of the importance of innovative technologies that drive business forward.

Despite the cloudy outlook for future interest rates and housing, the employer in fifth annual ranking have supported the workers who've kept them going by providing the transparency, recognition and in some cases innovative benefits.

The top five depositories have a combined second lien dollar volume of more than $88 billion as of September 30, 2022.

Lenders have focused on front-end cost differences since key secondary market players opened up the option, but what happens when a problem emerges down the road is worth weighing too.

Brett Dillenberg oversees six branches previously under the umbrella of LendUS that were acquired by the Ohio-based lender last year.

The government-sponsored enterprises will likely have their mainstay bonds exempted from the potential securitization-related rule, but their credit-risk transfers could be subject to it, some experts say.

The business is heavily reliant on mortgage originations and some participants are turning to other sources of income to bolster results.

Also, Guaranteed Rate adds to its network, Fairway spotlights reverse mortgages, PrimeLending names production leaders and Rithm Capital finds names a head of investor relations.

The demographic accounted for 9.2% of all mortgages in 2021 and is estimated to make up 56% of all new homeowners by 2030.

All six companies were profitable in the fourth quarter and the full year, but had far less new volume than in 2021.