Richard H. Wohl has been named president of IndyMac Bank FSB, Pasadena, Calif., a newly created post that will oversee the primary business divisions of the bank's thrift and mortgage banking segments.Mr. Wohl, who was most recently chief executive officer of IndyMac Mortgage Bank, has also been elected to IndyMac Bank's board of directors. Frank M. Sillman will replace Mr. Wohl as CEO of the mortgage bank. Mr. Sillman was most recently CEO and executive vice president of the Mortgage Professionals Division of IndyMac Mortgage Bank. Michael W. Perry, chairman and CEO of IndyMac Bancorp Inc., the holding company for IndyMac Bank, said the mortgage bank under Mr. Wohl's leadership has grown from the 26th-largest single-family residential mortgage originator in the United States to the 11th-largest. The bank can be found online at http://www.indymacbank.com.
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The Arkansas-based company spent nearly four years on the M&A sidelines, grappling with asset quality issues and litigation tied to its 2022 acquisition of Texas-based Happy State Bank. Now it's signed a letter of intent to buy an unnamed bank.
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The company cited efforts to improve profitability behind its decision, with Popular joining a line of other banks in ending mortgage operations in 2025.
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The mortgage unit of Hilltop Holdings lost $7.2 million pretax in the third quarter with lower volume, following making a small profit three months prior.
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FHA loans accounted for about half of the annual rise in foreclosure starts and 80% of the rise in active foreclosures in September, according to ICE.
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The Federal Reserve Friday issued a set of proposed changes to its stress testing program for the largest banks that would disclose the central bank's back-end stress testing models, a move that the Fed had long opposed out of fear of making the tests easier for banks to pass.
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Robert Hartheimer's arrest comes at a time when the bank is trying to recover from a consent order and the Synapse mess.
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