United Financial Mortgage, Oak Brook, Ill., has agreed to purchase Plus Funding of Carlsbad, Calif., for an undisclosed amount.The acquisition of the privately held Plus Funding is the second franchise purchase by UFM in four months. Plus, a retail mortgage banker/broker, employs 66 and operates seven branches in Southern California and one in Nevada. According to figures compiled by the Quarterly Data Report, a MortgageWire affiliate, the publicly traded UFM funded $687 million in the third quarter, ranking 71st in the United States. (UFM's fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31.) Through the first seven months of the year, Plus originated $275 million in loans.
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A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
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Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
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The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
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A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
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The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
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The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
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