When it comes to mortgage banking, Bank of America is heading for the turnstiles. Over the past 12 months it has exited wholesale and reverse lending, announced plans to downsize its servicing portfolio in a major way, and put its correspondent division on the auction block. In the process it has lost warehouse and correspondent executives to small upstarts such as PennyMac. But that's only part of the story. From what we've been told some of its top loan officers are sending out resumes en masse and we've interviewed a half-dozen or so B of A competitors who say they're getting plenty of telephone calls and resumes from the bank's retail originators and even senior account executives…
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The California-based lender announced Wednesday the addition of One Goal Mortgage, a branch serving the Omaha, Nebraska, metro area and Southwest Iowa.
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Better is focusing on its U.S. mortgage unit, which reported higher-than-expected preliminary loan volumes and priced a stock offering.
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A new Basel III proposal offers mixed results for warehouse lending, with some risk-weight relief for banks but tougher terms that could crimp credit availability for nonbank mortgage lenders.
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Roughly a third of homeowners with a mortgage rate less than 6% would not give up their rate for any reason, according to a survey of 1,000 mortgage holders.
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In other news, Better Mortgage completed warehouse renewals and Wolters Kluwer provided a new form of access to its digital vault platform for secured parties.
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A United Wholesale Mortgage executive stepped in to defend a claim against the company, as consumers pelt the industry with more spam call complaints.
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