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From a few employees at Hutchinson Credit Union who spent part of their day focusing on better servicing of local home mortgages, Member Mortgage Services has grown in just 13 years into a separate company with 37 employees.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 21.

Citi has named David Chubak as head of global retail banking and mortgage for the global consumer bank, replacing Jonathan Larsen, who resigned late last year.

American Financial Network has agreed to pay $5,000 to an unnamed person of Hispanic origin to settle a Fair Housing Act claim.

A Rochester, N.Y.-based mortgage company that leases space in Amherst, N.Y., is seeking tax breaks to subsidize a nearly $3 million purchase and upgrade of a shuttered bank branch two miles away in Clarence, N.Y.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 14.

Robotics and other forms of intelligent automation is already helping lenders and servicers increase capacity and redeploy staff to more customer-centric tasks.

Robotic process automation makes cumbersome loan manufacturing tasks more efficient and consistent, providing lenders and servicers with an opportunity to focus employees on activities that enhance the customer experience and increase capacity.

Embrace Home Loans created a digital marketing division as more potential customers are researching their lending options online.

Employment in the nondepository mortgage banker and broker sector fell for the second consecutive month in February, a possible sign of growing concern about shrinking demand for mortgages.