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Minorities are still charged more for mortgages when all other applicable credit factors are equal — both in person and online, according to a new study by the University of California, Berkeley.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Nov. 16.

Wells Fargo will lay off 1,000 workers primarily from its mortgage unit in the first major round of a previously announced plan to cut the bank's workforce by as much as 10% over the next three years.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Nov. 9.

Walker & Dunlop acquired commercial mortgage banker iCap Realty Advisors as part of its strategic plan to increase its annual originations by at least one-third in the next two years.

Hiring by nonbank mortgage lenders and brokers ebbed in September as the housing market prepares to pack it in for the colder months.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Nov. 2.

The housing finance agency, which is increasingly at the forefront of reform discussions, has been without a permanent chief for almost two years.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 26.

Hope Hardison, Wells Fargo's chief administrative officer since 2015, and David Julian, its chief auditor since 2012, have both been removed from the bank's operating committee and begun leaves of absence in the latest fallout from the bank's phony-accounts scandal.