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Thomas O'Brien will take the helm at Sterling Bancorp, which is dealing with internal control issues and probes by the OCC and Justice Department into its mortgage operations.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 29.

University Bancorp decided to shutter its wholesale mortgage lending business after it struggled to hire and train employees remotely.

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have relaunched existing websites to provide COVID-19 tools to borrowers and servicers.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 22.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 15.

Hiring by nonbank mortgage and brokers held up unusually well through the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in March, but April's all-time high in unemployment suggests that's unlikely to last.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 8.

Financial institutions have been monitoring workers' productivity at home with tracking software and webcams. Now they're mulling whether to mandate contact-tracing apps, COVID-19 testing and other practices that could raise further privacy issues.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending May 1.