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Earnings per share fell a nickel short of estimates due in part to lower-than-expected revenue from the origination and sale of mortgages.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is accepting bids on behalf of an independent mortgage banker for a $326 million portfolio of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights.

Texas Capital Bancshares sharply reduced the size of its loan-loss provision as credit quality improved in its energy loan book. That helped the Dallas bank post a 77% rise in first-quarter profit.

The Mississippi company's first-quarter earnings rose 60% from a year earlier. Its results from last year were weighed down by a settlement with regulators.

Mortgage bankers' first-quarter earnings should be down from the fourth quarter in tandem with the reduction in origination volume.

Vladimir Putin is taking a page from the U.S. housing market to boost homeownership. Call it Russia's Fannie Mae.

Impac Mortgage Holdings sold $56 million of its common stock as part of a plan to securitize non-qualified mortgage loans.

Wintrust’s mortgage revenues fell in the first quarter, but net interest income picked up the slack.

The hand-wringing over business lending has overshadowed the fact that consumer lending — particularly for regional banks — has become a strong and steady engine of growth.

Bank of America's year-over-year loan growth was slow, but parts of its commercial and U.S. consumer businesses were strong, prompting optimism from the CEO in the face of lackluster numbers across banking so far this earnings season.