Banking

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the next segment of the list!

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the third segment of the list!

New Penn Financial has named Amy Brandt Schumacher president to oversee the company's information technology operations, along with all of its origination channels.

We're counting down the list of this year's 300 Top Producers. Who made the second segment of the list?

Prices of loans underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities were on the rise in January, according to DebtX.

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the first segment of the list!

The results of the 2016 Top Producers Survey reflect a year of booming business for loan officers, both in terms of the dollar volume and number of loans reported by each loan officer, as well as the tremendous response to the survey itself.

CIT Group, the commercial lender run by John Thain, found a material weakness in the accounting of a mortgage business, causing the company to delay the filing of its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has agreed to acquire Apollo Residential Mortgage.

Fannie Mae touted its financial support to the small multifamily loan market last year, saying it provided $1.6 billion in financing to the sector.

Citing rising cost and time constraints, PHH Corp. will stop internally building its retail originations business and instead focus on acquisitions and its joint venture with Realogy Corp., PHH Home Loans.

Mechanics Bank in Walnut Creek, Calif., has entered the residential mortgage market and hired a banker to lead the new loan group.

Despite dire predictions by banks and others that new mortgage rules by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would cut off access to credit, the industry is performing well two years after the regulations went into effect, according to the agency's top official.

Bank mortgage originations were up 7% in the fourth quarter of 2015, while the number of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.-insured institutions that deal primarily in mortgages dropped more than 9% from a year ago.

There is concern that a decline in condo pricing could create loan problems similar to those that cropped up before the financial crisis. Bankers in the area, however, believe foreign investors would take the biggest hit.

The Chicago, Des Moines and Cincinnati FHLBs have grown their life insurance company membership the most in recent years.

Caliber Home Loans has named former CitiMortgage head Sanjiv Das as its next chief executive.

These nine credit unions will implement Intuvo's mortgage automated marketing platform.

American International Group is expanding bets on property lending and safe fixed-income securities after hedge funds investments soured.

Flagstar Bancorp in Troy, Mich., has launched a national homebuilder lending platform.