Consumer lending

BOK Financial plans to exit the correspondent lending channel by the end of the year because of increased competition and low rates.

Ares Commercial Real Estate's net income slipped slightly in the second quarter as the company prepares to sell its mortgage banking subsidiary.

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Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. has launched an employee stock ownership plan.

From working with homebuyers and seeing them through various milestones like raising a family, loan officer Dianne Crosby is in awe of the role she plays in helping clients reach their goals.

Guild Mortgage and FirstREX are lifting the curtain on a down payment investment program.

Impac Mortgage Holdings reported a year-over-year drop in net income during the second quarter as a more substantial loss on mortgage servicing rights and costs related to the CashCall Mortgage merger weighed on earnings.

By investing time early on with clients who may not be immediately ready for a mortgage, loan officer Becky Sandiland establishes relationships that generate future business.

First Community Mortgage, a subsidiary of First Community Bank in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has started a consumer direct lending operation working out of a new office in Cleveland.

Walter Investment Management Corp. subsidiary Ditech Financial plans to lay off more than 100 employees in North Carolina and Texas following declines in defaults across the country.

Republic First Bancorp in Philadelphia is getting into residential mortgages.

A drop in mortgage banking cut into Trustmark's second-quarter profit, as did the costs to extend buyouts to employees.

Technology developed by SmartZip analyzes 2,000 variables about a housing market and its homeowners to help real estate agents and lenders identify consumers most likely to sell their house or need a new mortgage.

Guaranteed Rate has begun offering 1% down payment mortgages through a new nationwide program.

Loan officers encounter a wide range of obstacles in the process of seeing a mortgage loan through to closing, but how many can spin silence into livestock?

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court decision that dismissed a lawsuit against Freddie Mac brought by a state pension fund.

The Mortgage Partnership Finance Direct program will now accept larger jumbo mortgages and a wider variety of products including hybrid adjustable rate mortgages, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago and Redwood Trust said Monday.The partners said that the program would accept jumbos of up to $2. 5 million, a boost from the previous $1.5 million limit.

Mortgage originations typically surge in a low-rate environment. Second-quarter reports should show an uptick in fees from selling those loans, but what will bankers say about the rest of this year?

Bank of America saw its mortgage banking income fall to $312 million in the second quarter from over $1 billion one year prior as it continues to keep more loans on its balance sheet instead of selling them in the secondary market.

Carmen Inclan of Raymond James Bank recognizes customers are happiest, and business booms, when communication is prioritized.