Employee terminations

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from firing more CPFB employees and said the White House could not delete or destroy any of the bureau's data or databases.

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.

The cuts are part of a broader effort to trim expenses by roughly $3 billion a year by 2020.

Ditech will eliminate 450 positions when it closes its Rapid City, S.D., call center late next year, as the company seeks to regain profitability after emerging from bankruptcy.

Chicago-based mortgage lender Guaranteed Rate has laid off about 180 employees around the country — including about 30 in Chicago — after the amount of new mortgage loans the company funded dipped in 2017.

Dozens of workers at the Frederick, Md., office of First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. will be out of work after layoffs were announced, but the office won't close as initially reported by a state agency.

Walter Investment Management Corp. is in danger of having its stock delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as its average market capitalization remains below required minimums.

Nearly 10% of Walter Investment Management Corp.'s employees will lose their jobs after it closes Ditech's Irving, Texas, office, a notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission said.

Walter Investment Management Corp. will close its Ditech subsidiary's Irving, Texas, office by the end of 2017, according to an internal memo. It's the first step in an effort to ultimately reduce Walter's physical footprint from 13 offices to as few as four.