Long-time company veteran Joe Tyrrell is leaving and will be replaced on March 1 by Timothy Bowler, the president of ICE Benchmark Administration.

The company reportedly hired Truist to broker the loan origination system, which observers have been saying all along would have to happen.

Executives at the company said building special-servicing capacity will help the company brace itself for a potential change in the credit cycle.

The publicly traded acquirer is looking to grow market share by selectively purchasing companies to beef up its influence in certain regions.

In just the first few weeks of the year at least 10 transactions have taken place.

The private mortgage insurer is purchasing Agents National and Boston National from Incenter, which itself is a unit of Finance of America.

The California-based lender announced an asset purchase of Lend Smart Mortgage, which has close to 30 branches nationwide.

The bank holding company is taking the business purpose lender into the corporate fold and out of its own silo, executives said.

He replaces Phyllis Caldwell, the former Treasury official who took the position in February 2016 and helped guide the company through the 2017 federal and state lawsuits.

A panel discussion with executives from Boston Consulting Group reinforced the view that regulators will allow the deal to proceed, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said.