Alternative investment manager Pretium plans to buy Deephaven, a residential mortgage-backed securities issuer that operates outside the qualified mortgage market, from Varde Partners.

The Indiana company, which has an acquisition pending, will make more loans in minority neighborhoods around Indianapolis.

Ally wants to increase productivity and improve the use of analytics to build on customer relationships.

Many community banks have given up on national mortgage platforms as not worth the effort, but organizers of NXG Bank in Maryland say they have a plan to make one work.

Covius Holdings plans to buy several businesses from Chronos Solutions that support mortgage servicing and origination processes, including three delivery platforms that will increase the breadth of its technology offerings.

Mortgage company merger and acquisition activity should continue to increase in 2019 as loan production costs rise and originations stay flat.

Many banks have already scaled back home lending or even left the business. With profit margins shrinking, inventories of homes at crisis levels and competition from nonbanks intensifying, that’s unlikely to change.

After years of expansion as a public company, Ellie Mae went private and cut 10% of its workforce. But new ways to grow lie ahead, according to CEO Jonathan Corr.

Activist investor Blue Lion, which has been waging a campaign for changes at HomeStreet Bank, is pressing the Seattle-based company to consider selling its Fannie Mae multifamily mortgage operations.

Freedom Mortgage's acquisition of RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing gives it a major subservicer and will increase the Mount Laurel N.J.-based company's mortgage servicing rights portfolio by nearly 44%.