Obituaries

The visionary co-founded electronic signature company SignOnline in 1999, a year before legislation legalized e-signatures at the federal level.

The industry legend turned around a struggling Minneapolis company and even escaped a kidnapping to build the firm that is now the nation’s fifth-largest bank.

The former No. 2 at Countrywide had been battling brain cancer prior to passing away from the coronavirus.

Johnson led Fannie in the 1990s and played an advisory role in President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

He co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance, Public Advocates and the Greenlining Institute.

Terry Wakefield, a technology consultant who helped launch Fannie Mae's mortgage-backed securities business and form Prudential Home Mortgage, has died. He was 70.

Sandler and his wife, Marion, built a small California thrift into a powerhouse before selling it to Wachovia prior to the housing collapse, but were heavily criticized for engaging in some of the same practices that caused the financial crisis.

Robert Klein, the son of Holocaust survivors who went on to build an empire in the property preservation industry, died on May 3. He was 65.

Jeffrey Taylor, a former Wells Fargo reverse mortgage executive and founder of Wendover Funding, has died following a battle with cancer.

Laurie Maggiano, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's program manager for servicing and secondary markets, died on Sunday.