Practice and client management

Bank of the West is using alternative data and the international expertise of its parent company to tap into the lucrative but difficult to underwrite market of middle- and upper-class immigrant mortgage borrowers.

First Savings Financial in Indiana and Dime Community in New York are keen on making more SBA loans as a way to diversify revenue and generate fees through loan sales.

The median time it took a home listed for sale to go into contract was 40 days in April, the fastest since Redfin started tracking this data in 2010.

The majority of mortgage lenders don't expect to use chatbots to communicate with clients anytime soon, the results of a Fannie Mae survey said.

The time needed to close a mortgage improved nine days since the start of the year as the market has shifted to doing more purchase loans.

The German bank posted two consecutive years of losses partly because of misconduct fines tied to the Libor and other scandals.

Stilwell Group, an activist investor, is alleging that HopFed chief John Peck bought two properties from the then-chairman of the Kentucky company's compensation committee and that the deals were a conflict of interest.

Cities in the South are more affordable for first-time homebuyers because of less competition and lower prices, according to Zillow.

JPMorgan Chase will give its Sapphire credit card customers 100,000 rewards points for closing home-purchase loans with the bank.

While consumers pay for mortgage insurance policies, carriers like Arch MI are forging new relationships with real estate agents and strengthening lender partnerships to reach the growing segment of millennial and low-to-moderate-income homebuyers.

Concerns over rising home prices tempered a 2.2 percentage point increase in Fannie Mae's Home Price Sentiment Index.

Mortgage credit availability declined in April as lenders cut back on the number of conforming products they offered.

Many loan officers don't have an online presence, and a lot of those who do have neglected to correct errors and inaccuracies in key information, technology vendor Yext finds.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Northeast.

Chaos broke out periodically as investors and activists spoke out against the board, at times yelling or choking back emotion.

Shareholders voted to re-elect 12 board members and elect three more nominated by the company, but the slim margins sent a clear message.

Learn how some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the South.

Executives at BB&T, KeyCorp and Citizens are milking commercial lending niches and balancing cost control with new investments while waiting for more rate hikes to fatten margins.

Learn how the some of the industry's most successful loan originators get it done with these tricks of the trade from the 2017 Top Producers rankings' top 20 loan officers of the Midwest.

Wintrust’s mortgage revenues fell in the first quarter, but net interest income picked up the slack.