Workforce management
Workforce management
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The latest headcount reduction impacted another office previously belonging to Computershare Mortgage Services, a servicing company Newrez acquired in May.
July 1 -
Leadership across all financial services was more likely to see a significant skills gap in today's workforce compared to the mortgage industry, according to Arizent's research.
June 20 -
The headcount reduction comes one month after more layoffs in Colorado and Florida.
June 10 -
With millions of Black and Hispanic consumers likely to become new homeowners over the coming decades, the lending community stands to benefit if they are willing to combine expanded underwriting with direct outreach.
June 10 -
In recent years, the wealth gulf between white and Black families has only grown. But there is hope that advances in fintech, such as wider adoption of artificial intelligence, can help.
June 6 -
Rocket Mortgage entered into an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and will pay the consumers $65,000 to resolve the matter.
May 13 -
The rightsizing measures impacted workers in Colorado and Florida who worked at acquired Computershare Mortgage Services and its affiliate Specialized Loan Servicing.
May 7 -
Plaintiffs seeking class certification claim the bank uses an underwriting system that discriminates against minority mortgage applicants.
April 30 -
Though written before the internet era, the book about working at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s that launched Michael Lewis' writing career still holds important lessons about the true costs of success.
April 30 -
Members of the LGBTQ community were most likely to have experienced housing bias, according to a Zillow survey, which also found many people don't recognize how fair lending laws could help.
April 25 -
As part of the settlement, Loandepot will beef up its appraisal policies and practices, it announced.
March 26 -
The Justice Department and the CFPB are increasingly relying on emails among employees that contain discriminatory comments to strengthen their hand in cases against lenders.
March 24 -
A mixed-race couple claims a "whitewashed" valuation in 2023 returned a price 39% higher than the depository-approved result a year earlier.
February 29 -
Across the nation, over 700,000 Black families are "income mortgage-ready," or able to spend 30% or less of their income on a home loan for the typical house in their local market.
February 23 -
Significantly more Americans own a home now than a decade ago, but the disparity between Black homeownership rates and those of other racial and ethnic groups has grown wider, according to the National Association of Realtors.
February 20 -
A look at Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data of similarly situated conforming applicants also finds some lenders' own comments for the rejection doesn't match up with the reason given, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said.
February 6 -
The company declined to provide an estimate of how many senior executives were impacted by the reduction and called it "a flattening of the organization."
February 1 -
Workers are eligible for the one-time cash grants if they earned a salary of less than $75,000 last year, and their total cash compensation was less than $85,000. The payments come amid a unionization push at the San Francisco-based megabank.
January 26 -
As part of a settlement with the Justice Department, Patriot Bank must invest more than $1 million of the total in a loan subsidy fund for minority homeowners and take other corrective steps in its everyday business. The bank denied any wrongdoing.
January 17 -
After the Rhode Island-based company eliminated 650 positions, severance-related costs contributed to a 71% decline in quarterly net income.
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