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Wells Fargo conducts another round of layoffs in home lending business

Housing Wire

Wells Fargo , the largest depository mortgage lender in America, issued pink slips to employees in its home lending business on Tuesday following its decision to exit the correspondent channel. “I Wells Fargo’s correspondent lending business was already in a freefall.

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Northpointe Bank to shutter its correspondent lending business

Housing Wire

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Production declined 25% to $5.49 billion in 2022 from the previous year’s volume of $7.29

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Stronghill Capital shuts down consumer, correspondent lending

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Small-balance commercial lender Stronghill Capital shut down its nascent consumer and correspondent lending businesses late last week. He cited a difficult market and elevated rates as reasons for shutting down correspondent and consumer lending businesses , which were added in 2022.

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CFPB issues its final rule on small business lending

Housing Wire

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized the rule on small business lending, which fulfills a mandate from Congress and aims to increase transparency while mitigating discrimination. For decades, the government has assembled data pursuant to Congressional mandates on residential mortgages,” the CFPB said.

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Former Norcom reverse mortgage team moving to Supreme Lending

Housing Wire

The former reverse mortgage team from Norcom Mortgage in Avon, Connecticut — which elected not to move to CMG Financial following its acquisition of Norcom last month — has selected Texas-based Supreme Lending as its new home, with John Luddy serving as SVP of reverse lending. She absolutely checked all the boxes for us.

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Fifth Third Bank unveils new warehouse lending business

Housing Wire

Martin, Firth Third’s group head of mortgage warehouse finance, along with a team of warehouse lending professionals, will be based in Dallas. Warehouse lending offers short-term financing to mortgage bankers that provides interim liquidity until loans are sold or securitized in the secondary market.

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CFPB small business lending rule faces court challenges in multiple states

Housing Wire

A group of banks in Kentucky is seeking to block the implementation and enforcement of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s small business lending rule , the latest in a series of challenges brought by parties including legislators and industry groups.

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