Once upon a time, in the third quarter of 2005, Countrywide Financial became the first company to amass a mortgage servicing portfolio of over $1 trillion. Just three years later, the company would be consumed by a hungry giant, Bank of America, which in the process became the first – and only – $2 trillion mortgage servicer. During the second quarter of 2013, BofA gave up its chair in the $1 trillion servicing club, reporting a 16.7 percent drop in its portfolio that left the company with “just” $988.6 billion in servicing. Since peaking at an industry record of $2.160 trillion at the end of 2009, BofA has managed to shrink its portfolio by a whopping 54.2 percent. The bank shed...[Includes one data chart]