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Home » Short Takes: Commercial Bank in the Hunt for Mortgage M&A / Is LoanDepot #2? / Surviving Brands / Why Own When You Can Rent? / Essent’s Marzol to Retire
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Short Takes: Commercial Bank in the Hunt for Mortgage M&A / Is LoanDepot #2? / Surviving Brands / Why Own When You Can Rent? / Essent’s Marzol to Retire

November 13, 2014
Paul Muolo
We should point out that even though LoanDepot is doing the buying, the Mortgage Master brand name will survive. LD did the same thing when it combined forces with imortgage last year…
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