PennyMac is leaping into the wholesale-broker channel with its new Power platform as it eyes increased purchase-money and jumbo mortgage originations. The company’s enhanced production platform will provide mortgage brokers broad access to data, allowing them to proactively manage their pipelines, according to executives at the California-based firm. “Power is a proven, best-in-class platform,” said Kimberly Nichols, managing director of PennyMac’s ...
A data breach involving United Shore Financial Services and Xerox has prompted a class-action lawsuit from borrowers and a legal battle between the lender and the loan document software vendor. United Shore is the parent company of United Wholesale Mortgage, a major player in the wholesale channel. In 2011, United Shore was using BlitzDocs to process and store loan documents. At the time, the software program was operated by Xerox Mortgage Services. Al Leibovic, a borrower, filed ...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw a 27.2 percent surge in refinance business during the fourth quarter that helped offset an 8.3 percent drop in purchase-mortgage acquisitions, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities data. The wholesale-broker channel recorded a 7.4 percent increase in production during the fourth quarter, compared to smaller increases in retail (2.6 percent) and correspondent (6.0 percent) ... [Includes one data chart]
As a group, the largest bank mortgage lenders began reporting sagging mortgage originations in the fourth quarter, though the drop was hardly a disaster.
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