Chuck Klein, managing director for Mortgage Banking Solutions, agrees that most of the coming M&A activity will center on small- and medium-sized shops.

The findings were based on results supplied by 359 residential originators.

Portfolio holdings of mortgages also have increased at a faster rate for smaller banks than larger ones.

In partnership with former Lehman Brothers Managing Director Brian Libman, Blackstone is trying to carry out a “roll-up” strategy...

Chase was the second-ranked jumbo lender in the first quarter of 2015, nearly closing the wide gap that Wells Fargo has maintained in recent years.

The higher loan limit for the jumbo program will go into effect early in the third quarter.

We understand that a large pool of nonprime mortgage loans is looking for a home...

A federal appeals court in Chicago has set aside a $2.46 billion judgment against HSBC’s Household International unit and three of its top executives and ordered a new trial. Investors won the judgment in 2009 based on charges that the bank and its top executives misled them about its mortgage lending practices. The price of the stocks subsequently collapsed as the subprime mortgage market unraveled, causing huge investor losses. The class-action lawsuit alleged...

The biggest rate of decline was in home-equity securitizations, where there has been no new issuance for several years.

Since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ability-to-repay rule was implemented in January 2014, bank mortgage operations have grown as a whole, according to a new analysis of call-report data by Inside Nonconforming Markets. Retail originations, mortgage banking income and portfolio holdings at banks and thrifts have all increased since the first quarter of 2014, suggesting the ATR rule has done little to crimp mortgage activity by banks. Banks had $93.06 billion in retail originations ...