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Pennymac Financial Services Imposes A New Round Of Layoffs
Pennymac Financial Services Imposes A New Round Of Layoffs Includes Specialists And Vice President Job Positions Pennymac Financial Services imposed a new round of layoffs to its employees this week. This is ahead of its third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. The California based company had several rounds of layoffs this year. This includes 236 employees in…
Novad Management In Gambit To Keep HECM Contract With HUD
Novad Management Consulting Files Protest In Desperate Gambit To Keep HECM Contract With HUD Novad Management Consulting has held HUD’s HECM Assets contract since 2014. Unfortunately for them, Celink was awarded the contract to provide servicing for HECM loans earlier this year. However, Novad has filed a protest against the award of Compu-Link Corporation (Celink)…
Finance Of America Mortgage To Shut Down
Finance of America Companies Pulls The Plug On Finance Of America Mortgage After Being Unable To Sell Its Forward Mortgage Unit Finance of America Companies has decided to shut down Finance of America Mortgage. The board of directors made the decision following the demise of a deal to sell its retail mortgage division. The company…
Clear Capital Is Cutting 27 Percent Of Its Workforce
Clear Capital Is Terminating 378 Employees Including 108 In California By Christmas. This Equals 27% Of Its Workforce Techcrunch.com is reporting Nevada based Clear Capital is cutting 27% of its workforce. Clear Capital is one of the biggest real estate valuation and technology firm in the US. The company is also including 108 employees in…
Bank of America Mortgage Production Plummets 40 Percent
Bank of America Mortgage Production Plummeted From $14.5 Billion In The 2nd Quarter To $8.7 billion In 3rd Quarter Bank of America mortgage production plummeted to $8.7 billion in the 3rd quarter. However, it was not all bad news. The bank delivered increases in revenues and net income in the third quarter of 2022. This…
JPMorgan Chase 3rd Quarter Profits Plummet 17%
JPMorgan Chase 3rd Quarter Profits Plummet 17% But They Still Beat Analysts Expectations JPMorgan Chase 3rd quarter earnings report is full of a mixed news. The bad news is that the bank’s profits plummeted by 17%. Yet, the report indicated the bank faired better than analysts expectations even as its net income fell. The JPMorgan…
Wells Fargo 3rd Quarter Earnings Take A $2 Billion Hit
Legal Issues And falling Mortgage Originations Cause Wells Fargo 3rd Quarter Earnings Take A $2 Billion Hit Wells Fargo 3rd quarter earnings continued to take a hit from its legal problems. The slowing housing market also didn’t help. On Friday, the nation’s third-largest bank reported net income of $3.53 billion. This is 85 cents per diluted…
Summit Funding To Cut 72 Staff Members
Summit Funding Plans On Laying Off 36 Corporate Employees In Sacramento And 36 Remote Workers On November 23rd Summit Funding plans to make a round of layoffs in late November that will affect 72 employees. The California-based company wrote in it’s WARN filing: “With the demand for mortgage services falling to its lowest level in…
Angel Oak Home Loans Eliminates 15% Of It’s Retail Employees
Angel Oak Home Loans Sent Pink Slips To 57 Employees On Friday After Sister Company Laid Off 75 Employees Two Weeks Ago Angel Oak Companies instituted 57 layoffs at its retail mortgage company, Angel Oak Home Loans on Friday. Two weeks ago, the company cut 75 people from it’s workforce in its wholesale and correspondent…
loanDepot Brass Get Big Payday While Employees Lose 401(k)
loanDepot Brass Are Getting A Big Pay Raises While Employees Lose 401(k)s. Are Company Executives Cashing Out Before The Company Implodes? It looks like the loanDepot brass are cashing in and sticking it to employees. In an email last week, CEO Frank Martell reminded staffers that in times like these, there are “no easy answers.”…