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First National Bank of Pennsylvania settles redlining case for $13.5M

Housing Wire

FNB was involved in the case as a successor in interest of Yadkin Bank , which it acquired in 2017. The complaint alleges that, from 2017 through 2021, FNB failed to provide mortgage services to predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Top Fairway LO Dave Medina decamps for Movement Mortgage to spread his wings

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Top-producing loan officer Dave Medina and his team at the Temecula, California-based branch have left ​​ Fairway Independent Mortgage to join Movement Mortgage. Medina, who had been at Fairway since April 2017, said his team’s production is about $100 million annually.

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Cadence Bank reaches settlement with DOJ over redlining

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Cadence Bancorporation , parent of Cadence Bank, reached separate settlements with the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency totaling over $8.5 The lender’s offices were concentrated in white neighborhoods, and nearly all of its loan officers were white.

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Interfirst to lay off 140 employees

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issued pink slips to over 350 non-commissioned loan officers, a workforce reduction that former workers claimed to represent more than half of Interfirst’s entire staff. The company reduced its origination to $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. Six months ago Interfirst Mortgage Co.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

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will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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What a tech entrepreneur has discovered about reverse mortgages

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Anna Frankowska was recognized in 2017 as one of Forbes’ “ 30 Under 30 ” in Europe, having studied economics in London before moving to work in investment banking. But she quickly realized it is facing real challenges, and she began asking why it has not grown and developed to a place it could be. “I

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Interfirst, the phoenix of mortgage, lays off hundreds

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The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels.

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