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‘There will be bank failures,’ Fed chief tells lawmakers

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In remarks made Thursday to the Senate Banking Committee this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects some U.S. banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. There will be bank failures, but not the big banks.”

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Wells Fargo sells most of its commercial mortgage servicing to Trimont

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Wells Fargo has agreed to sell most of its commercial mortgage servicing portfolio to Atlanta-based Trimont. The deal is expected to make Trimont the largest servicer of multifamily and commercial loans in the U.S. an 11% share of the country’s commercial real estate lending market. That was good for the No.

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DataDigest: Office debt is stressing banks. That matters for mortgages.

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The rapid collapse of four regional banks that began last March shocked regulators and investors alike. The banks had courted high-net-worth clients working in speculative tech and crypto startups in Silicon Valley, while also tying up a large portion of the banks’ assets in Treasury securities. By the end of Feb.

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NexTier Bank to acquire Mars Bank

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NexTier , the holding company of NexTier Bank , will acquire Mars Bancorp , the holding company of Mars Bank. The combined company and branch locations will operate under the NexTier Bank brand, both banks said in a release Thursday. With the acquisition, NexTier Bank will have total assets in excess of $2.6

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Flagstar Bank makes changes to TPO leadership

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Flagstar Bank has made changes to its third-party origination (TPO) channel leadership. Hoffman has spent more than 30 years in mortgage banking, 22 of them at Flagstar, where he started as an account executive. TPO is the bank’s main source of mortgages. Last year’s volume declined 29.5% billion last year, down 41.6%

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NYCB to sell $5B in mortgage warehouse loans to JPMorgan

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New York Community Bancorp , the parent of Flagstar Bank , said it’s still committed to the home loan business despite selling approximately $5 billion in warehouse mortgages to JPMorgan Chase Bank to improve its capital and liquidity position. The bank was followed by Flagstar, with $11.8 billion; 5.7%).

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Santander Bank to stop originating mortgages in the United States

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Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. regulators. regulators.

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