A Long List of Mortgage Layoffs, Mergers, and Closures

I first created this list of mortgage layoffs and closures in February 2007.

Back then, scores of mortgage companies consolidated, laid off employees, sent out scary warnings, and went out of business.

Around that time, some 2.33% of all U.S. mortgages were delinquent, a number which was sure to rise over the following years as the full extent of the mortgage crisis revealed itself.

Between the first and second quarter of 2006 alone, mortgage repurchase requests also tripled thanks to shoddy underwriting that was prevalent during that era.

It was a toxic combination of sky-high home prices at the time of origination, zero down payments, rising mortgage rates, terrible underwriting, rampant fraud, a deteriorating secondary market, and unmanageable mortgage payments.

The party came to an abrupt halt when home values plummeted in nearly every metropolitan area throughout the United States.

There were some 86,126 mortgage job cuts in 2007, and countless more in subsequent years as major institutions like Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial, IndyMac, and Washington Mutual all shuttered.

More than a decade since the Great Recession began, mortgage companies are still facing the consequences of getting involved in what was then a very risky housing market.

Now we face yet another potential housing crisis, due to lofty property values and a doubling of mortgage rates (3% to 6%) in less than a year.

Since early 2022, mortgage layoffs have been driven by a major decrease in mortgage refinance demand and a dwindling pool of eligible home buyers thanks to significantly higher mortgage rates.

Lately, I’ve seen a surge of user comments from former mortgage employees who have been laid off. Those can be viewed below the layoff lists at the very bottom of the page.

Simply put, mortgage companies must “rightsize” as too many players chase far too few loans.

List last updated on October 30th, 2025

Latest updates:

Fannie Mae lays off 62 employees (10/30/25)
American Financial Resources, LLC rebrands as eLEND (10/28/25)
Huntington Bank to acquire Cadence Bank (10/27/25)
Popular Bank ceases mortgage lending in the U.S. (10/24/25)
Rocket Mortgage layoffs (10/17/25)
Cornerstone Capital Bank to acquire Peoples Bank (10/17/25)
Fifth Third Bank to buy Comerica (10/6/25)
Mortgage Research Center sunsets its Paddio brand (10/6/25)
West Capital Lending to acquire Mortgage Connections (10/3/25)
Flyhomes to shut down real estate brokerage business to focus on bridge lending (9/24/25)
Compass, Inc. to acquire Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (9/23/25)
OceanFirst Bank to cut 114 mortgage jobs, partner with Embrace Home Loans for loan origination (9/22/25)
OCMBC to reitre its DBA Jet Advantage Mortgage (9/22/25)
Union Home Mortgage to acquire Sierra Pacific Mortgage (9/16/25)
PNC to acquire FirstBank (9/8/25)
New York Mortgage Trust to change its name to Adamas Trust, Inc. (9/2/25)
Huntington Bank to cease wholesale mortgage lending (8/21/25)
AnnieMac Home Mortgage acquires assets of Home Solution Lenders Inc. (8/12/25)
Mortgage Forward acquires aasets of FiT Mortgage (8/12/25)
AG Mortgage Investment Trust acquires majority stake in Arc Home (8/1/25)
AnnieMac Home Mortgage acquires Florida Funding (7/31/25)
Rocket Mortgage reduces workforce by ~2% post-Redfin acquisition (7/21/25)
New York Mortgage Trust acquires remaining 50% ownership interest in Constructive Loans, LLC (7/15/25)
The Bank of Glen Burnie to acquire VA Wholesale Mortgage Inc. (7/9/25)
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. changes name to Fairway Home Mortgage (7/2/25)
The Real Brokerage Inc. acquires search portal and related technology assets of Flyhomes, makes equity investment to support Flyhomes’ evolution into wholesale mortgage lender (7/1/25)
OFA Group to acquire controlling stake in Aspire Homes and RateDNA (6/27/25)
Cenlar FSB to shut O’Fallon, Missouri loan servicing unit, lay off 93 workers (6/23/25)
Guild Mortgage acquired by Bayview Asset Management (6/18/25)
FBC Mortgage to rebrand as Acrisure Mortgage (6/12/25)
Chimera to acquire HomeXpress Mortgage Corp. (6/12/25)
Fairway Independent Mortgage to acquire assets of Hallmark Home Mortgage (6/11/25)
Supreme Lending to acquire MiMutual Mortgage (5/28/25)
Guild Mortgage approached by Bayview Asset Management, LLC for possible sale or merger (5/23/25)
Rocktop Technologies LLC to acquire Incenter Capital Advisors (5/16/25)
Lower to acquire Movoto (5/13/25)
Amerant Bank to scale back residential mortgage operations, cut 57 jobs (4/24/25)
Dream Finders Homes acquires Alliant National Title Insurance Company (4/21/25)
AnnieMac Home Mortgage to back UNIFY Home Lending (4/21/25)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) layoffs totaling 1,400+ paused (4/19/25)
Luminate Bank to hire 100+ employees of NJ Lenders Corp. (4/14/25)
Flagstar Bank to cut another 40 jobs in Troy, MI (4/11/25)
Fannie Mae lays off ~100 employees (4/7/25)
Sierra Financial Holdings has acquired Preferred Security Life Insurance Company (4/7/25)
Brookfield Asset Management to take majority stake in Angel Oak Companies (4/1/25)
Mechanics Bank to merge with HomeStreet Bank (3/31/25)
Rocket Companies to buy Mr. Cooper (3/31/25)
Blue Ridge Bank to exit mortgage lending, sell its Monarch Mortgage division (3/20/25)
FHFA layoffs (3/20/25)
GMFS Mortgage to split from parent company Ready Capital Corp. (3/14/25)
Flagstar Bank closing branches in multiple states (3/13/25)
The CL Team becomes a part of Luminate Bank (3/11/25)
Willow Home Loans to merge with Milestone Mortgage Solutions LLC (3/11/25)
Rocket Companies to acquire Redfin (3/10/25)
Dream Finders Homes acquires Cherry Creek Mortgage through subsidiary Jet HomeLoans (3/7/25)
Rocket Mortgage to cease operations in Canada, layoffs (3/5/25)
CMG Financial acquires LaSalle Mortgage (3/4/25)
Union Home Mortgage acquires Nations Reliable Lending (3/3/25)
Bank7 to acquire First American Mortgage, Inc. (3/1/25)
Flagstar Bank to cut another 424 jobs related to sale to Mr. Cooper (2/28/25)
reAlpha Tech Corp. to acquire mortgage brokerage GTG Financial (2/24/25)
Ginnie Mae layoffs/resignations affect roughly 25% of ~270-strong workforce (2/21/25)
FHA to cut 40% of staff (2/18/25)
Proper Rate merges with OriginPoint (2/17/25)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to cut 50% of staff (2/14/25)
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dismisses 1,000+ employees (2/13/25)
Mortgage Connect LP layoffs (2/13/25)
JPMorgan Chase layoffs (adjusting staffing levels, likely some in mortgage) ~1000 employees affected (2/12/25)
CFPB layoffs (2/12/25)
Timios onboards team from Slate Mortgage Solutions, LLC to create new Capital Markets Division (2/6/25)
Evans Bank to lay off 63 employees in Williamsville, NY due to merger with NBT Bank (1/29/25)
Trumark Homes aquires Icon Lending (1/28/25)
Newfi Lending makes minority equity investment in Dunmor (1/24/25)
Stearns Bank acquires Horizon Bank’s Mortgage Warehouse Lending Division (1/23/25)
Pulaski Savings Bank shut by FDIC, acquired by Millennium Bank (1/17/25)
WaFd Bank to exit single-family mortgage lending, will result in 8% workforce reduction (1/17/25)
A&D Mortgage to acquire Mr. Cooper’s wholesale division and non-delegated correspondent mortgage business (1/16/25)
Go Mortgage to merge with Pacific Residential Mortgage (1/14/25)
Maymont Homes (a division of Brookfield) to acquire Divvy Homes (1/10/25)
Zillow layoffs (1/10/25)
Redfin to cut 46 jobs at Seattle headquarters (1/9/25)
Ally Financial quits mortgage lending, layoffs (1/8/25)
Lower Mortgage acquires Neat Labs (1/7/25)
Central Mortgage Funding halts mortgage lending in state of Connecticut (1/2/25)
William Raveis to acquire Jordan Real Estate (12/11/24)
Wells Fargo to cut 21 jobs in West Des Moines, IA (12/10/24)
EasyKnock shuts down, layoffs (12/7/24)
Fiserv to lay off between 1,000 and 1,500 employees (12/7/24)
Wells Fargo to cut 721 jobs in Oregon (12/5/24)
BlackRock to buy HPS Investment Partners (parent of Acra Lending/Citadel Servicing Corporation) (12/4/24)
West Capital Lending to acquire Red Tree Mortgage (12/3/24)
Ready Capital to acquire United Development Funding (12/2/24)
Better Mortgage to acquire NEO Home Loans (11/13/24)
Opendoor to reduce its workforce by 17%, affecting roughly 300 positions (11/8/24)
Alliance Credit Union of Florida falls into conservatorship (11/8/24)
City National Bank to cut 19 jobs in Los Angeles (11/5/24)
Fortress Bank to acquire Compass Mortgage (11/5/24)
Fathom Holdings Inc. acquires My Home Group (11/4/24)
Wells Fargo to lay off 32 employees in West Des Moines, IA (10/29/24)
NerdWallet, Inc. acquires Next Door Lending (10/29/24)
Independent Bank exits mortgage warehouse lending (10/28/24)
Rosegate Mortgage partners with Rice Park Capital Management to launch direct-to-consumer unit (10/28/24)
PrimeLending resizing mortgage unit to align with current environment (10/25/24)
Luminate Home Loans to shut down NEO Home Loans division (10/25/24)
Mr. Cooper Group cuts loan servicing jobs (10/24/24)
Flagstar Bank to cut 1,900 jobs as part of strategic transformation plan (10/17/24)
Synergy One Lending to acquire Mann Mortgage, layoffs (9/28/24)
Wells Fargo to cut ~100 jobs as it throttles mortgage business in West Des Moines, IA (9/20/24)
NexBank acquires Equity Now Inc. (9/18/24)
EverBank Financial to acquire Sterling Bank & Trust (9/16/24)
Connexus Credit Union to lay off 16 remote workers in Wausau, WI (9/13/24)
reAlpha Tech Corp. to acquire Be My Neighbor (9/9/24)
OCMBC, Inc. acquires HomeStar Financial (9/6/24)
Eastside Distilling, Inc to acquire Beeline Financial Holdings, Inc. (9/5/24)
Fulton Bank to cut 111 jobs in New Jersey (8/30/24)
Redfin Concierge layoffs (8/23/24)
Wells Fargo to cut approximately 70 employees in Greenwood Village, CO (8/20/24)
Sixth Street to acquire Select Portfolio Servicing from UBS (8/15/24)
Unified Reliance Wholesale to wind down operations (8/14/24)
Open Mortgage to shutter retail division, layoffs (8/12/24)
Garden State Home Loans acquired by OceanFirst Bank (8/2/24)
Planet Home Lending to acquire retail division of Axia Home Loans, layoffs (8/1/24)
Flagstar Bank to sell its third-party origination platform and residential mortgage servicing business to Mr. Cooper (7/25/24)
Radian to lay off 70 workers in Wayne, PA (7/17/24)
Christopher M. George to acquire Greenwoods Financial Group, Inc. (7/17/24)
Bain Capital acquires controlling stake in Archwest (7/8/24)
Newrez layoffs total 78 in Tempe, AZ (7/1/24)
Newrez to let go of another 187 workers in Greenwood Village, CO (6/27/24)
Wells Fargo to cut 130 jobs in Las Vegas, NV (6/27/24)
Wells Fargo cutting 26 jobs in West Des Moines, IA (6/11/24)
Flyhomes acquires assets of ZeroDown (6/11/24)
Newrez to cut 317 jobs in Greenwood Village, CO (6/7/24)
Finance of America layoffs (6/5/24)
Hometown Lenders files Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Alabama (6/4/24)
GO Mortgage and PacRes Mortgage to merge (5/31/24)
Flagstar to halt mortgage warehouse lending (5/14/24)
EasyKnock to acquire HomePace (5/13/24)
Finance of America to retire American Advisors Group (AAG) brand (5/6/24)
Capital Community Bank (CCBank) acquires Security Home Mortgage (5/6/24)
Newrez laying off 70 in Greenwood Village, CO (5/2/24)
Newrez cutting 53 jobs in Jacksonville, FL (5/2/24)
Rithm Capital acquired Specialized Loan Servicing LLC (5/2/24)
William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance to acquire Carson Realty (5/2/24)
ML Mortgage to acquire retail division of Mountain West Financial (5/2/24)
Fairway Independent Mortgage acquires 84 loan officers from Intercap Lending, Movement Mortgage, Norcom Mortgage, and Summit Funding (5/1/24)
Wells Fargo to cut 40 jobs in West Des Moines, IA (4/30/24)
Bank of Hope to acquire Territorial Savings Bank (4/29/24)
Republic Bank (Philadelphia) shut down by regulators, assets acquired by Fulton Bank (4/25/24)
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment to explore strategic alternatives (4/22/24)
First Federal Bank (FL) to acquire Watson Mortgage Corp. (4/18/24)
CMG Financial acquires Norcom Mortgage (4/14/24)
WaFD Bank to let go of 49 employees in Gardena, CA (3/11/24)
Academy Mortgage to cut 250 jobs in Utah (2/29/24)
Rocket Pro Originate platform to be shuttered, possible layoffs (2/29/24)
BWE to acquire First Southern Mortgage (2/21/24)
Wells Fargo to cut 36 jobs in West Des Moines, IA (2/20/24)
City National Bank to cut 56 jobs in Los Angeles (2/14/24)
Guild Mortgage acquires Academy Mortgage (2/13/24)
Proprietary Capital acquires American Financial Resources, LLC (2/12/24)
1st Priority Mortgage to acquire Hudson United Mortgage (2/6/24)
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. to shutter wholesale lending division (2/2/24)
Regions Bank to cut 600 jobs, including those in mortgage division (2/1/24)
New American Funding (NAF) to acquire Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. (DKMC) (2/1/24)
Crescent Mortgage Co. to shut down, lay off 65 employees (1/31/24)
Heritage Bank to exit retail mortgage lending (1/25/24)
UMortgage acquires Community Mortgage Brokers (CMB) (1/22/24)
Country Club Mortgage to let go of 105 employees in Central California (1/17/24)
HomeStreet and HomeStreet Bank to merge with/into FirstSun and Sunflower Bank (1/16/24)
Wells Fargo mortgage layoffs (ongoing)
Truist Financial to close bank branches, cut mortgage jobs (1/8/24)
Kinecta Federal Credit Union layoffs in El Segundo, CA (1/3/24)
Pennymac to lay off 84 workers across Southern California (12/29/23)
Dovenmuehle Mortgage to cut 212 jobs in Lake Zurich, IL (12/19/23)
CrossCountry Mortgage reportedly acquiring AmCap Mortgage (12/18/23)
Premier Nationwide Lending (NTFN Inc.) layoffs (12/17/23)
Lower and Thrive Mortgage to merge (12/14/23)
Tucker Mortgage acquired by Howard Hanna Mortgage Services (12/11/23)
EasyKnock to acquire Balance Homes (12/5/23)
TD Bank to cut 3,000+ jobs, rework real estate footprint (12/1/23)
Fairway Independent Mortgage layoffs (11/28/23)
CMG Financial to acquire Shamrock Home Loans (11/17/23)
Citizens Bank to discontinue loan origination via wholesale mortgage channel (11/15/23)
Bank of New Hampshire stops accepting residential mortgage applications (11/15/23)
Arch MI to acquire Republic Mortgage Insurance Company (RMIC) (11/14/23)
Associated Bank to cut 3% of workforce (11/10/23)
Orchard cuts additional staff (11/9/23)
Maxex layoffs (11/7/23)
Homie conducts more layoffs (11/7/23)
William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage, and Insurance to acquire Jones Group Realtors (11/6/23)
Bank of the West to let go of 41 employees in Omaha, Nebraska (11/2/23)
Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)
Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)
People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)
BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)
Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)
City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)
Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)
AmCap Mortgage layoffs (10/5/23)
First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)
Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)
Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)
Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)
Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)
Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)
The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)
Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)
Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)
Divvy Homes to cut 53 remote jobs in New Jersey (9/11/23)
Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)
Equity Prime Mortgage to shutter retail division (9/8/23)
Point to cut 61 jobs in Palo Alto, CA (9/6/23)
Encompass Lending Group acquires Elite Financing Group (9/1/23)
Spring EQ to be acquired by Cerberus Capital Management (8/31/23)
NexTier Bank to acquire Mars Bank (8/31/23)
Guaranteed Rate layoffs (8/30/23)
Guild Mortgage to acquire First Centennial Mortgage (8/28/23)
AmeriFirst Financial files for bankruptcy (8/25/23)
U.S. Bank laying off 54 in San Diego, CA (8/22/23)
Re/Max to reduce workforce by 7% (8/18/23)
Regions Bank to shut some standalone mortgage branches (8/15/23)
Blend cuts 19% of workforce, or about 150 workers (8/9/23)
Stavvy acquires fintech mortgage servicing company Brace (8/2/23)
First Colony Mortgage Corp. merges with Guaranty Home Mortgage Corp. (8/1/23)
Figure lays off 90 employees, roughly 20% of staff (7/28/23)
Banc of California agrees to purchase PacWest Bancorp (7/26/23)
radius financial group inc. acquires Freedmont Mortgage Group (7/21/23)
M&T Bank exited correspondent mortgage lending (per Inside Mortgage Finance, 7/20/23)
U.S. Bank mortgage layoffs (7/19/23)
Envoy Mortgage layoffs (7/12/22)
Wells Fargo cutting 103 jobs in Orlando, FL (7/12/23)
Premia Relocation Mortgage acquired by Guaranteed Rate (6/30/23)
Zillow Closing Services shuttered, layoffs (6/29/23)
Comerica to exit mortgage warehouse lending (6/13/23)
Better.com layoffs in real estate division (6/12/23)
Roc360 purchased the origination assets of Civic Financial Services (6/5/23)
Planet Home Lending acquires assets of Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation (6/1/23)
Ellington Financial to acquire Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (5/30/23)
Colonial Savings, F.A. to cease mortgage origination (5/25/23)
USAA cut 235 jobs in San Antonio, TX (5/16/23)
Mr. Cooper to acquire Home Point, shut down remaining operations (5/10/23)
EasyKnock acquires Ribbon (5/8/23)
Republic Bank to exit its legacy mortgage origination business, layoffs in NYC (5/5/23)
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage to lay off 140 workers in Springfield, IL (5/4/23)
Wells Fargo to cut 50 jobs in San Francisco, CA (5/2/23)
First Republic Bank fails, acquired by Chase, ~1,000 layoffs (5/1/23)
Rushmore to sell its residential mortgage servicing platform to Mr. Cooper (4/26/23)
First Republic Bank to lay off 20-25% of its workforce (4/24/23)
Wells Fargo to cut 78 mortgage jobs in Des Moines (4/20/23)
Santander Bank to cut 77 jobs in Reading, PA (4/19/23)
Homepoint to lay off 113 employees in Ann Arbor, MI (4/19/23)
Opendoor to cut 560 jobs (4/18/23)
Redfin cuts another 200 jobs (4/13/23)
First Federal Bank to purchase BNC National Bank’s mortgage business assets (4/12/23)
Homepoint to halt loan origination, sell wholesale lending business to The Loan Store (4/7/23)
Citizens Bank mortgage division layoffs in NYC (4/4/23) – per TheRealDeal
Better Mortgage acquires Birmingham Bank (UK) (4/3/23)
SoFi has acquired Wyndham Capital Mortgage (4/3/23)
Homebridge Financial Services to lay off 139 employees in South Iselin, NJ (3/31/23)
First Citizens Bank & Trust to acquire Silicon Valley Bridge Bank (3/27/23)
Bank of America cut loan officer jobs (3/24/23)
Family First Funding acquired by AnnieMac Home Mortgage (3/22/23)
UBS acquires Credit Suisse (3/19/23)
Flagstar Bank acquires deposits, loan portfolios, and branches of Signature Bridge Bank (3/19/23)
CoStar Group, Inc. cuts 62 jobs in San Diego (3/14/23)
Guild Mortgage acquires Cherry Creek Mortgage (3/13/23)
Silvergate Bank to lay off 260 employees in La Jolla, CA (3/13/23)
Signature Bank closed by the NYDFS (3/12/23)
Silicon Valley Bank shut by the FDIC (3/10/23)
Impac Mortgage converts consumer direct division into a mortgage broker fulfillment model (3/8/23)
Silvergate Bank to wind down operations (3/8/23)
Finance of America to cut 48 jobs in Roseville, CA (3/8/23)
North American Savings Bank (NASB Financial Inc.) to lay off 85 across Missouri (3/7/23)
CMG Mortgage, Inc. to acquire the retail division of Homebridge Financial Services (3/6/23)
Citi mortgage layoffs (3/2/23)
Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC to acquire JFQ Lending, LLC (2/28/23)
Majestic Home Loan shut down by the CFPB (2/27/23)
Wells Fargo cut 500+ mortgage jobs per Bloomberg (2/23/23)
JZZ Technologies, Inc. to acquire Oxygen Mortgage (2/22/23)
Civic Financial Services, LLC to eliminate approximately 200 positions (2/21/23)
Mutual of Omaha Mortgage has acquired the assets of Keller Mortgage LLC (2/20/23)
Celebrity Home Loans layoffs (2/16/23)
EagleBank laid off 36 in Rockville, MD (2/15/23)
Mr. Cooper to acquire Roosevelt Management Company and Rushmore
Loan Management Services (2/10/23)
Redwood Trust sees a 24% reduction in workforce due to market volatility (2/10/23)
AmCap Mortgage acquired Oz Lending, Orange Mortgage and Rev Mortgage brands (2/9/23)
Town Square Mortgage to merge with American Portfolio Mortgage (2/9/23)
Chase to cut hundreds of additional mortgage jobs per Bloomberg (2/8/23)
Northpointe Bank to exit correspondent lending business (2/8/23)
Guild Mortgage acquires New Mexico-based Legacy Mortgage (2/7/23)
F&B Financial Group acquired by Amerant Mortgage (2/2/23)
USAA Bank cut 130 mortgage jobs in San Antonio, TX (2/2/23)
Flagstar Bank to close all “out of footprint” locations, leading to 69% reduction in retail home lending offices, layoffs (1/31/23)
Umpqua Bank to lay off half its home lending team (1/30/23)
Reverse Mortgage Funding to lay off 65 in Bloomfield, NJ (1/27/23)
First Internet Bank to exit consumer mortgage business, possible layoffs (1/27/23)
American Pacific Mortgage purchased the assets of Lend Smart Mortgage (1/26/23)
Clear Capital to cut about 250 jobs in Reno, NV (1/26/23)
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage to cut 140 jobs in Springfield, IL (1/18/23)
North American Savings Bank (NASB Financial Inc.) to exit consumer direct home lending business, layoffs (1/13/23)
Blend Labs to lay off another 28% of employees (1/11/23)
Silvergate Bank to cut 181 jobs in La Jolla, CA (1/10/23)
Wells Fargo to exit correspondent lending channel (1/10/23)
Union Bank mortgage layoffs related to U.S. Bank merger (1/10/23)
AmeriFirst Financial (AZ) to shutter operations (1/6/23)
Legacy Bank & Trust acquired Crain Mortgage Group LLC, rebrands as Legacy Capital (1/1/23)
Union Home Mortgage acquires Amerifirst Home Mortgage (12/21/22)
Luminate Home Loans to acquire NEO Home Loans (12/20/22)
UMortgage to acquire NXT Mortgage Co. (12/19/22)
Amerifirst Home Mortgage to eliminate 59 jobs in Portage, MI (12/13/22)
Reverse Mortgage Funding to lay off 44 in Rancho Cordova, CA (12/9/22)
Reverse Mortgage Funding to let go of 119 workers in Melville, NY (12/9/22)
Union Bank to exit wholesale lending after U.S. Bank takeover (12/8/22)
Finance of America to acquire the assets of American Advisors Group (12/7/22)
Doma to eliminate 515 positions, or about 40% of the company (12/6/22)
Interfirst Mortgage to let go of 75 employees in Rosemont, IL (12/6/22)
Athas Capital to lay off 25 in Alpharetta, GA (12/6/22)
Reverse Mortgage Funding to let go of 233 employees in Newburgh, NY (12/9/22)
Wells Fargo to cut hundreds of mortgage jobs nationwide (per Bloomberg)
Guild Mortgage to acquire Inlanta Mortgage, 62 layoffs in Pewaukee, WI (12/1/22)
Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, 233 layoffs (11/30/22)
BayCoast Mortgage to acquire Martha’s Vineyard Mortgage (11/30/22)
Homepoint to eliminate 10 jobs in Clearwater, FL (11/19/22)
Homepoint to shed another 49 jobs in Dallas, TX (11/18/22)
Orchard laid off about 180 workers or roughly 25% of staff (11/17/22)
American Financing to cut 194 jobs in Aurora, CO (11/16/22)
Ribbon pauses RibbonCash program, ~170 layoffs (11/15/22)
Athas Capital to cut 159 jobs in Agoura Hills, CA (11/14/22)
Movement Mortgage acquires Mortgage Network, Inc. (11/11/22)
Mr. Cooper to lay off 175 workers in Santa Ana, CA (11/11/22)
Better Mortgage to let go of 33 employees in Irvine, CA (11/11/22)
Better Mortgage to cut another 13 jobs in Oakland, CA (11/11/22)
Impac Mortgage cut 47% of headcount in Irvine, CA (11/10/22)
Angel Oak Home Loans to exit retail lending channel (11/10/22)
RedfinNow to shut down, 862 layoffs (11/9/22)
Panorama Mortgage Group laid off 50 in Las Vegas, NV (11/9/22)
Radian Group to eliminate 166 jobs in Coraopolis, PA (11/8/22)
New American Funding reduces workforce by roughly 240 jobs (11/8/22)
CrossCountry Morgage to cut 100 jobs in Denver, CO (11/7/22)
Pennymac to lay off 10 workers in Agoura Hills, CA (11/7/22)
Newrez to let go of 24 employees in Columbia, Maryland (11/7/22)
Better Mortgage to eliminate 28 jobs in NYC (11/4/22)
Pennymac to cut another 49 jobs in Southern California (11/4/22)
Mr. Cooper to slash another 800 jobs (11/4/22)
Opendoor to lay off about 550 workers (11/3/22)
Meridian Bank to lay off 1/3 of its mortgage employees and close 3 offices (11/3/22)
Athas Capital Group to wind down operations, 200+ layoffs (11/2/22)
Huntington National Bank to acquire PhysicianLoans (11/2/22)
American Advisors Group (AAG) to let go of 204 employees in Irvine, CA (11/1/22)
Nutter Home Loans to close (10/31/22)
AnnieMac closes wholesale lending channel, possible layoffs (10/31/22)
Finance of America to close Conshohocken, PA office, layoffs (10/28/22)
Pennymac to lay off 20 in Pasadena, CA (10/28/22)
Zillow to cut another 300 jobs, or 5% of company (10/26/22)
Colonial Savings to lay off 54 workers in Orange County, CA (10/25/22)
Finance of America Companies Inc. to discontinue forward mortgage originations via both retail and wholesale channels by the end of the year (10/24/22)
Collins Community Credit Union laid off 38 employees in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (10/15/22)
Finance of America to shutter wholesale and correspondent lending channels (10/11/22)
Summit Funding to cut 72 jobs in Sacramento, CA (10/11/22)
BayFirst Financial to cut another 20 jobs in Florida statewide (10/11/22)
Angel Oak Home Loans cut 15% of staff (10/7/22)
Lower.com layoffs (10/5/22)
Homie layoffs total about 40 in latest round (10/4/22)
Keller Mortgage layoffs (10/4/22)
BayFirst Financial to cut 58 jobs in Clearwater, FL (9/29/22)
Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions cut 75 jobs, or about 20% of staff (9/28/22)
BayFirst Financial to discontinue nationwide network of residential mortgage loan production offices (9/26/22)
American Mortgage Service Company to be acquired by Thrive Mortgage (9/26/22)
Compass to lay off 271 workers in Seattle (9/21/22)
Ruoff Mortgage to slash 4.6% of its workforce (9/16/22)
Citi cuts mortgage jobs (9/2/22)
AmeriSave Wholesale Mortgage Solutions shutting down (9/2/22)
Homepoint to lay off 526 employees in TX (9/2/22)
RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corp. to cut 74 jobs in Melville, NY (9/2/22)
Homepoint to cut 113 jobs in Chandler, AZ (9/1/22)
Homepoint to cut 57 jobs in Clearwater, FL (9/1/22)
Suburban Mortgage appears to have closed its doors (9/1/22)
Wells Fargo to lay off another 75 workers in Des Moines area (9/1/22)
Better Mortgage to cut another 200+ jobs (8/25/22)
Mountain West Financial ceases wholesale lending (8/24/22)
Movement Mortgage acquires mortgage brokerage Superior Rate Mortgage (8/24/22)
Reali to shut down, 132 layoffs in San Mateo, CA (8/24/22)
Blend Labs laid off 400+ employees (about 25% of workforce) (8/16/22)
Panorama Mortgage Group acquires Lone Peak Lending (8/15/22)
Cypress Mortgage Capital, Inc. shut down (8/12/22)
Celebrity Home Loans exits correspondent lending (8/11/22)
loanDepot to shutter wholesale lending channel (8/9/22)
Envision Bank mortgage layoffs (8/4/22)
Matrix Financial Services Corp. to acquire RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corp. (8/3/22)
New American Funding cut 300 jobs (8/2/22)
Wells Fargo to cut 82 jobs in Des Moines area (7/28/22)
Pennymac to cut 32 jobs in Thousand Oaks, CA (7/21/22)
Flyhomes to reduce staff by 20% (7/20/22)
Texana Bank to cut 58 jobs in Irvine, CA (7/15/22)
loanDepot to cut approximately 4,800 jobs in 2022 (7/12/22)
Sprout Mortgage to shut down, lay off 400 employees (7/7/22)
Wells Fargo to cut 107 jobs in Des Moines area (7/6/22)
Redwood Trust acquires Riverbend Lending (7/5/22)
AnnieMac Home Mortgage acquires OVM Financial (6/30/22)
First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. files Chapter 11 bankruptcy (6/30/22)
Mid America Mortgage, Inc. to rebrand as Click n’ Close (6/25/22)
First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. cut 428 jobs in Plano, TX (6/24/22)
Barclays to acquire Kensington Mortgages (6/24/22)
Chase to cut 1,000 home lending jobs (6/22/22)
HomeLight acquires Accept.inc (6/16/22)
Notarize let go of 25% of staff (6/15/22)
Compass to cut 10% of its workforce (6/14/22)
Redfin to slash nearly 500 jobs (6/14/22)
Lower acquires Hamilton Home Loans (6/13/22)
Priority Mortgage to merge with Doorway Home Loans (6/10/22)
Wyndham Capital Mortgage to cut 48 jobs in Charlotte, NC (6/9/22)
Real Genius (FirstBank) laying off 74 employees in Charlotte, NC (6/2/22)
Tomo cuts 44 jobs (6/1/22)
Real Genius (FirstBank) laying off 35 employees in Nasville, TN (5/31/22)
Panorama Mortgage Group acquires Rely Home Loans (5/31/22)
Wells Fargo cut roughly 90 mortgage jobs in Des Moines area (5/24/22)
Nationstar Mortgage (Mr. Cooper) cutting 120 jobs in Santa, Ana CA (5/20/22)
Mid America Mortgage to sell its retail channel to Legend Lending (5/16/22)
Panorama Mortgage Group acquires Vision Mortgage Group (5/13/22)
Pennymac cut 69 jobs in Pasadena, CA (5/6/22)
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to acquire Black Knight, Inc. (5/4/22)
Costco Mortgage program no longer available as of May 1st, 2022 (5/1/22)
Mr. Cooper cut roughly 250 jobs during Q1 2022
Planet Home Lending to acquire Homepoint’s correspondent lending business (4/29/22)
Primis Bank to acquire SeaTrust Mortgage Company (4/28/22)
CrossCountry Mortgage to acquire LendUS (4/22/22)
Owning to cut 189 jobs in Orange, CA
Union Home Mortgage layoffs in Strongsville, OH
Flagstar Bank cut 20% of mortgage staff (420 jobs)
Rocket Mortgage offering buyouts to 8% of staff
USAA Bank cut 90+ mortgage jobs
National Bank Holdings Corporation to acquire Bank of Jackson Hole
Movement Mortgage layoffs (based on industry reporting)
PennyMac to cut 227 jobs in Agoura/Moorpark/Westlake, CA
Prospect Home Finance to cut 5 jobs in La Jolla, CA
PennyMac to cut 81 jobs in Roseville, CA
All Cal Financial to merge with InstaMortgage
Knock to reduce its workforce by approximately 46%
Better Mortgage to cut additional 3,000 jobs in United States and India
TD Bank to acquire First Horizon Corp.
Homie eliminates 119 jobs in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada (2/14/22)
Ellington Financial to acquire reverse mortgage lender Longbridge Financial
WinnPointe Corporation dba Interactive Mortgage to cut 51 jobs in Orange, CA
Santander laid off 198 workers in East Providence, RI (2/3/22)
Santander Bank halts all mortgage lending including HELOCs, layoffs (2/2/22)
KKR to acquire Merchants Mortgage Trust & Corporation, LLC
Mortgage Solutions Financial to acquire First American State Bank, will change name to MSF Bank
Redfin to acquire Bay Equity Home Loans, 121 layoffs (1/11/22)
Stearns Wholesale to shut down, 348 layoffs (1/6/22)
Zillow cut 32 jobs in Coppell, TX (1/3/22)
Genpact Mortgage Services Inc. cut 14 jobs in Irvine, CA
Texas Partners Bank to acquire Legacy Mutual Mortgage
Eustis Mortgage Corporation to acquire Signature Mortgage Corporation
Better Mortgage to cut roughly 900 jobs (9% of staff)
Interfirst Mortgage to cut 77 jobs in Charlotte, NC
Opendoor to acquire RedDoor
Zillow Offers shut down, 25% of staff to be let go
First Federal Community Bank to acquire Lighthouse Mortgage
Armed Forces Bank to acquire residential mortgage operations of KS StateBank
Athene to acquire non-QM lender Newfi
New Residential Investment Corp. to acquire Genesis Capital LLC
U.S. Bank to acquire MUFG Union Bank
Arcus Lending changes name to InstaMortgage
Figure to merge with Homebridge Financial Services
Better Mortgage to acquire U.K. based broker Trussle

Complete list:

1-800-East-West Mortgage Co. – suspended operations, cut roughly half of staff
1st Alliance Lending – shut down
1st Alliance Lending – cut as many as 35 jobs in Hartford, CT
1st American State Bank of Minnesota – shut by FDIC
1st Choice Mortgage – to close, layoffs
1st Commerce Bank (Las Vegas) – closed by FDIC
1st New England Mortgage Corp. – filed bankruptcy
1st Pacific Bank of California – shut by FDIC
1st Regents Bank – shut by FDIC
1st Reverse Financial – to close
360 Mortgage Group – no longer accepting applications
Aames Investment Corp – acquired by Accredited Home Lenders
ABN Amro Mortgage – 1700 layoffs
ABN-Amro Hypotheken-Gruppe – stopped lending in Germany
Academy Mortgage Corp. – acquired First Mortgage Company
Academy Mortgage Corp. – acquired Republic Mortgage Home Loans
Ace Mortgage Funding – shut down
Accenture – cut 45 Charlotte jobs thanks to slowdown in refinancing
Accenture – purchased software company Mortgage Cadence
Access Bank – shut by FDIC
Access National Corporation – closed Denver mortgage production branch, potential layoffs
Accredited Home Lenders – filed bankruptcy
Accredited Home Lenders – ceased wholesale lending for second time in Aug 2008
Accredited Home – shut down retail lending, ceased wholesale, Lone Star lawsuit
Accredited Home – shut down retail lending business, agreed to Lone Star buyout
Accredited Home Lenders – shuts four operations centers, layoffs
Accredited Home Lenders – cuts 38 jobs in Cincinnati
ACC Capital Holdings – mass layoffs, closed Ameriquest, sold wholesale to Citigroup
Acoustic Home Loans – subprime wholesale lender closed its doors
ACT Mortgage Capital – suspended all submissions/funding until further notice
Adfitech Inc. – laid off 320 workers
Advanta Bank Corp. – shut by FDIC
Advantage Home Loans – closed
Advent Mortgage – merged with New Equity Mortgage
AIG – sold United Guaranty Corp. to Arch Capital Group
AIG – bought Equity One
Aegis Funding – closed, seeking bankruptcy protection
Aegis Mortgage Corp. – laying off 401 employees
Affiliated Mortgage – shut its correspondent lending division, cut 31 jobs
Affinity Bank (CA) – shut by FDIC
Aklero Risk Analytics Inc. – merged with NYLX, create LoanLogics
Alabama Trust Bank, National Association – shut by FDIC
All American Bank – shut by FDIC
Allegiance Bank of North America – shut by FDIC
Allendale County Bank – shut down by FDIC
Alliance Bancorp – closed, filed for Ch. 7 bankruptcy
Alliance Bank (Culver City, CA) – shut down by FDIC
Alliance Title Co. – shut down, layoffs
Allied Bank – shut by FDIC
All Fund Mortgage – rumored to be closed, acquired by Carlile Investments Inc.
Allstate Home Loans – shut down after buyout
Ally (GMAC) – said it’s officially done with the mortgage business
Ally mortgage unit ResCap – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Ally Financial – sold European mortgage assets/operations to Fortress Investment Group
Alpha Bank & Trust – shut down by FDIC
ALT Funding – believed to have ceased operations
Alterna Mortgage – New Jersey wholesale lender closed
Alternative Financing Corp. – wholesale division closed
Altisource Portfolio Solutions – shut Owners.com business unit
Altisource Portfolio Solutions – cut 800+ jobs
Altisource Portfolio Solutions – acquired Mortgage Builder
Altivus Financial – closed wholesale operations, now believed to be shut down
AMC Lending –ceases wholesale lending
AMC Mortgage – acquired by Transnational Financial Network Inc.
Amcore Bank, National Association – shut by FDIC
AmeriBanc Corp. – ceased operations
Ameribank Inc. – shut down by FDIC
America One Finance – winding down
America West Bank – shut by FDIC
AmericanFirst Bank – shut by FDIC
AmericasBank – shut mortgage unit
American Advisors Group – acquired the assets of Associated Mortgage Bankers
American Brokers Conduit – shut down all operations
American Business Financial Services – closed
American Capital Mortgage Investment – acquired Residential Credit Solutions, Inc.
American Eagle Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
American Equity Mortgage – placed into receivership
American Equity Mortgage – closing 6 of 30 offices, laying off 40 employees
American Freedom Mortgage – filed bankruptcy
American Home Mortgage – closed down
American Homes 4 Rent – layoffs
American Lending Group – merged with Premier Mortgage Group
American Marine Bank – shut by FDIC
American Mortgage Service Co. and Eustis Mortgage merged
American National Bank – shut by FDIC
American Mortgage Network – bought by Wachovia
American Sterling Bank – halted wholesale lending
American Sterling Bank – shut down by FDIC
American Southern Bank – shut down by FDIC
American Trust Bank – shut by FDIC
American United Bank – shut down
Ameriquest – closed, laid off 3,800, shut 229 retail branches after $325 million settlement
AmeriSave Mortgage Corp. – bought origination business of The Money Source (TMS)
AmeriSave Mortgage Corp. – purchased CertusBank mortgage unit
Ameritrust Mortgage Company – subprime wholesale division closed
AmPro Mortgage closed – (part of Alliance Bancorp)
AMS Servicing – acquired by Seneca Mortgage Investments
Amstar Mortgage Corp. – most staff laid off, The Money Store to take over by Dec. 15
AmTrust Bank – shut by FDIC
AmWest Funding – layoffs in Brea, CA
AmWest Funding Corporation – acquired Bridgeway Financial
ANB Financial – shut down by FDIC for lax lending standards
Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions – cut roughly 200 jobs
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. – acquired CreXus Investment Corp.
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. – its Belvedere subsidiary is in default and faces margin calls
Apex Financial Group/Aapex Mortgage – commission checks delayed, licenses suspended
Apex Mortgage/Aapex Mortgage – reportedly cease all operations
Apex Lending, Inc. – shut down
Appalachian Community Bank – shut by FDIC
APS Mortgages Limited (UK) – independent brokerage shut down
Aquiline Capital Partners – took majority investment in LenderLive Network
Arch Capital – acquired CMG Mortgage Insurance Co.
Arcola Homestead Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Argent – sold to Citigroup
Associated Bank (WI) – closed eight branches, cut mortgage jobs at La Crosse location
Assurant Inc. – acquired Field Asset Services
Assurant Specialty Property – acquired StreetLinks
Assured Lending Corp – to exit wholesale lending
Assured Mortgage – merged with Bell Bank Mortgage
Atlantic Bank and Trust – shut by FDIC
Atlantic Bay Mortgage – cut a dozen jobs
Atlantic Southern Bank – shut by FDIC
Aurora – stopped wholesale and correspondent lending
Aurora Bank FSB – cut 450 jobs in Indianapolis
Aurora Loan Services – 160 employees laid off
Aurora Loan Services – laid off 70 in Florida, 139 in NJ
Aurora Loan Services – cut 93 jobs in El Toro, CA
Axix Mortgage – closed
Banc of California – stopped wholesale and correspondent lending
Banc of California – acquired CS Financial
Banco Santander – to buy UK lender Alliance & Leicester PLC
Bank 34 – halted mortgage lending, will sell/close its 9 production offices
BankAtlantic – laid off 115 employees
BankEast – shut by FDIC
BankFirst – shut by FDIC
Bank of America – cut roughly 100 mortgage jobs in Charlotte
Bank of America – closed mortgage center near Portland, OR, 102 layoffs
Bank of America – cut 70 mortgage jobs in Simi Valley, CA
Bank of America – cut 50 jobs at Legacy Asset Servicing unit in Fort Worth, TX
Bank of America – cut 114 jobs at Simi Valley, CA mortgage servicing unit
Bank of America – cut 250 mortgage employees in Charlotte
Bank of America – cut 200+ mortgage servicing workers in Norfolk, VA
Bank of America – closed office in Rancho Cordova, CA, 160 home equity job layoffs
Bank of America – cut 177 mortgage jobs in Texas
Bank of America – cut 53 mortgage employees in Jericho, NY
Bank of America – cut 113 mortgage employees in West Hills, CA
Bank of America – eliminated 69 mortgage servicing jobs in Jacksonville
Bank of America – cut 100+ mortgage jobs in Virginia
Bank of America – laid off 77 mortgage workers at St. Louis office
Bank of America – cut 153 mortgage jobs in Pasadena, CA
Bank of America – cut 540 loss mitigation jobs in Charlotte
Bank of America – cut mortgage jobs at locations in Richardson and Ft. Worth, TX
Bank of America – cut 280 mortgage jobs in St. Charles, MO
Bank of America – cut 24 mortgage servicing jobs in Brea, CA
Bank of America – cut 174 distressed mortgage jobs at Simi Valley, CA locations
Bank of America – closed home lending office in Marlton, NJ, 136 layoffs
Bank of America – cut 1,000 mortgage jobs in Ohio, closing offices in Beachwood, Cincinnati, and Independence
Bank of America – cut 152 jobs in Sunrise, FL
Bank of America – reportedly closing old Countrywide Mortgage branches
Bank of America – cut roughly 4,000 more mortgage jobs by end of 2013
Bank of America – cut 209 jobs at call center for distressed mortgages in Pittsburgh, PA
Bank of America – closed Maitland mortgage facility, cut 53 jobs
Bank of America – cut 411 loan servicing jobs in Texas
Bank of America – cut 543 jobs in Fresno
Bank of America – slashed 113 mortgage jobs in Dallas
Bank of America – cut 1,320 jobs at Getzville, New York mortgage-servicing facility
Bank of America – cut 469 jobs from Newark, NJ mortgage servicing center
Bank of America – cut 57 mortgage assistance jobs in Rancho Cordova, CA
Bank of America – laid off 675 workers in Fort Lauderdale
Bank of America – shut its correspondent mortgage business, layoffs
Bank of America – cut 34 jobs at Saratoga Springs, NY mortgage office
Bank of America – halts reverse mortgage lending
Bank of America – halts wholesale mortgage lending
Bank of America – to cut up to 35,000 jobs
Bank of America – to buy Countrywide
Bank of America – Countrywide merger possibility, continued layoffs
Badger State Bank – shut by FDIC
Bank of America – ceased wholesale lending, 700 layoffs
Bank of America – cut 224 jobs in Tampa, 195 in Troy
Bank of America – completes purchase of Countrywide
Bank of America – bought Merrill Lynch
Bank of Choice – shut by FDIC
Bank of Clark County – shut down by FDIC
Bank of the Commonwealth – shut by the FDIC
Bank of Ellijay – shut by FDIC
Bank of Elmwood – shut down
Bank of Granite and Granite Mortgage Inc. – to combine, layoffs
Bank of Florida (Tampa, Southwest, Southeast) – shut by FDIC
Bank of Hiawassee – shut by FDIC
Bank of Illinois – shut by FDIC
Bank of Jackson County – closed by FDIC
Bank of Leeton – shut by FDIC
Bank of Lincolnwood – shut by FDIC
Bank of Shorewood – shut by FDIC
Bank of the Eastern Shore – shut by FDIC
Bank of Wausau – shut by FDIC
Bank of Whitman – shut by FDIC
Bank of Wyoming – shut by FDIC
BankMeridian – shut by FDIC
BankUnited – halted retail mortgage lending, layoffs
BankUnited – ceased wholesale lending, layoffs
BankUnited – shut down
BankUnited – to close four wholesale mortgage sales offices, 200 layoffs
BankUnited – cut another 160 jobs
BankUnited – cut 115 jobs in Miami Lakes, FL
Bank USA – shut down
Barclays – halted certain MBS trading in U.S., layoffs
Barclays Bank PLC – bought Equifirst
Barclays Bank PLC – sold HomEq Servicing to Ocwen Financial
Barnes Banking Company – shut by FDIC
Bartow County Bank shut by FDIC
Basis Yield – Australian hedge fund files for bankruptcy due to subprime lending woes
Bath Building Society (UK) – halt mortgage lending
Bay Capital Corp. – closed
Bay Equity Home Loans – acquired assets of Village Mortgage
Bay National Bank – shut by FDIC
BayRock Mortgage Corp. – ceased wholesale lending
Bayside Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Bayview Financial – cut 60 jobs
BB&T Corp. – purchased SunTrust Banks, Inc.
BB&T – bought Collateral Real Estate Capital
BB&T – to shut subprime wholesale lending unit
BC Bancorp – shut down
BC National Banks – shut by FDIC
Beach First National Bank – shut by FDIC
Beacon Financial Mortgage Bankers Corp. – filed bankruptcy
Bear Stearns – layoffs
Bear Stearns – closed two hedge funds after huge subprime losses, 240 subprime layoffs
Bear Stearns – merging Encore Credit and Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage into one unit
Bear Stearns – cuts 150 jobs in Irvine, CA
Beazer Mortgage Corp. – halts loan origination
Beazer Homes – closed office, layoffs, subpoenaed for fraud
Beazer Homes – cut 25% of staff
Belvedere Trust Mortgage – two default notices, unlikely to pay back loans
Ben-Ezra & Katz – cut nearly half of staff
Ben-Ezra Law Firm – cuts 146 jobs, exits foreclosure space
Benchmark Bank – shut by FDIC
Beneficial Finance – layoffs
Berkshire Hills Bancorp – acquired 20 Bank of America branches in state of New York
BF Saul Wholesale Group – layoffs and closures, could be dissolved
BlackandWhite.co.uk – halts lending, layoffs
Blackstone – acquired significant stake in PMI Group
Blackstone – purchased Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services (per IMF)
Blackstone – acquired majority stake in Stearns Holdings, LLC
Blackstone – bought PHH Mortgage
Blue Ridge Bankshares Inc. – acquired LenderSelect Mortgage Group
Blue Ridge Savings Bank, Inc. – shut by FDIC
Blue Spot Home Loans – shut down
BMC Capital – to acquire NMB Capital
BMO Harris – eliminated 170 mortgage jobs
BNC Mortgage – filed bankruptcy
BNC Mortgage LLC – shut down – consolidated with Aurora Loan Services layoffs
BNC Mortgage – cut 175 jobs in Nor. Cal, 400 in So. Cal
BNY Mortgage – changes name to EverBank Reverse Mortgage
BOK Financial – exited correspondent lending business
Bradford & Bingley (UK) – nationalized, 370 layoffs
Bradford Bank (MD) – shut by FDIC
Bramble Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Brickwell Community Bank – shut down by FDIC
Bridgeview Bank Mortgage – cut 97 jobs
Bridger Commercial Funding – closing
Broad Street Mortgage – sold to Wausau Mortgage Corp.
Broadway Bank – shut by FDIC
BrokerSource – ceased operations
BrooksAmerica Mortgage Corp. – temporarily suspended new loan originations
BSM Financial – closed wholesale unit BrokerSource
Budget Finance Co. – layoffs
Butler Bank – shut by FDIC
Butte Community Bank – shut by FDIC
c2 Financial (UK lender) – to lay off roughly 20 percent of workforce
C & G Financial – suspended funding/production
C-BASS – acquired Fieldstone Investment Group, struggling with margin calls
Calculated Risk Analytics – bought Castle Mortgage, will rebrand as Excelerate Capital
Caliber Home Loans – bought Banc Home Loans
Caliber Home Loans – acquired First Priority Financial
Caliber Home Loans – acquired Cobalt Mortgage
California National Bank – shut down
California TD Investments LLC – filed for bankruptcy
CalPERS – home loan program suspended
Calusa Investments – website down, thought to be closed
Cambridge Home Capital – loses FHA approval
Cameron Financial Group – bankrupt
Canyon National Bank – shut by FDIC
Cape Fear Bank –shut down by FDIC
Capital City Bank Group Inc. – acquired 51% ownership stake in BrandMortgage
CapitalSouth Bank – shut down by FDIC
Capital One – exits mortgage business
Capital One – cut another 286 jobs at Plano office related to mortgage exit
Capital One – laid off 109 employees at Wilmington, DE mortgage center
Capital One Financial – bought Beech Street Capital
Capital One Financial – bought Chevy Chase Bank
Capital One Home Loans – shutting Overland Park office, 300+ layoffs
Capital One Mortgage – 2,000 layoffs planned nationwide
Capital Six Funding – subprime and hard money lender suspended operations
CapitalSource Inc. – to acquire retail banking operations of Fremont General
Capitol City Bank & Trust Company – shut by FDIC
Capmark Financial Group – files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
CapStar Bank – purchased Farmington Financial Group
Carlile Investments Inc. – acquired All Fund Mortgage
Carolina Federal Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Carrington Holding Company, LLC – acquired Clear Financial Solutions Limited (UK)
Carrington Mortgage – purchased certain assets of American Home Equity Corp.
Carson River Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Carteret Mortgage Corp. – to be closed down, hundreds of layoffs loom
CashCall – cut 486 jobs in Anaheim, CA
Castle Point Mortgage – will no longer accept wholesale broker applications
CBA Commercial – said to have had sizable layoffs
CBRE Realty Finance – halted lending
Celebrity Financial – purchased Midwest Equity Mortgage
Centennial Bank – shut by FDIC
Centennial Mortgage and Funding Inc. / Award Mortgage – shut down
CenterState Bank – acquired mortgage staff from State Bank and Trust Company
Centex Home Equity – changed its name to Nationstar Mortgage
Central Arizona Bank – closed by FDIC
Central Bank of Georgia – shut by FDIC
Central Federal Credit Union – placed in conservatorship
Central Florida State Bank – shut by FDIC
Central Pacific Mortgage – closed, TMSF cancels deal to acquire company
Central Progressive Bank – shut by FDIC
Central States Mortgage Co. – suspends operations
Century Bank FSB – to halt wholesale lending
Century Bank FSB – shut down by FDIC
Century Security Bank – shut by FDIC
CertusBank – acquired Resource Financial Services
CF Bancorp – shut by FDIC
CFIC Home Mortgage – closing down
Champion Bank – shut by FDIC
Champion Home Builders – 196 layoffs
Chapel Funding – bought by Deutsche Bank
Charcol Mortgages (UK) – cut up to 50 jobs
Charter Bank (Santa Fe, NM) –shut by FDIC
Charter Funding – believed to be closed by parent First Magnus Financial
Charter Mortgage – shut specialty lending unit
Charter National Bank and Trust – shut by FDIC
Charter Oak Bank – shut by FDIC
Charter One – exits wholesale lending
Chase – laid off roughly 400 mortgage workers in Arizona, Florida, and Ohio
Chase – shuttered mortgage customer assistance office in Milwaukee, 135 layoffs
Chase – cut hundreds of mortgage workers in Rochester and Jacksonville
Chase – cut 155 jobs at its Garden City, NJ mortgage office
Chase – cut 165 jobs at Chatsworth, CA mortgage processing center
Chase – cut 156 mortgage jobs in Houston
Chase – laid off 168 employees from Irvine, CA mortgage office
Chase – closed mortgage office in Irvine, CA, layoffs
Chase – cut 440 mortgage jobs in Columbus, Ohio area
Chase – shut mortgage office in Troy, Michigan that handled refis and loan mods, 360+ layoffs
Chase – cut 145 mortgage jobs at offices in Chicago and nearby Downers Grove
Chase – cut 42 mortgage servicing jobs in Iselin, NJ
Chase – shed 97 mortgage positions in Columbus, OH
Chase – cut 500+ mortgage jobs in Texas
Chase – cut 730 jobs at San Diego loan servicing unit, eventually close office
Chase – closed Florence, SC mortgage servicing center, laying off 450 employees
Chase – cut 94 jobs at Milwaukee mortgage center
Chase – to buy Bear Stearns
Chase – closing subprime loan facility in Ontario, CA 91 layoffs
Chase – Washington Mutual merger
Chase – closed mortgage facility in Albion, NY, 400 layoffs
Chase – cut 435 jobs at three separate offices in Tampa, FL
Chase – cut 500+ mortgage assistance jobs in Florence, SC
Chase – wholesale lending division shut down
Chase – shut home equity and subprime wholesale units, layoffs
Chase – shut warehouse lending unit, cutting another 2,800 WaMu jobs
Chase – closed operation centers in CA and NJ
Chase – shut home equity processing center in Rochester, 300 layoffs
Chase – cut roughly 100 home equity jobs in Indianapolis
Chase – cut 9,200 Washington Mutual jobs
Chase de Vere Mortgage Management (UK) – to close
Chase Home Finance – closed retail subprime operations center in Woodcliff, NJ
Chase Home Finance – shut 430-employee branch in Lexington, KY
Chase Home Lending – cut 55 jobs in San Diego
Chase Home Lending – cut 52 wholesale mortgage jobs in Orange, CA
Chase Home Lending – cut 132 jobs in Ohio
Chase Home Lending – unit closing in Charlotte, 92 layoffs
Chase Home Lending – cut 266 jobs in Pennsylvania
Chase Home Mortgage – halts construction lending
Chase Wholesale Lending – shut four loan centers, cut 175 jobs
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. – acquired Aurora Financial Group Inc.
Chestatee State Bank – shut by FDIC
Chevy Chase – layoffs, to stop lending in CA
Chevy Chase – cut correspondent channel, facing class-action lawsuit
Chevy Chase – halts construction-to-perm lending
Chevy Chase – seized wholesale lending
Chevy Chase – layoffs
Chicago and Dallas Federal Home Loan Banks – proposed merger off
Chipola Community Bank – shut by FDIC
CHL Mortgages (UK) – to cut 20% of staff
Choice Capital Funding – rumored to be closed
Churchill Mortgage – laid off roughly 20 workers in Tennessee
CIBC – layoffs
CIT Group Inc. – sold Financial Freedom, exit reverse mortgage business
CIT Group Inc. – shut down mortgage division 500+ layoffs
CIT Group Inc.– bought OneWest Bank (formerly IndyMac)
CIT Group Inc.– sold remaining mortgage assets to Lone Star Funds
CIT Group Inc. – files for bankruptcy
Citadel Servicing Corp. – cut 108 jobs in Irvine, CA
Citadel – buying ResMAE
Citi – cut 160 mortgage service jobs in Las Vegas
Citi – closed default mortgage service centers in Fort Mill and Hagerstown, hundreds of layoffs
Citi – cut more than 2,000 mortgage jobs by early 2014
Citi – laid off roughly 760 mortgage employees in Las Vegas
CitiFinancial – to close 376 branches, 500+ layoffs
Citigroup – shut Danville, IL call center created to handle excess refinance capacity, 121 layoffs
Citigroup – laid off 150 workers at Fort Mill, SC
Citigroup – layoffs as high as 45,000
Citigroup – bought ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, acquired assets of Argent Mortgage
Citigroup – layoffs in collateralized debt obligation unit
Citigroup – to sell or shut down First Collateral Services
Citigroup – to layoff 2000 investment bankers/traders
Citigroup – stopped wholesale mortgage lending
Citigroup – to cut 9,000 jobs
Citigroup – cut about 30 jobs in structured-credit group tied to mortgage losses
Citigroup – to close Future Mortgages (UK) and CitiFinancial (UK subprime), layoffs
Citigroup – cut 125 jobs in Texas
Citigroup – to cut up to 6,500 investment banking jobs
Citigroup correspondent – lending halted
Citi Home Equity – layoffs
CitiMortgage wholesale – to cut jobs, drop brokers
CitiMortgage – halts wholesale home equity lending, 500 layoffs
CitiMortgage – halted jumbo wholesale lending
CitiMortgage – cut 190 wholesale mortgage jobs in Des Moines, IA
Citi Residential Lending – retail mortgage unit to be consolidated
Citizens Bank – mortgage layoffs
Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Chicago – shut by FDIC
Citizens Bank of Effingham – shut by FDIC
Citizens Bank of Northern California shut by FDIC
Citizens Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Citizens Financial Group – acquired Franklin American Mortgage Company
Citizens First National Bank – shut by FDIC
Citizens National Bank – shut down
Citizens Republic Bancorp – to cut 60 jobs, mainly from mortgage processing
Citizens State Bank – shut by FDIC
City Bank – shut by FDIC
Clayton Holdings – acquired Red Bell Real Estate, LLC
Clear Choice Financial – in default, bankruptcy possible
CliftonLarsonAllen – acquired Bankers Advisory Inc.
CMXL – acquired All Fund
Coast Bank – sold to First Banks of St. Louis
Coastal Bank – shut down by FDIC
Coastal Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Cobalt Capital (UK) – shut down
Cohen Financial – cut 25% of staff
Coldstream Financial Services – closed
Collateral Real Estate Capital – acquired by BB&T
Colonial Bank – shut by FDIC
Colonial National Mortgage – closing operations center in Ohio
Colonial National Mortgage – to halt wholesale lending
Colony Bank – agreed to purchase PFB Mortgage
Colony Mortgage Corp. – closed
Colorado National Bank – shut down by FDIC
Columbia Bancorp – shut mortgage unit, cut 39 jobs
Columbia Home Loans – subprime lender closed
Columbia River Bank –shut by FDIC
Columbia Savings Bank – closed by FDIC
Columbian Bank and Trust Co. (Kansas) – shut down by FDIC
Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida – shut by FDIC
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. – acquired Assumption Mortgage Corp., renamed Assumption Mortgage, LLC
Commerce Home Mortgage – bought LoanStar Home Loans
Commercial First (UK) – halted new lending
Commonwealth Bank of Australia – to acquire Wizard Home Loans
Community Bank and Trust (Cornelia, GA) – shut by FDIC
Community Bank of Arizona – shut by FDIC
Community Bank of Lemont – shut down
Community Bank of Nevada – shut by FDIC
Community Bank of Rockmart – shut by FDIC
Community Bank of the Ozarks – shut by FDIC
Community Bank of West Georgia – shut by FDIC
Community Banks of Colorado – shut by FDIC
Community Capital Bank – shut by FDIC
Community Central Bank – shut by FDIC
Community First Bank – shut by FDIC
Community First Bank Chicago – shut by FDIC
Community National Bank – shut by FDIC
Community National Bank at Bartow – shut by FDIC
Community National Bank of Sarasota County – shut by FDIC
Community One Federal Credit Union – shut down
Community Resource Mortgage – closed its wholesale lending division, layoffs
Community Security Bank – shut by FDIC
Community South Bank (Parsons, TN) – closed by FDIC
Complete Financial Solutions – acquired American Patriot Bank
Comunidades Federal Credit Union of Los Angeles – shut down
ComUnity Lending – halted operations, faces liquidation
Concord Mortgage Co. – believed to be out of business
Concorde Acceptance – rumored to be closed
Contact 4 (UK) – to cut 108 jobs
Cooperative Bank – shut by FDIC
Copper Star Bank – shut by FDIC
CoreLogic – acquired Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MSB) and DataQuick
CoreLogic – closed Charlotte office and lay off 62 employees
CoreLogic – closed offices in Lancaster (CA) and Simi Valley (CA), 154 layoffs
CoreLogic – purchased Case-Shiller home price indexes from Fiserv
CoreStar Financial Group – closed
Corn Belt Bank and Trust Co. – shut down by FDIC
Cornerstone Home Lending – acquired The Roscoe State Bank
Cortez Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Corus Bank – shut down by FDIC
Country Bank – shut by FDIC
Countrywide – combines wholesale and correspondent units
Countrywide – closing wholesale fulfillment centers
Countrywide – shut 16 wholesale loan fulfillment centers
Countrywide – believed to have shut 46 Full Spectrum Lending branches
Countrywide Correspondent Lending Division – cut 293 jobs
Countrywide Specialty Lending Division – layoffs
Countrywide Capital Market Division – cut 65 jobs
Countrywide – laid off 73 employees in Canoga Park
Countrywide – cutting up to 12,000 jobs
County Bank (Merced, CA) – shut down by FDIC
Cove Financial Group Inc. – ceased operations
Covenant Bank – shut by the FDIC
Covenant Bank & Trust – shut by FDIC
Credit Suisse – layoffs, bought LIME Financial
Credit Suisse – to cut 500 investment banking jobs
Credit Suisse – to cut 150 jobs in its investment bank unit in UK
Credit Suisse – cut 210 jobs in NYC
CreekSide Bank – shut by FDIC
Crescent Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
CrossCountry Mortgage – acquired PERL Mortgage, Inc.
CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC – acquired assets of First Choice Loan Services Inc.
CrossCountry Mortgage – acquired bemortgage from Bridgeview Bank
CSB Mortgage Company – ceased wholesale mortgage lending, layoffs
CTX Mortgage Company – acquired by Pulte
CU National Mortgage – halts lending
Dana Capital – closed
Darby Bank & Trust Co. – shut by FDIC
DB Home Lending – consolidated with MortgageIT, layoffs, rumored to be closed
Decatur First Bank – shut by FDIC
DeepGreen Financial – closed
Decision One – shut down, layoffs
Del Sur Mortgage – merged with Academy Mortgage Corporation
Delta Financial – closed offices, 300 layoffs
Delta Financial – bankruptcy, suspends loan origination
Delta Financial Corp. – layoffs
Desert Hills Bank – shut by FDIC
Deutsche Bank Correspondent Lending Group – consolidating business to MortgageIT
DeWitt Mortgage Services & Property Management – halted lending in Georgia
Diablo Funding Group – shut down
Digital Risk LLC – cut 745 mortgage jobs in Florida
Digital Risk – laid off 112 employees in Boca Raton, FL
Direct Finance Corp. – acquired First Call Mortgage Co.
Discover Home Loans shuts down
Ditech – sold reverse mortgage business to Mortgage Assets Management, LLC
Ditech – closed St. Paul office, let go of 210 employees
Ditech – closed Rapid City, SD call center, cut 450 jobs
Ditech – cut 79 jobs as it closes Kennesaw, Georgia facility
Ditech – exited retail channel, ~200 layoffs
Ditech – closed San Antonio office, 78 layoffs
Ditech – cut 103 jobs in St. Louis area
Ditech – closed Irving, TX office and laid off 437 employees
Ditech – 181 layoffs
Ditech – cut 120 jobs at Costa Mesa, CA headquarters
Dollar Mortgage Corp. – being acquired by Shearson Financial Network
Domestic Bank – shutting down wholesale unit
Doral Bank En Espanol – shut by FDIC
Douglas County Bank – shut by FDIC
Dover Mortgage Company – shutting wholesale mortgage division
Dover Mortgage Co. – cut 17 employees
Downeast Mortgage Corp. – to shut down
Downey Savings – shut down by the FDIC
Downey Savings – shut wholesale channel
Draper and Kramer Mortgage – merged with 1st Advantage Mortgage LLC
DuPage National Bank – closed by FDIC
Dwelling House Savings and Loan Association – shut by FDIC
eBank – shut down by FDIC
E-Loan/Banco Popular Wholesale Mortgage – to cease lending
E-loan – closed sub-prime wholesale division, layoffs
E-Loan – layoffs
E-Trade – exits wholesale mortgage business
E-Trade – halts mortgage lending
Earl Shilton building society (UK) – halts mortgage lending
Earthstar Bank – shut by FDIC
Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union – put in conservatorship
Eastside Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
Edgebrook Bank – shut by FDIC
Edgewater Lending Group – halts wholesale lending
Edward Jones Mortgage – shut down, 200+ possible layoffs
Egg Mortgages (Citi-owned UK finance unit) – no longer accepting applications
Elizabeth State Bank – shut by FDIC
Ellie Mae – acquired AllRegs
Ellie Mae – acquired MortgageCEO
Empire Bancorp Mortgage Bankers – shut down
Encore Bank – laid off 300 employees
ECC Capital/Encore Credit – sold to Bear Stearns, 100 layoffs announced Aug. 17
Encore Credit – laid off 100 Account Executives at wholesale unit in Irvine, CA
Encore Credit – merging with Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage
Enterprise Financial Services – bought Gorman & Gorman Home Loans
Entrust Mortgage – closed
Equibanc – closed by Wachovia
Equifirst – shutting down
Equifirst – layoffs, bought out by Barclays Bank PLC
EquiFirst – cut 64 jobs in Arizona
Equipoint – halted wholesale lending, shut 70+ branches
Equitable Mortgage – merged into Flat Branch Home Loans
Equitable Reverse Mortgage – closed doors
Equitable Trust Mortgage Corp. – suspended by FHA
Equity One (a unit of Popular Inc.) – cut 147 jobs in Marlton, NJ
Equity Title (owned by Coldwell Banker) – layoffs
Eurobank – shut by FDIC
Evansville Teachers FCU – acquired First Liberty Financial Mortgage
EverBank – laid off 302 employees in Jacksonville
EverBank Financial – ceased wholesale lending, closed three operations centers in Dallas, Jacksonville, and Sacramento while cutting 150 jobs
Evergreen Bank –shut by FDIC
Evergreen State Bank – shut by FDIC
Excel Bank – shut by FDIC
Exchange Financial – temporarily discontinuing its Wholesale/Correspondent business
eXp Realty – reduced headcount by approximately 15%
Expanded Mortgage Credit – closed wholesale
Express Capital Lending – not accepting new submissions until further notice
Family First Mortgage Corp. – ceases operations, layoffs
Fannie Mae – 200 layoffs
Fannie Mae – consolidated three Dallas offices, possible layoffs
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – bailed out by the government
Farmers’ and Traders’ State Bank – shut by FDIC
Fayette County Bank – shuttered by FDIC
FBR Capital Markets – cut 75 jobs
FBR – selling subprime unit
Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle – merged with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
Federal Savings Bank – acquired Baytree National Bank & Trust
Fenway Summer – merged with Ethos Lending
Fidelity Bank – shut by FDIC
Fidelity Homestead Savings Bank – purchased NOLA Lending Group LLC
Fidelity National Financial – to buy LandAmerica (large title companies)
Fidelity National Financial – terminated LandAmerica merger
Fidelity National Information Services – cut 35 jobs in Jacksonville
Fidelity Trust Bank – selling residential mortgage company Fidelity Trust Mortgage Inc.
Fieldstone Mortgage – went bankrupt
Fieldstone Mortgage Co. – halted new business, closed Las Vegas branch, layoffs
Fifth Third Bank – closed 44 Chicago-area branches
Fifth Third Bank – ceased wholesale mortgage lending
Fifth Third Bank – wholesale mortgage layoffs in Charlotte, NC as refinance demand wanes
Fifth Third Bank – 700 layoffs
Fifth Third – to discontinue Alt-A lending
Finance America – closed
Finance of America – acquired wholesale lending assets of Parkside Lending LLC
Finance of America – closed Roseville, CA office, 33 layoffs
Finance of America Mortgage – acquired Skyline Home Loans
Financial Freedom – cut 65 jobs in Irvine, CA office
Financial Title Company – closing, layoffs
Firstar Bank – acquired assets of Leader Mortgage
First Advantage – acquired CredStar
First American Bank – to cease wholesale lending
First American Corp. (title insurer) – layoffs at 1,900
First American Financial – purchased Interthinx
First American Title Insurance – cut 116 jobs in Santa Ana, CA
First Arizona Savings – shut by FDIC
FirstBank – acquired Franklin Synergy Bank
FirstBank – sold correspondent lending unit to Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC
FirstBank – purchased wholesale mortgage division of StellarOne Corp.
FirstBank – to shut down wholesale mortgage division Oct. 31
FirstBank Financial Services – shut down by FDIC
FirstCity – Bank shut down by FDIC
FirstLine Mortgages (Canada’s largest mortgage broker) – stopped mortgage lending
First Bancshares – acquired The Mortgage Connection, LLC
First BankAmericano – shut by FDIC
First Bank of Beverly Hills – shut down by FDIC
First Bank of Idaho – shut down by FDIC
First Bank of Jacksonville – shut by FDIC
First Bank of Kansas City – shut down by FDIC
First Banking Center – shut by FDIC
First Banks of St. Louis – bought Coast Bank
First California Mortgage Company – shut down, layoffs
First Capital Bank – shut by FDIC
First Centennial Bank – shut down by FDIC
First Cherokee State Bank – shut by FDIC
First Choice Bank – shut by FDIC
First Choice Community Bank – shut by FDIC
First Choice Loan Services, Inc. – ceased operations, for sale
First Citizens Bank – acquired CIT Group (OneWest Bank)
First Collateral Services (Citi) – 126 layoffs
First Collateral Services (Citi) – cut 150 jobs
First Commerce Community Bank – shut by FDIC
First Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
First Commercial Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
First Commercial Bank of Tampa Bay – shut by FDIC
First Community Bancorp – layoffs
First Community Bank – shut by FDIC
First Community Bank of Southwest Florida (Community Bank of Cape Coral) – shut by FDIC
First Community Mortgage (FCM) – acquired a Mortgage Boutique (AMB)
First CornerStone Bank – shut by FDIC
FirsTier Bank – shut by FDIC
First Consolidated Mortgage Co. – subprime wholesaler shutting down, in dispute
First Coweta Bank – shut down by FDIC
First Direct Lending – stopped accepting applications
First DuPage Bank – shut down
First East Side Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
First Federal Bank – shut by FDIC
First Federal Bank of California – halted wholesale lending
First Federal Bank of California – shut by FDIC
First Federal Bank of North Florida – shut by FDIC
First Fidelity Financial – closed its doors
First Financial Bank – buy 4Trust Mortgage
First Franklin – shut down, layoffs, sold to Merrill Lynch
First Georgia Banking Company – shut by FDIC
First Georgia Community Bank – shut down by FDIC
First Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Jacksonville – shut by FDIC
First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. – acquired goodmortgage.com
First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. – cut 82 jobs in Frederick, MD
First Heritage Bank – shut by FDIC
First Horizon – shut down mortgage operations
First Horizon – cutting 1,500 jobs, closing 50 offices
First Horizon National Corp. – divested its subprime mortgage loan portfolio
First Horizon – discontinued national construction and commercial lending, 160 layoffs
First Horizon – to sell or shut down mortgage unit
First Indiana Wholesale – closed wholesale consumer lending operations
First Integrity Bank – shut down by FDIC
First International Bank – shut by the FDIC
First Lowndes Bank – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of Crestview – shut by FDIC
First National Bank (Rosedale, MS) – shut by FDIC
First Madison Mortgage – shut down
First Magnus – no longer funding or originating any mortgage loans
First Mortgage Corp. – shut down, Freedom Mortgage to acquire select assets/employees
First National Bank – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of Arizona – halts retail mortgage lending, 35 layoffs
First National Bank of Danville – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of Davis – shut down by FDIC
First National Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of Georgia – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of the South – halts wholesale lending
First National Bank of the South – shut by FDIC
First National Mortgage Sources – shut down
First NLC bankrupt, halts lending
First NLC Financial Services LLC – 645 layoffs
First Mariner Bancorp – closed its wholesale mortgage lending unit
First National Bank (also operating as The National Bank of El Paso En Espanol) – closed by FDIC
First National Bank of Anthony – shut by FDIC
First National Bank of Arizona – shut down by FDIC
First National Bank of Central Florida – shut by FDIC
First NBC Bank – shut by FDIC
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. – closed mortgage processing office in Syracuse, 14 layoffs
First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc. – acquired Gateway Bancorp
First Peoples Bank – shut by FDIC
First Piedmont Bank – shut by FDIC
First Priority Bank – closed by FDIC
First Regional Bank – shut by FDIC
First Security Loan Corp. – to shut down
First Security National Bank – shut by FDIC
First Source Funding Group – closed
First Southern Bank – shut by FDIC
First Southern National Bank – shut by FDIC
First State Bank – shut by FDIC
First State Bank (AZ) – shut down by FDIC
First State Bank (Sarasota) – shut by FDIC
First State Bank of Altus – shut by FDIC
First State Bank of Winchester – shut by FDIC
First Street Financial – closed
First Suburban National Bank – shut by FDIC
First United Bank – shut by FDIC
First Vietnamese American Bank – shut by FDIC
Fitch Ratings – to cut 150 jobs
Flagship National Bank – shut down
Flagstar Bank – acquired 52 Wells Fargo bank branches
Flagstar Bank – acquired certain assets of Opes Advisors Inc.
Flagstar Bank – cut roughly 600 jobs thanks to slowing mortgage business
Flagstar Bank – layoffs total 300 in Troy, MI due to outsourcing
Flexpoint Funding – reportedly closed wholesale division, now completely shut down
Flick Mortgage – closed
FMF Capital LLC – closed
Florida Community Bank – shut by FDIC
FNBA – wholesale division and correspondent line shut down, 541 layoffs
Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank, FSB shut by FDIC
Fortes Financial – halted lending
Fortes Financial – acquired five former National City regional wholesale offices
Founders Bank – shut by FDIC
Foxtons, Inc. – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Franklin American – suspends jumbo wholesale lending
Franklin Bank – shut down by FDIC
Franklin Bank Corp. – closing warehouse line, layoffs
Franklin Credit Management Corp. – suspends loan acquisition and origination
Franklin First Financial – shut down
Freddie Mac – cut 100+ jobs
Freedom Bank – shut down by FDIC
Freedom Bank of Georgia – shut down by FDIC
Freedom Financial – shutting down
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – acquired J.G. Wentworth Home Lending, LLC
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – shut San Dimas call center, slash 171 jobs
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – acquired RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – acquired Sterling National Bank’s mortgage operations
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – bought the assets of BluFi Lending
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – acquired Continental Home Loans
Freedom Mortgage Corp. – bought select residential mortgage assets from New York Community Bank
Freestand Financial – closed
Fremont General – exited secondary sub-prime market, layoffs
Fremont General – filed Ch. 11 bankruptcy
Fremont Investment & Loan – laid off 243 employees in Ontario, CA
Fremont Investment & Loan – cut 243 jobs in CA
Frontier Bank – shut by FDIC
Frontier Bank, FSB (El Paseo Bank) – shut by the FDIC
Frost Mortgage – partnered with First Houston
Fulton Mortgage Co. (Lancaster, PA) – cut 45 employees
FundingAmerica – not accepting any new business
Gateway Bank – suspends wholesale lending
Gateway Bank Mortgage, Inc. – ceased mortgage operations
Gateway Bank of St. Louis – shut by FDIC
Gateway Mortgage Group – acquired Farmers Exchange Bank
Gateway Mortgage Group – closed eight retail mortgage branches in California, 25 layoffs
Guaranty Mortgage (Guaranty Bank FSB of Wisconsin) – shut down
GE – mulling sale of Australian mortgage unit Wizard Home Loans
GE Money (Ireland) – halted mortgage lending, cut 80 jobs
GE Money (AU & NZ) – cut 335 jobs
GE Money Canada – to halt mortgage lending
Generation Mortgage – halted reverse mortgage lending, layoffs
Genpact Mortgage Services Inc. – cut 124 jobs in Richardson, TX
Genpact Mortgage Services Inc. – cut 81 jobs in Irvine, CA
Genpact Mortgage Services Inc. – cut 65 mortgage processing jobs in Richardson, TX
Genworth Financial – cut 400 jobs to reduce costs
Genworth Financial – cutting roughly 1,000 jobs
Genworth Financial – acquired Liberty Reverse Mortgage
George Washington Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Georgia Trust Bank – shut by FDIC
Georgian Bank – shut down by FDIC
Glasgow Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Gleacher & Company – cut 160 employees in mortgage-backed securities unit
Global Commerce Bank – shut by FDIC
Global Mortgage Inc. – to be shut down
GMAC Mortgage – cut 242 jobs in Fort Washington, PA
GMAC Mortgage – cutting 84 jobs in West Hartford, 45 in Charlotte
GMAC Mortgage – to shut all 200 retail offices
GMAC Mortgage – cut 68 jobs in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
GMAC Residential Funding (Canada) – suspended subprime mortgage origination
GMAC – in talks to sell Mexican mortgage units to Ixe Bank (Mexico)
GMAC-RFC (UK) – closed subprime subsidiary High Street Home Loans, 200 layoffs
GMAC-RFC (UK) – to halt loan origination, 130 layoffs
Gold Canyon Bank – shut by FDIC
Golden Empire Mortgage – closed wholesale division GEM Capital Funding
Golden State TD Investments LLC – filed for bankruptcy
Goldman Sachs – acquired Genesis Capital
Goldman Sachs – purchased Litton Loan Servicing
Goldman Sachs – to cut 1,500 jobs
Grander Home Loans – closed
Granite Bank – acquired Cousins Home Lending
Granite Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Great Basin Bank of Nevada – shut down by FDIC
Greater Buffalo Savings Bank – halted residential mortgage lending, closed unit
Great Southwest Mortgage – believed to be closed by parent First Magnus Financial
Greater Atlantic Bank – shut by FDIC
GreenChoice Bank, fsb – closed by FDIC
Greenpoint Mortgage – closed, 1900 employees laid off, 31 branches closed
Greenpoint Mortgage – shut servicing center in Columbus, GA, 220 layoffs
Green Tree Servicing – cut 31 jobs in Birmingham, AL
Green Tree Servicing – exited wholesale mortgage business
Green Tree Servicing and Ditech Mortgage Corp. – merge, become ditech, a Walter company
Green Tree Servicing – close Tennessee office, cut 32 jobs
Group One Lending – shut down
Guaranteed Rate – acquired Owning
Guaranteed Rate – acquired Stearns Lending
Guaranteed Rate – acquired assets/staff from Honolulu HomeLoans and Hawaii Lending Alliance
Guaranteed Rate – acquired Sun State Home Loans, Nationwide Direct Mortgage, and Arbor Mortgage
Guaranteed Rate – acquired 75 loan officers from Discover Home Loans
Guaranteed Rate – purchased the assets of FirsTrust Mortgage
Guaranteed Rate Affinity – acquired four PHH Home Loans regional mortgage origination and processing centers
Guaranty Bank (DBA BestBank in Georgia & Michigan) – shut by FDIC
Guaranty Bank – sold Shelter Mortgage LLC to CIVC Partners
Guaranty Bank – shut down by FDIC
Guaranty Bank – to exit warehouse lending
Guaranty Bank – to shut correspondent lending unit
Guaranty Financial – cut 10 percent of workforce
Guaranty Residential – layoffs
Guardian Loan Co. – shut down
Guild Mortgage – acquired Residential Mortgage Services Holdings, Inc.
Guild Mortgage Co. – acquired Cornerstone Mortgage
Guild Mortgage Co. – bought AmeriPro Home Loans
Guild Mortgage Co. – acquired Liberty Financial Group
Guild Mortgage Co. – acquired Comstock Mortgage
Guild Mortgage Co. – acquired Northwest Mortgage
Gulf State Community Bank – shut by FDIC
GulfSouth Private Bank – shut by FDIC
H&R Block Mortgage Corp. – 353 layoffs
H&R Block – to cut 505 jobs related to closure of Option One
Habersham Bank – shut by FDIC
Hanna Holdings Inc. – acquired 1st Priority Mortgage Inc.
HarborOne Bank – acquired Cumberland County Mortgage
HarborOne Bank – bought Merrimack Mortgage Company
Harbourton Mortgage Investment Corporation (HMIC) – closed
HarVest Bank of Maryland – shut by FDIC
Harvest Community Bank – closed by FDIC
Haven Trust Bank – shut down by FDIC
Haven Trust Bank Florida – shut by FDIC
HBOS – shut Mortgage Business (UK), 325 possible layoffs
Heartland Bank – shut by FDIC
Heartland Mortgage Co. – bought Merrlin Mortgage Corp.
Heartland Wholesale Funding – ceased wholesale lending
Heartwell Mortgage – closed
Heritage Bank – shut down by FDIC
Heritage Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
Heritage Bank of North Florida – shut by FDIC
Heritage Banking Group shut by FDIC
Heritage Community Bank – shut down by FDIC
Heritage Plaza Mortgage – closed
HFF Inc. – cut 57 jobs
High Desert State Bank – shut by FDIC
Highland Community Bank – closed by FDIC
High Trust Bank – shut by FDIC
Hillcrest Bank – shut by FDIC
Hillcrest Bank Florida – shut down
HMIC – closed
HPS Investment Partners – acquired Citadel Servicing Corp.
Home 123 Mortgage – closed
HomeBanc Mortgage Corp. – layoffs, filed bankruptcy, sold branches to Countrywide
Homebridge Financial Services – acquired Prospect Mortgage
Homebridge Financial Services – acquired NFTYDoor
Home Capital Inc. – closed
Homecomings Financial – to cease lending
Homecomings Financial – laid off 284, including 207 AEs
Homecomings Financial – cut 60 jobs in Bellevue, WA
Home Equity Mortgage Co. – placed in temporary receivership
Home Equity of America – layoffs
Home Federal Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Homefield Financial – closed
Homeland Capital Group – subprime wholesaler closed
Home Loan Center Inc. / Lending Tree – hundreds of layoffs nationwide
Home Loan Center Inc. / Lending Tree – cut 119 jobs in Irvine
Home Loan Consultants – closes
Home Loan Corp. – closed Expanded Mortgage Credit subsidiary
Home Loan Investment Bank – laid off roughly 30 employees
Home Loan Services (Merrill servicing arm) – for sale
Home Loan Specialists Inc. (HLS) – closed its doors
HomeLight – acquired mortgage startup Eave
Home National Bank – shut by FDIC
Home Point Financial – acquired wholesale division of Platinum Mortgage Inc.
Home Point Financial – acquired Maverick Funding Corp.
Home Point Financial – closed mortgage unit in Charlotte, 54 layoffs
Home Point Financial – bought Stonegate Mortgage Corp.
Home Point Financial – acquired mortgage originations and operations of Emery Financial
Home Savings of America – shut by FDIC
HomeStreet Bank – sold its stand-alone home loan centers to Homebridge Financial
HomeStreet Inc. – acquired Simplicity Bancorp
Home Valley Bank – shut by FDIC
Homestead Mortgage – will close its wholesale division
HomeStreet Bank – to close/consolidate 19 home lending centers, cut 127 jobs
HomeStreet Bank – cut 133 mortgage jobs
Hometown Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Hometown Lenders – acquired TotalChoice Mortgage
Hometown National Bank (WA) – shut by FDIC
Homeview Lending Inc. – layoffs, now appears to be closed
Homeward Residential – cut 370 jobs
Homeward Residential – combined wholesale/correspondent sales divisions
Homewide Lending Corp. – closed
Honor State Bank – closed wholesale lending department
Horizon Bank – shut by FDIC
Horizon Bank – acquired 1st Mortgage of Indiana, Inc.
Housevalues Inc. – laid off 160 workers, closed Yakima call center, shut mortgage lead biz
Howard Bank (MD) – discontinued its mortgage banking business
HSBC – cut 197 mortgage jobs at its Brandon, FL office
HSBC – stopped wholesale, correspondent lending
HSBC – to cut 1100 jobs
HSBC Finance – laid off 357 workers in Brandon, FL, and 150 in Chicago
HSBC Financial Corp. Ltd. (Canada) closing 30 branches, 300 potential layoffs
HSBC Holdings PLC – closing mortgage office, 600 layoffs
HSBC Mortgage – cut 80 jobs in NY
HSBC Mortgage Services (Correspondent division) – closed, layoffs
HSBC – to shut down HFC, Beneficial
HSBC – shuts down Decision One
HSBC – halts trading of mortgage-backed securities in U.S., 120 layoffs
HSBC – closing 260 consumer lending branches
HSBC Mortgage – laid off 302 employees in Jacksonville
HSBC Mortgage Services – cut 48 jobs in Virginia
HUD – to close some regional offices thanks to budget cuts, 900 employees affected
Huntington Bancshares – laid off 200 mortgage employees during third quarter
Huntington Financial – to be acquired by Oxford Funding
Huron Valley Financial – acquired Home Point Financial’s reverse mortgage business
Hypo Real Estate (Germany) – nationalized
IBM – cut mortgage jobs in Beaverton, OR
IBM – cut jobs at its Seterus loan servicing unit in Beaverton, OR
Icon Residential Lenders, LLC – sold to Rushmore Loan Management Services
Ideal Federal Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Ideal Mortgage Bankers – to exit wholesale lending, layoffs
Igate Global Solutions (India) – redeploying roughly 150 employees into other services
IKB Industriebank (Germany) – losses near $1bn as a result of subprime exposure in US
Impac Mortgage – acquired CashCall mortgage operations
Impac Mortgage – closed 23 retail branches and one fulfillment center, cut 180 jobs
Impac Mortgage – sold AmeriHome Mortgage Corp. subsidiary
Impac Mortgage – stops Alt-A lending, 144 laid off
Impac Mortgage – 350 recent layoffs, halted Alt-A loan production
Imperial Capital Bank – shut by FDIC
Imperial Savings and Loan Association – shut by FDIC
InBank (IL) – shut down by FDIC
Independent Bankers’ Bank – shut FDIC
Independent National Bank – shut by FDIC
Indymac – sold to private investor group
Indymac Federal – now OneWest Bank Group
Indymac – filed bankruptcy
Indymac – shut down
Indymac – halts most lending, thousands of layoffs
IndyMac – layoffs, branch closures
Indymac – bought retail arm of New York Mortgage Trust
IndyMac – stopped construction-to-perm lending
IndyMac – closed Ontario, CA-based operations center
IndyMac Commercial Lending Corp. – halted lending operations
ING – cut ~10,000 jobs due to mortgage losses
ING – to buy Interhyp AG (largest German residential mortgage broker)
ING Direct – exited wholesale mortgage business
ING Netherlands – cut 10 percent of jobs at mortgage unit
Innovative Bank – shut by FDIC
Innovative Mortgage Capital – closed
Integra Bank National Association – shut by FDIC
Integrity Bank – shut by FDIC
Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Georgia – shut down by FDIC
InterBay Funding – laid off 75 workers
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – purchased Simplifile
InterFirst Mortgage – shut down in 2017, relaunched in 2020
InterLinc Mortgage Services LLC – acquired HomeTown Mortgage Services Inc.
Inter Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Investaid Corp. – suspended operations indefinitely
Investors Home Mortgage – halted wholesale lending
Invitation Homes – laid off 51 in Scottsdale, AZ
Irwin Home Equity – layoffs
Irwin Union Bank –shut down by FDIC
Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. – shut down by FDIC
Irwin Union Bank & Trust Co. – stopped wholesale lending
ISN Bank – shut by FDIC
Ivanhoe Mortgage – closed
Ixonia Bank – acquired Novus Home Mortgage
Jasper Banking Company – shut by FDIC
Jennings State bank – shut down by FDIC
J.G. Wentworth Company – acquired WestStar Mortgage, Inc.
John Warner Bank – shut by FDIC
JPMorgan Chase – will cut 13,000 to 15,000 mortgage jobs by year-end 2014
JPMorgan Chase – cut 839 temporary employees after foreclosure review overhaul
JP Morgan Chase – layoffs reported in loan structuring group, CMBS group , and UW group
K Bank – shut by FDIC
KBC Bank NV (Belgium) – bought Vertical Lend
Kensington Mortgages (UK) – temporarily withdrawing from the mortgage market
Kensington Mortgages (UK) – cut 20 percent of staff
Kensington Mortgages (UK) – cut 75 jobs
KeyBank – acquired Laurel Road Bank’s digital lending business
KeyBank Real Estate Capital – halted lending
KeyBank Real Estate Capital – cut 100+ jobs
Keycorp – exited subprime mortgage business, layoffs
Key West Bank – shut by FDIC
Keys Federal Credit Union – shut down
KH Funding – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Kinecta FCU – exits third-party mortgage origination business
Kirkwood Financial Corp. – suspended wholesale originations
KKR Financial Holdings –no longer intends to invest in residential real estate
Kondaur Capital Corp. – cut 155 jobs
La Jolla Bank – shut by FDIC
Lakeside Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Lancaster Mortgage Bankers – closed
LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. – will cut 1,100 jobs (title company)
Landesbank Sachsen Girozentrale (Germany) – sold to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
LandMark Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
Law Offices of David J. Stern – to shut down, layoffs
Legacy Bank – shut down by FDIC
Lehman Brothers – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Lehman Brothers – cut 140 mortgage-securities trading jobs
Lehman Brothers cut 850 jobs
Lehman Brothers – to cut 1425 jobs globally + another 1,500
Lehman Brothers – cut 200 jobs from its UK mortgage firms
Lehman Brothers – to close UK subprime lending units SPML and Preferred Mortgages
Lehman Brothers Bank – cut 126 jobs in Lake Forest, CA
Lehman Brothers Bank – cut 85 jobs in Lake Forest, CA
Lehman Bros. Small Business Finance – no longer accepting loan applications
Lehman Bros Dutch mortgage unit “Elq Hypotheken” – ceased lending
Lend America – closed
Lenderlive – laid off 45 in Madison Heights, MI
Lender’s Direct Capital Corporation – closed wholesale lending operations
Lending group Inc. – suspended operations
LendingTree.com – closed Carmel, IN office, 64 layoffs
Lending Tree – 20% of workforce laid off (fresh ones on Aug. 17)
LendingTree – layoffs, mainly in Irvine, CA
Lennar Corp. – over 4,000 layoffs at big Miami home builder
Lenox Financial Mortgage – receives cease and desist from Georgia Department of Banking and Finance
Lexington Lending – halts wholesale operations
Levitt and Sons LLC (homebuilder) – laid off a third of staff
Levitt and Sons LLC (homebuilder) – filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy
Liberty American Mortgage – halted wholesale lending
LibertyBank – shut by FDIC
Liberty Home Lending – ceased wholesale lending
Liberty Mortgage Corp. – ceased wholesale lending
Liberty Mortgage Funding Co. – filed for Ch. 7 bankruptcy
Liberty One Lending – ceased operations
LIME Financial Services (Credit Suisse wholesale) – ceased lending
LIME Financial Services, Ltd – sold to Credit Suisse, downsized from 450 to 225
Lincoln Park Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Live Well Financial, Inc. – halted mortgage lending
Lloyds TSB – to buy Halifax Bank of Scotland for $22 billion
Loancity – closed 7 branches, shut down
loanDepot and imortgage.com – merged
loanDepot – acquired Mortgage Master, Inc.
Loans 123 – no longer taking anymore business
London & Scottish Mortgages (LSM:UK) – stopped accepting new applications
Lone Star – facing lawsuit over purchase of Accredited Home Lenders
Lone Star – to buy Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corp.
Long Beach Mortgage Co. (WAMU) – winding down operations
Long Mortgage – lost financing, parent First Magnus trying to dissolve unit
Los Padres Bank – shut by FDIC
LowerMyPayment.com – closed, mortgage lead company
Lownhome Financial – closed
LRES – acquired Lenders Choice
Luminent– layoffs, two default notices, selling equity stake to Arco Capital Corp.
Luminent Mortgage – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Lydian Mortgage – shut wholesale, layoffs
Lydian Private Bank – shut by FDIC
M&T Bank – cut wholesale mortgage jobs
M&T Bank – acquired Hudson City Savings Bank, 384 layoffs
MacQuarie Mortgages USA – halts loan origination
MacQuarie Mortgages USA – laid off 69 employees
McIntosh Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
McIntosh State Bank – shut by FDIC
Madisonville State Bank – shut down
MagnetBank – shut down by FDIC
Main Street Bank – shut down by FDIC
Mainstreet Bank (MN) – shut by FDIC
Mainstreet Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Mandalay Mortgage – closed
Marco Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Maribella Mortgage – closed
Maritime Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Market Street Mortgage – layoffs
Market Street Mortgage – to be broken up and sold in pieces, 53 layoffs
Marlin Mortgage Company, LLC – shut it doors
Marshall Bank – shut by FDIC
Master Financial – layoffs, ceased wholesale production
Maverick Residential Mortgage – reportedly closed
MB Financial – to stop mortgage lending, cut 500+ jobs
MCAN Mortgage Corporation – acquired Xceed Mortgage (Canada)
MEM Financial Solutions – filed for bankruptcy
Member First Mortgage – acquired Platinum Financial Funding
Mercantile Mortgage – ceased operations
Meridian Bank – shut down by FDIC
Meridias Capital – layoffs, rumors of employees not being paid
Meritage Mortgage – closed, staff employed by LIME Financial
Merrill Lynch – bought First Franklin
Merrill Lynch – to cut 4,000 jobs
Merrill Lynch – halted all lending at UK subsidiary Wave, layoffs
Merrlin Mortgage Corp. – acquired by Heartland Mortgage Co.
MetLife – halted reverse mortgage lending, sold servicing rights to Nationstar Mortgage
Metlife – shut down its forward mortgage division, 4,000+ layoffs
MetLife – acquired EverBank Reverse Mortgage LLC
MetLife – to buy First Horizon mortgage unit
MetLife Bank – cut 116 jobs in Irving, Texas
Metro Bank of Dade County – shut by FDIC
Metrocities Mortgage – now Prospect Mortgage
Metrocities Mortgage – stopped wholesale lending
Metrocities Mortgage – acquired Mortgage Services Unlimited
Metro Pacific Bank – shut by FDIC
MCAP Financial (Canada) – suspended subprime lending through its Eclipse division
MGIC – bought rival mortgage insurance provider Radian Group (abandoned)
MGIC Investment Corp. – cut 19 jobs at Milwaukee headquarters
Miami Valley Bank – shut down by the FDIC
Michigan Mutual – cut 68 mortgage jobs in Southfield
Mid America Mortgage, Inc. – to purchase assets of American Southwest Mortgage Corp. and American Southwest Mortgage Funding Corp.
Mid City Bank, Inc. – shut by FDIC
Middletown Valley Bank – acquired Millennium Financial Group (MLend)
Midwest Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
Millennium Bank, NA – closed by FDIC
Millenium Bankshares – closed mortgage division
Millenium Funding Group – closed
Millennium Mortgage Corp. – halted wholesale lending
Millennium State Bank of Texas – shut by FDIC
Mirae Bank –shut by FDIC
MLSG – halted lending operation
Montage Mortgage acquires Ameritrust
Montgomery Bank & Trust – shut by FDIC
Moore Lending Group – acquired by Sierra Pacific Mortgage Company, Inc.
Morgan Stanley – sold Saxon Mortgage to Ocwen
Morgan Stanley – to lay off 300 employees in securities division
Morgan Stanley – to sell City Mortgage Bank (Russian mortgage unit)
Mortgage Bankers Association – layoffs
Mortgage Capital Resource Corp. – closed
Mortgage Investors Group (MIG) – closed wholesale division
Mortgage Investment Lending Associates (MILA) – subprime wholesale closed
Mortgage Network Inc. – halted wholesale and correspondent lending
Monarch Bank – buying mortgage-related assets from Resource Bank
Morgan Stanley – bought Saxon Mortgage
Morgan Stanley – cut over 3,000 mortgage jobs
Mortgage Investment Lending Associates – closed
Mortgage Investors Corp. – cut 380 jobs in St. Petersburg, Florida
Mortgage Investors Corp. – cut 476 employees, stopped taking new applications
Mortgage Investors Corp. – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
MortgageIT – layoffs and branch closure
MortgageIT – halted wholesale lending
MortgageIT – consolidated with DB Home Lending, rumored to be offering agency loans only
Mortgage Network Inc. – acquired Partners Group Unlimited
Mortgage Next (UK) – layoffs
Mortgage Lenders Network – stopped residential loan production
MortgageTree Lending – closed, website down
Mortgages Ltd. – filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy
Movement Mortgage – acquired retail division of Platinum Mortgage Inc.
Movement Mortgage – acquired retail mortgage operations of Eagle Home Mortgage, LLC
Movement Mortgage – cut 100 jobs nationwide
Movement Mortgage – acquired First State Bank (VA)
Movement Mortgage – cut 180 jobs in Fort Mill, Norfolk, Richmond, and Tempe
Mountain Heritage Bank – shut by FDIC
Mountain National Bank – closed by FDIC
Mr. Cooper – acquired Pacific Union Financial LLC
Mr. Cooper – ceased wholesale lending operations, layoffs
Mr. Cooper – cut 109 jobs in Santa Ana, CA
MutualBank – acquired Summit Mortgage, Inc.
Mutual Bank – shut by FDIC
Mutual of Omaha Bank – closed mortgage processing operation in Lincoln, NE
Mutual of Omaha Bank – outsourced in-house mortgage origination channel to Guild Mortgage
MVB Bank – purchased Potomac Mortgage Group
MVB Mortgage and Intercoastal Mortgage Company combined
Mylor Financial – closed
National Bank Holdings Corp. – to acquire Peoples Bank, which will sell or shut its national mortgage business by the end of 2017
National Bank of Commerce – shut down by FDIC
National City – ceases wholesale lending
National City – exits correspondent lending business
National City – laid off 1,300 mortgage workers
National City – cut 50 jobs in San Diego
National City – to exit warehouse lending
National Home Equity – consolidated by National City Corp., suspended originations, layoffs
National Wholesale Funding – halted operations
NationPoint – halts loan origination, layoffs
Nationpoint – subsidiary of Merill Lynch laid off 60 people in August, 70 more in Nov.
Nation One Mortgage Co. Inc. – wholesale lender stopped origination and funding of mortgages
Nationstar Mortgage – changed name to Mr. Cooper
Nationstar Mortgage – cut 70 jobs at Lewisville, TX headquarters
Nationstar Mortgage – cut 150+ loan servicing jobs
Nationstar Mortgage – cut 105 jobs in Scottsbluff, NE
Nationstar Mortgage – closed St. Louis office, 115 layoffs
Nationstar Mortgage – sold wholesale division to Stonegate Mortgage, 1,000+ layoffs
Nationstar Mortgage – acquired Greenlight Financial
Nationstar Mortgage – purchased $10.4 billion in loan servicing rights from Bank of America
Nationstar Mortgage – acquired ResCap mortgage servicing assets
Nationstar Mortgage – acquired Champion Mortgage, closed multiple offices, incl. Denver office
Nationstar Mortgage – halts wholesale lending
Nationwide Bank – cut 50+ jobs from mortgage division in Des Moines
Neighborhood Community Bank – shut by FDIC
NBRS Financial – closed by FDIC
Netbank – shut down by FDIC due to excessive mortgage defaults
Netbank Funding – closed
NetMore America Inc. – layoffs
Nevada Commerce Bank shut by FDIC
Nevada Security Bank – shut by FDIC
New American Funding – shut down wholesale lending department in 2016
New American Funding – acquired Marketplace Home Mortgage
New Century – filed bankruptcy
New Century Bank – shut by FDIC
New City Bank – shut by FDIC
New England Merchants Corp. – received cease and desist order
New Equity Mortgage – merged with Advent Mortgage
New Fed Mortgage Corp. – acquired Commonwealth Mortgage LLC
New Frontier Bank – shut by FDIC
New Horizons Bank shut by FDIC
New Horizons Reverse Mortgage Inc. – filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
NewLeaf Wholesale – layoffs, possible shutdown
New Liberty Bank – shut by FDIC
New Penn Financial – acquired Envoy Mortgage’s correspondent lending division
New Penn Financial – acquired Resurgent Mortgage Servicing
New Penn Financial – bought Shelter Mortgage Co.
New Residential Investment Corp. – bought Caliber Home Loans
New Residential – acquired Ditech Holding’s forward mortgage servicing and origination business
New Residential – acquired Shellpoint Partners (New Penn Financial)
New Residential – acquired Home Loan Servicing Solutions
New South Federal Savings Bank – halts all mortgage lending
New South Federal Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
New State Mortgage Company – ceased wholesale lending operations
New Vision Residential Lending – to close at end of month
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. – acquired Flagstar Bancorp
New York Community Bank – cut 200+ jobs in Cleveland when it exits mortgage business
Nexity Bank shut by FDIC
Nikko Citigroup – to cut 10% of staff
Nomura Securities – closed its nonconforming mortgage conduit and laid off staff
Nomura Holdings – to shut mortgage-backed securities business, 1300 job cuts
Norddeutsche Landesbank – made offer for Deutsche Hypothekenbank AG
North Milwaukee State Bank – shuttered by FDIC
Northern Georgia Bank – shut by FDIC
Northern Rock – sold $4.3 billion mortgage portfolio to JP Morgan Chase
Northern Star Bank – shut down by the FDIC
North County Bank – shut by FDIC
North Houston Bank – shut down
Northrim BanCorp – acquired Residential Mortgage LLC
Northstar Bank of Texas – acquired Goldome Financial, Inc.
Northwest Bank & Trust – shut by FDIC
NOVA Bank – shut by FDIC
Novastar – cut 85% of their staff, gave up licenses
Novastar – closed wholesale unit, facing potentially huge lawsuit, laying off 37% of workforce
Novastar – job cuts expected from sale of servicing unit
Novelle Financial – said to have ceased operations
NVR Mortgage Finance (builder) – restricted from offering Alt-A, subprime and piggyback loans
Oakmont Mortgage – closed
Oak Street Mortgage – closed, files bankruptcy
Ocala National Bank – shut down by FDIC
Ocwen – closed facilities, cut 2,000+ jobs nationwide
Ocwen Financial Corp. – acquired PHH Corp.
Ocwen Financial Corp. – halted wholesale lending (forward), potential layoffs
Ocwen Financial Corp. – cut 800+ jobs nationwide
Ocwen Financial Corp. – bought Clearpoint Mortgage
Ocwen Financial Corp. – completed purchase of reverse mortgage lender Liberty Home Equity Solutions
Ocwen Financial Corp. – bought Kent County State Bank
Ocwen Financial Corp. – acquired Homeward Residential Holdings Inc.
Ocwen Financial Corp. – cut 300 jobs in Waterloo, Iowa
Ocwen Financial Corp. – cut 54 jobs in Fort Washington, PA
Oglethorpe Bank – shut by FDIC
Old Harbor Bank – shut by FDIC
Old Southern Bank – shut by FDIC
Olde Cypress Community Bank – shut by FDIC
OMG Wholesale – suspended operations
Omni National Bank – shut down by FDIC
On Q Financial – acquired by Guaranteed Rate
One Georgia Bank – shut by FDIC
OneCap Mortgage Corp. – license revoked
OneMain Financial – halted mortgage lending in New York state
One Reverse Mortgage – halted operations
OneWest Bank – to halt reverse mortgage lending
OneWest Bank – cut 78 jobs in Pasadena, 102 in Irvine, CA
OneWest Bank – cut 725 jobs in Austin, TX after Ocwen purchases mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)
Open Mortgage – acquired Premier Home Mortgage
Open Mortgage – acquired reverse mortgage unit from 360 Mortgage Group
Opendoor – cut 600 jobs
Opteum – closed conduit and wholesale operations
Optima Funding – reported to have ceased operations
Optimal Blue – acquired LoanSifter
Option One – shut down
Option One – layoffs, pending sale to Cerberus Capital Management LP
Option One – cut 50 jobs in Bay Area
Opus Mortgages (UK) – put into liquidation
Own It Mortgage – closed
Origen Correspondent Mortgage Group – to be shut down
Origen Financial – ceased Texas ops, cut 96 jobs
Orion Bank – shut by FDIC
Oxford Funding – acquiring Huntington Financial
Pacific American Mortgage (PAMCO) – no new submissions, halted operations
Pacific Coast National Bank – shut by FDIC
Pacific Mercantile Bank – exited the consumer mortgage origination business
Pacific National Bank – shut down
Pacific State Bank – shut by FDIC
Pacific Union Financial – closed El Paso mortgage call center
Pacific Western Bank – acquired Civic Financial Services, LLC
Palm Desert National Bank – shut by FDIC
Palos Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
Pan American Mortgage – cut 443 jobs
Paragon Home Lending – said to be shut down
Paragon Mortgages (UK) – laid off 62 Mortgage Trust staff
Paramount Bank – shut by FDIC
Park National Bank – shut down
Parkway Bank – closed by FDIC
Partners Bank – 100th bank failure of 2009
Partners Group Unlimited – bought out by Mortgage Network Inc.
Patriot Bank of Georgia – shut by FDIC
Patriot Bank Minnesota – shut by FDIC
Paul Financial – suspends loan origination
Paul Financial LLC – cut 57 jobs
Peninsula Bank – shut by FDIC
Pentagon FCU – bought TIAA Bank’s correspondent lending unit, layoffs
Peoples Bank – shut mortgage office in Westerville, OH, 31 layoffs
People’s Choice Financial Corp. – bankrupt
Peoples Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Peoples First Community Bank – shut by FDIC
People’s Mortgage – closed
Peoples State Bank – shut by FDIC
Peotone Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
PFF Bank and Trust – shut down by the FDIC
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 91 jobs in Amherst, NY
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 78 jobs in Mt. Laurel, NJ
PHH Mortgage Corp. – laid off 69 employees in Amherst, NY
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 2250 jobs in New Jersey
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 135 jobs in Amherst, NY
PHH Mortgage Corp. – laid off 130 employees at its Mount Laurel, NJ mortgage servicing center
PHH Mortgage Corp. – sale/merger to Blackstone/GE terminated
PHH Mortgage Corp. – exited wholesale/correspondent mortgage lending channel
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 33 jobs in Mount Laurel, NJ
PHH Mortgage Corp. – cut 80 jobs in Amherst, NY, eventually close office in 2017
PHH Mortgage Corp. – laid off 365 mortgage workers in Jacksonville
PHH Mortgage Corp. – laid off 140 in Providence, 300 more from NJ and FL offices
Piedmont Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Pierce Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
Pillar Processing – cut 601 employees at Long Island offices
Pimco – bought stake in First Guaranty Mortgage
Pinehurst Bank – shut by FDIC
Pinnacle Bank of Oregon – shut down by FDIC
Pinnacle Direct Funding Corp – merged with Tri-Star Lending
Pinnacle Financial Corp. – acquired by Impac Mortgage Holdings, closed
Pisgah Community Bank – closed by FDIC
Plantation Federal Bank – shut by FDIC
Platinum Community Bank (IL) – shut down by FDIC
PMI Group Inc. (mortgage insurer) – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
PNC Bank – acquired BBVA
PNC Bank – acquired National City
PNC Bank – to close Capstone Realty Advisors (commercial mortgage unit)
PNC Bank – shed dozens of mortgage workers amid refinance slowdown
PNC Bank – discontinued wholesale home equity lending
PNC Bank – to cut 5,800 jobs
PNC Bank – to cut 30 workers at loan servicing center in Dayton
Polk County Bank – shut by FDIC
Popular Financial Holdings – exited the wholesale sub-prime mortgage market
Popular Inc. – cut 167 loan servicing jobs in New Jersey
Popular Mortgage Corp. – shut down
Popular Warehouse Lending – no longer accepting applications
Portellus, Inc. (software) – winding down mortgage division, selling mortgage assets
Precision Financial Inc. – closed
Preferred Home Mortgage Co. – cut 75 jobs
Premier American Bank – shut by FDIC
Premier Bank – shut by FDIC
Premier Bank (Denver) – shut by FDIC
Premier Community Bank of the Emerald Coast – shut by FDIC
Premier Mortgage Funding, Inc – filed for bankruptcy
Premium Funding Corp. – closed
Pretium – acquired Deephaven Mortgage LLC
Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. – acquire The Executive Mortgage Group
Principal Mortgage Fund, Inc. – to buy Fair Home Lending Financial, Inc.
Priority Funding Mortgage Bankers – believed to have ceased operations
Prodigy Lending LLC – merged with The Texas Mortgage Pros
Proficio Bank (UT) – shut by FDIC
Progress Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
Promontory Financial Group – cut hundreds of employees conducting foreclosure reviews
Prospect Mortgage – acquired certain assets (Consumer Direct market) of CapWest Mortgage
Prospect Mortgage – acquired Diamond Mortgage Group
Prosperan Bank – shut by FDIC
Provident Bank Mortgage – ceased operations, 133 layoffs in CA
Provident Bank – layoffs in Riverside, CA
Provident Financial Plc (top UK subprime lender) – slashed 170 jobs
Provincial Bank – acquired United Residential Mortgage
Property Finance Group (New Zealand) – halted trading amid liquidity concerns
Prospect Mortgage – to acquire 80 Indymac branches, 750 employees
Prospect Mortgage – acquired certain retail mortgage branches of Excel Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
Prospect Mortgage – buying Fidelity Trust Mortgage Inc.
Prospect Mortgage – acquired Indymac branches
PSM Holdings, Inc. – acquired Brookside Mortgage LLC
Public Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
Pulte Homes – 2,000 layoffs
Pulte Mortgage – layoffs
Pulte Mortgage – shutting Charlotte processing center, nearly 90 layoffs
Putnam State Bank – shut by FDIC
Quality Home Loans – filed for bankruptcy, sold to hedge fund manager Michael Klein
Quick Loan Funding – layoffs, now reported closed
Quicken Loans – suspended new hiring during the crisis
Quicken Loans – layoffs (250 jobs cut in 2008)
Quicken Loans subsidiary In-House Realty – purchased OpenHouse Realty
Quicken and RockBridge – acquired One Reverse Mortgage
QuoteMeARate.com Inc. – closed
QHL Holdings Fund Ten LLC – filed for bankruptcy
R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico – shut by FDIC
Radian (mortgage insurer) – cut 7% of its workforce
Radian Group – bought Clayton Holdings
Rainier Pacific Bank – shut by FDIC
Randolph Savings Bank – cut 16 mortgage employees (8% of staff)
RAMS Home Loans (Australia) – warned of profit losses after only two weeks on stock market
Randolph Savings Bank – acquired First Eastern Mortgage
Rate Rabbit Home Loans – shut down
Ravenswood Bank – shut by FDIC
Reali – acquired online direct mortgage lender Lenda
Realty Mortgage – shut down, 300+ layoffs
Redfin – cut workforce by approximately 7%
Regions Bank – acquired EnerBank USA
Regions Financial Corp. – sold wholesale lending division to M&T Mortgage Corporation
Regions Financial Corp. – exited correspondent lending channel
Regions Financial Corp. – closed warehouse lending unit
Regions Financial Corp. – shut Little Rock mortgage servicing facility
Renasant Bank – acquired FirstBank’s wholesale mortgage division
Renasant Corp. – acquired Brand Group Holdings
Renasant Corporation and First M&F Corporation – merged
Renovate America, Inc. – laid off 71 in San Diego, CA
Republic Federal Bank – shut by FDIC
Republic First Bancorp – acquired Oak Mortgage Company
ResiCentral Mortgage – acquired One American Mortgage
ResCap – halts Dutch mortgage lending
Residential Capital LLC – filed for bankruptcy
Residential Capital LLC – cutting roughly 1,000 jobs (GMAC company)
Residential Finance of Columbus Ohio – reportedly “hacked 19 branches yesterday and a regional manager,” per reader tip
ResMae Mortgage Corp. – cut 182 jobs in Brea
ResMae Mortgage Corp. – layoffs, bankrupt/for sale, closing Dallas facility
ResMae Mortgage Corp. – halted loan submission, cut over 150 jobs
Residential Credit Solutions – closed Fort Worth facility, 134 layoffs
Residential Finance Corp. – branch closures, layoffs, per Inside Mortgage Finance
Residential Mortgage Capital – suspends operations
Residential Wholesale Mortgage, Inc. – acquires Government Loan Center
Resolute Bank – shut by FDIC
Resource Bank – selling mortgage-related assets to Monarch Bank
Resource Mortgage – shuttered wholesale division
Retreat Capital Management, Inc. – cut 73 jobs in Dallas
Reunion Mortgage – shut wholesale office in Florida
Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. – closed office in Charlotte, 79 layoffs
RFC – layoffs
Right Away Mortgage – closed
River City Mortgage to sell itself to Wintrust Financial Corp
Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast –shut down by FDIC
Riverside National Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
Riverview Community bank – shut down
RockBridge Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
Rock Holdings – acquired majority stake in Lendesk
Rock River Bank – shut by FDIC
Rooftop Mortgages (Bear Stearns UK mortgage unit) – to close
Rose Mortgage Corp. – closed
Rosemount National Bank shut by FDIC
RoundPoint Mortgage – cut 68 jobs in Rockville, Maryland
RoundPoint Mortgage – laid off 166 employees in Charlotte
Royal Bank of Scotland – laid off 24 employees in Stamford, CT
Royal Bank of Scotland – exited U.S. mortgage trading business, layoffs
Royal Bank of Scotland – cut about 300 jobs in mortgage trading business
RPM Mortgage – acquired Regency Mortgage Corp.
Ruoff Financial (parent of Ruoff Home Mortgage) – bought SBB Bancshares
San Diego National Bank – shut down
San Joaquin Bank – shut down
San Luis Trust, FSB – shut by FDIC
Sanderson State Bank – shut down by FDIC
Santa Cruz Mortgage – suspended operations indefinitely
Santander Bank – exited third-party mortgage business, 66 layoffs in Villanova, PA
Satilla Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Saxon Mortgage – wholesale closed, 1000 layoffs
Saxon – layoffs, closed correspondent unit
Saxon Mortgage – closed two loan servicing facilities in Texas, cut 680 jobs
Saxon Mortgage Services – cut 50 jobs in Texas
SCB Bank – shut by FDIC
SCME – ceases wholesale mortgage operations
SCME Mortgage Bankers Inc. – layoffs, branch closures
Scottish RE – large subprime exposure drops stock into dangerzone
Sea Breeze Financial Services, Inc. – Irvine, CA lender apparently closed
Seaway Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
Sebring Capital Partners – closed
Second Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago – shut by FDIC
Secured Bankers Mortgage Company – halted operations
Secured Funding – closed
Security Bank Corp. – has six Georgia banks shut down by FDIC
Security Bank, National Association – shut down by FDIC
Security Exchange Bank – shut by FDIC
Security National Servicing Corp. – to cut 31 jobs
Security Pacific Bank – shut down by FDIC
Security One Lending – acquired OMNI Reverse
Security Savings Bank – shut down by FDIC
Security Savings Bank, F.S.B. – shut by FDIC
Seneca Mortgage Servicing LLC – cut 43 jobs in Buffalo, NY
Senior Lending Network – no longer taking applications
ServiceLink – cut up to 53 jobs in Overland Park
Seterus, Inc. – shut mortgage servicing unit in Durham, NC, cut 310 jobs
Shearson Financial Network – to file bankruptcy
Shelter Mortgage Co. – cut 63 jobs in Milwaukee
Sherman County Bank – shut down by FDIC
ShoreBank – shut by FDIC
Shoreline Bank – shut by FDIC
Silver Hill Financial – cut 45 jobs
Sierra Pacific Mortgage – closed several branches
Silver Falls Bank – shut down by FDIC
Silver State Bank – shut down by FDIC
Silver State Mortgage – closed
Silverton Bank – shut by FDIC
Sindeo – closed its doors, majority of staff laid off
Slavie Federal Savings Bank – shut down by FDIC
SoFi – cut around 100 mortgage jobs
SoFi – cut 65 jobs at mortgage centers in Healdsburg, CA, and Cottonwood Heights, UT
Solent Mortgage Services (UK) – closing its door
Solent Mortgage Services (UK) – layoffs
Solstice Capital (HSBC retail) – halted lending, 130 layoffs
Sonoma Valley Bank – shut by FDIC
SolutionsBank – shut by FDIC
Solutions Funding – closed
Southern Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Southern Star Mortgage – cut wholesale lending
Southern Star Mortgage – halts loan origination
Southshore Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Southstar Funding – closed
Southwest Bank – acquired BMC Mortgage Services Inc.
Southwest Community Bank – shut by FDIC
SouthwestUSA Bank – shut by FDIC
Sovereign Bancorp – to cut 1,000 jobs
Spectrum Financial Group – files bankruptcy
Springleaf Finance – closed Irving, TX mortgage servicing center, 114 layoffs
St. Stephen State Bank – shut by FDIC
Starpointe Mortgage – closed
State Bank & Trust of Fargo – purchased Bell Mortgage
State Bank of Aurora – shut by FDIC
State Bankshares Inc. – bought The Business Bank of Minnetonka and its Prime Mortgage division
Statewide Bank – shut by FDIC
Stearns Holdings LLC (parent of Stearns Lending) – filed for bankruptcy
Stearns Lending – exited delegated correspondent lending, selling unit to Flagstar
Stearns Lending – acquired equity interest in Citywide Home Loans
Stearns Lending – cut 159 jobs in Orange County, CA
Stearns Lending – entered shared equity partnership deal with Certainty Home Loans
Stearns Lending – acquired wholesale, non-delegated correspondent, and consumer-direct businesses of Primary Capital Mortgage, LLC
Sterling Bank – shut by FDIC
Sterne Agee Group Inc. – acquired FBC Mortgage
Steven J. Baum P.C. – to close, 89 layoffs
Steward Financial – closed
Stewart Information Services – halted delinquent loan servicing business
Stone Creek Funding – closed
Stonegate Mortgage – closed 47 retail branch locations
Stonegate Mortgage – acquired Medallion Mortgage Company
Stonegate Mortgage – acquired Crossline Capital
Stonegate Mortgage – acquired NattyMac
Stonewater Mortgage Corp. – halts new originations, sold to Caliber Funding LLC
Strategic Capital Bank – shut down by FDIC
Southern Colorado National Bank – shut down by FDIC
SouthStar Funding – closed
Southwest Business Corp. – purchased 15 Home Loan Corp. branches
Stewart Lender Services – acquired key assets of Allonhill, LLC
Suburban Federal Savings Bank – shut down by FDIC
Summit Financial Group Inc. – closed residential mortgage unit
Summit Mortgage Co. – closed its doors
Sun American Bank – shut by FDIC
Sun National Bank – laid off 242 employees, exit residential mortgage business
Sun Security Bank – shut by FDIC
Sun West Bank – shut by FDIC
Sunset Direct Lending – closed
Sunshine Mortgage Corp. – shut down
Sunshine State Community Bank – shut by FDIC
SunFirst Bank – shut by FDIC
Sunrise Bank – closed by FDIC
Sunrise Bank of Arizona – shuttered by FDIC
SunTrust Bank – exited wholesale channel, 67 layoffs in Tampa, FL
SunTrust Bank – cut 800 mortgage employees nationwide
SunTrust Bank – closing wholesale lending offices
Summit Bank – shut by FDIC
Superior Bank shut by FDIC
Synergy One Lending – acquired BBMC Mortgage
Synovus Financial – to buy FCB Financial Holdings
Syringa Bank – shut by FDIC
Syracuse Securities, Inc. – closed, transferred loan officers and some staff to Premium Mortgage Corp.
Tamalpais Bank – shut by FDIC
TBW – to file for bankruptcy protection, around 1000 layoffs
TCF Bank – acquired Rubicon Mortgage Advisors, LLC
TeamBank – shut down by FDIC
Temecula Valley Bank – shut by FDIC
Tennessee Commerce Bank – shut by FDIC
Texas Capital Bank – exited correspondent lending
Texas Community Bank, National Association shut by FDIC
The Bank of Bonifay – shut by FDIC
The Bank of Commerce shut by FDIC
The Bank of Georgia – shut by FDIC
The Bank of Miami – shut by FDIC
The Bank of Union – closed by FDIC
The Bankers Bank – acquired Advance Mortgage Corp.
The Buckhead Community Bank – shut by FDIC
The Community Bank – shut down by the FDIC
The Community’s Bank (Connecticut) – shut by FDIC
The Cowlitz Bank – shut by FDIC
The Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Argonia (KS) – closed by FDIC
The Farmers Bank of Lynchburg – shut by FDIC
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle – cut 109 employees
The First National Bank of Barnesville – shut by FDIC
The First National Bank of Olathe – shut by FDIC
The First State Bank – shut by FDIC
The Freedom State Bank – closed by the FDIC
The Gordon Bank – shut by FDIC
The La Coste National Bank – shut by FDIC
The Lending Connection – believed to have laid off staff and ceased operations
The Members’ Own Federal Credit Union – shut down
The Money Source – cut 60 mortgage jobs
The Money Store – will take over Amstar Mortgage branches
The Mortgage Lender (UK) – cut hundreds of jobs, may cease lending
The Mortgage Store Financial Inc. – rumored to have ceased lending, laid off most of staff
The Mortgage Warehouse – closed
The National Republic Bank of Chicago – shut by the FDIC
The Park Avenue Bank – shut by FDIC
The Peoples Bank – shut by FDIC
The RiverBank – shut by FDIC
The Royal Palm Bank of Florida – shut by FDIC
The Tattnall Bank – shut by FDIC
The Woodbury Banking Company – shut by the FDIC
Thoma Bravo – bought Ellie Mae, layoffs
Thornburg Mortgage – filed bankruptcy
Thornburg Mortgage – bankrupt, 100+ layoffs
Thunder Bank – shut by FDIC
TIAA Bank – stopped retail branch mortgage lending, sold some branches to U.S. Bank
TIAA – acquired EverBank
TierOne – closed all nine loan production offices
TierOne Bank – shut by FDIC
Tifton Banking Company – shut by FDIC
Title365 – cut 70 jobs in Palm Bay, FL
Town Community Bank & Trust – shut by FDIC
Towne Bank of Arizona – shut by FDIC
TransLand Financial Services – facing involuntary Ch. 11 bankruptcy petition, layoffs
Transnational Financial Network – suspended wholesale lending operations
Triad Guaranty – halts new business, layoffs
Trident Mortgage Company – no longer accepting applications
Tri-Star Lending Group – acquired by Impac Mortgage Holdings
Trojan Lending – ceased wholesale production
Truman Bank –shut by FDIC
Trump Mortgage – closed
Trust Company Bank (Memphis, TN) – shut by the FDIC
Trustar Bank – acquired Granite Mortgage
Turnberry Bank – shut by FDIC
Two Harbors – purchased Matrix Financial Services
UBS – to cut 8,700 jobs
UBS – to cut another 2,000 jobs
UBS Home Finance – stops wholesale lending
Ulster Bank (RBS-UK) – cut 750 jobs, close First Active mortgage unit
Union Bank, National Association – shut by FDIC
Union Bank & Trust – shuttered its Union Mortgage Group subsidiary, layoffs
Union Home Mortgage Corp. – to buy NOIC/Concord Mortgage Group
Unique Mortgage Solutions – closed, layoffs
Unison –cut 89 jobs in CA
United Americas Bank – shut by FDIC
United Bank – cut mortgage loan officer jobs as part of restructuring
United Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
United Equity LLC (Baltimore) – shut down
United Guaranty – layoffs
United Residential Lending – halts wholesale lending
United Security Bank – shut by FDIC
Unity National Bank – shut by FDIC
Universal American Mortgage Co. (mortgage banking subsidiary of home builder Lennar Corporation) – acquired branches of Pinnacle Mortgage Group, Inc.
Universal American Mortgage Co. – shut down its processing center, 57 layoffs
Universal Mortgage Corp. – to close, 100 layoffs
Unlimited Loan Resources – closed
Upland Mortgage – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Urban Fulfillment Services LLC – closed mortgage processing branch in Westlake Village, CA, 85 layoffs
U.S. Bank – cut approximately 40 mortgage jobs in Brookfield, WI
U.S. Bank – exited wholesale mortgage lending
U.S. Bank – cut jobs in Owensboro, KY
U.S. Mortgage Corp. – stops retail lending
USA Bank – shut by FDIC
USA Federal Credit Union – layoffs
USA Mortgage / DAS Acquisition Co. – acquired Capital Mortgage Solutions
USA Mortgage/DAS Acquisition Co. – cut 25 jobs
USAA Bank – eliminated 265 mortgage positions in Phoenix, San Antonio, and Tampa
USAA Bank – cut 120 mortgage jobs in Addison, TX, offering relocation
Valley Bank – locations in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Moline, IL shut by FDIC
Valley Capital Bank – shut by FDIC
Valley Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Valley Vista Mortgage – shut down all operations
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance – bought Silverton Mortgage Specialists
Vantage Point Bank – closed by FDIC
Vantus Bank (IA) – shut down by FDIC
Varde Partners Inc. – bought Deephaven Mortgage LLC
Velocity Commercial Capital, LLC – layoffs reported
Velocity Financial Inc. – layoffs
Venture Bank – shut down by FDIC
Vericrest Financial Inc. – changed its name to Caliber Home Loans Inc.
Veritex Community Bank – acquired 49% stake in Thrive Mortgage, LLC
Vertex – to cut 55 jobs related to DB Mortgages account (Deutsche Bank UK)
Vertical Lend – changes name to World Alliance Financial
Vertice – shut down (Wachovia wholesale lending channel)
Vertice (Wachovia unit) – undisclosed number of job cuts in third quarter of 2007
Vertice (wholesale mortgage unit of Wachovia) – cutting 40 more jobs
Victoria Mortgage Funding – closed (UK subprime lender)
ViewPoint Bankers Mortgage – acquired 45 former CTX Mortgage employees
Village Mortgage Company – shut down wholesale lending channel
Vineyard Bank – shut by FDIC
Virgin Money U.S. – closed
Virginia Business Bank – shut by FDIC
Virtual Bank Mortgage – now Lydian Mortgage
Vision Development Group of Broward County LLC (condo developer) – Ch. 11 bankruptcy
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp. – merged with State Mortgage
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital LLC – acquired Legacy Group Lending Inc.
Waccamaw Bank – shut by FDIC
Wachovia – halted wholesale lending, 11,000 layoffs
Wachovia – closed Equibanc, 115 layoffs in bay area
Wachovia – shut Waterbury, CT retail mortgage office, 65 layoffs
Wachovia – cut 50 mortgage processing jobs in Boynton Beach, FL
Wachovia – cut 240 mortgage and banking jobs in San Antonio
Wachovia – cut 200 positions in corporate and investment banking unit
Wachovia – reportedly closed four offices in Germany due to crisis
Wachovia – stopped offering mortgages at many branches, 600 layoffs
Wachovia – shut mortgage center in Tampa, 57 layoffs
Wakulla Bank – shut by FDIC
Walter Investment Management Corp. – acquired certain assets from Residential Credit Solutions
Walter Investment Management Corp. – acquired reverse mortgage lender Security One Lending
Walter Mortgage Co. – to wind down mortgage lending
Warehouse USA – closed
Warren Bank – shut down by FDIC
WashingtonFirst – acquired 1st Portfolio
Washington First International Bank – shut by FDIC
Washington Mutual – shut down
WaMu – stopped wholesale lending, 3,000 layoffs
Washington Mutual – halted subprime lending, layoffs
Washington Mutual – laying off 50 in Capital Markets
Washington Mutual – to cut 1,200 jobs
Washington Mutual – cuts Commercial Correspondent/Wholesale Lending
Washington Mutual – layoffs, exited warehouse/correspondent market
Washington Mutual – closing 3 loan fulfillment centers, layoffs (9/12/2007)
Washington Savings Bank – stopped wholesale lending
Washtenaw Mortgage Company – closed
Waterfield Bank – shut by FDIC
Waterford Village Bank – shut by FDIC
Waukegan Savings Bank – shut by FDIC
WCI Communities – cut 575 jobs
Wealthbridge Mortgage – shut down, layoffs
Webster Bank – to cease wholesale and correspondent lending
Webster Financial Corp. – purchased Sterling Bancorp
Webster Financial – to cut 240 jobs
Weichert Financial – laid off 70+ operations staff
Wells Fargo – cut 59 mortgage jobs in Washington state
Wells Fargo – cut 68 mortgage jobs in Charlotte and Fort Mill
Wells Fargo – cut 122 mortgage jobs in San Bernardino
Wells Fargo – relocate ~350 mortgage servicing workers from Charlotte to Fort Mill, S.C
Wells Fargo – laid off 87 mortgage workers in Raleigh
Wells Fargo – cut 91 jobs in Fort Mill on soft refinance demand
Wells Fargo – cut commercial mortgage jobs in Oakland, CA
Wells Fargo – cut 100 jobs in Fort Mill, 130 in Twin Cities, and 63 at Frederick, MD office
Wells Fargo – cut 120 jobs at reverse-mortgage servicing operation in Fort Mills, SC
Wells Fargo – cut 40 mortgage jobs in Des Moines, IA
Wells Fargo – cut 115 jobs from call center in Roanoke, VA
Wells Fargo – cut 91 mortgage jobs in Fort Mill, S.C
Wells Fargo – closed Milwaukee mortgage center, cut 1,000 jobs
Wells Fargo – laid off 468 home mortgage workers in Homewood, AL
Wells Fargo – cut 763 mortgage jobs in St. Louis
Wells Fargo – cut 350 mortgage jobs nationwide thanks to higher interest rates
Wells Fargo – cut 2,323 mortgage jobs nationwide, including 365 in Birmingham, 330 in Orange County, CA, 292 in Phoenix, and 284 in Charlotte
Wells Fargo – cut 900 mortgage jobs, including 400 in Des Moines
Wells Fargo – closed retail mortgage fulfillment center in Dayton, OH, cut 63 jobs
Wells Fargo – halted wholesale mortgage lending
Wells Fargo – cut 113 home retention workers in Bellevue, WA
Wells Fargo – stops reverse mortgage lending
Wells Fargo – closed Grand Junction, CO mortgage center, 55 layoffs
Wells Fargo – cuts 4,500 mortgage jobs
Wells Fargo – halts wholesale reverse mortgage lending
Wells Fargo – cutting jobs as HARP demand falls
Wells Fargo – cutting 145 wholesale mortgage jobs in Orange County
Wells Fargo – to buy Wachovia (10/03/2008)
Wells Fargo Financial – to close 638 stores, halt origination of non-prime portfolio mortgages
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – halts wholesale non-conforming lending
Wells Fargo Alternative Lending Wholesale – closed, layoffs nationwide
Wells Fargo Home And Consumer Finance Group – layoffs
Wells Fargo – stops mortgage lending in Canada
Wells Fargo – layoffs in home equity division
Wells Fargo – layoffs in Billings, MT
Wells Fargo – shutting wholesale division in Concord, CA, 137 layoffs
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – office in Amherst, NY closed
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – acquired Pride Mortgage
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage – cut jobs in Fort Mill, SC
Wescom Credit Union – exited wholesale lending
WestBridge Bank and Trust Company – shut by FDIC
Westernbank Puerto Rico – shut by FDIC
Western Alliance Bancorp – purchased Aris Mortgage Holding Company, parent company of AmeriHome
Western Alliance Bank – acquired Galton Funding
Western Bancorp – exited wholesale and correspondent lending
Western Commercial Bank – shut by FDIC
Western Corporate (WesCorp) Federal Credit Union – placed in conservatorship
Western National Bank – shut by FDIC
Western Springs National Bank and Trust – shut by FDIC
Westside Community Bank – shut by FDIC
Westsound Bank – shut down by FDIC
WestStar Bank – acquired assets of Cimarron Mortgage Capital
West Texas Credit Union – shut down
WestWorks Mortgage – closed
Wheatland Bank – shut by FDIC
Williamsburg First National Bank – shut by FDIC
William Lyon Homes – acquired South Pacific Financial Corporation, rebranded as ClosingMark Homes Loans, Inc. (Taylor Morrison Home Funding)
Wilmington Finance – stopped wholesale lending, hundreds of layoffs
Windsor Capital Mortgage Corp. – closed down
Wilshire Bancorp – acquired certain assets and operations of Bank of Manhattan’s Mortgage Lending Division
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors – closed Melbourne, Florida office, 150 layoffs
Wingspan Portfolio Advisors – cut another 100 jobs in Monroe, LA
Winstar Mortgage – ceased operations
Wintrust Mortgage – acquired Veterans First Mortgage
Wintrust Financial – bought certain assets and liabilities from Surety Financial Services
Wintrust Mortgage – acquired mortgage business of American Homestead Mortgage LLC
Wintrust Mortgage Corp. – shut wholesale mortgage division
Wipro – purchased Opus Capital Markets Consultants
WJ Bradley Mortgage – ceased operations
WMC Mortgage – filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
WMC Mortgage – GE’s subprime unit cut 460 jobs, reported closed and for sale
WNS (India outsourcing) – redeploying employees due to mortgage shakeup
Woodlands Bank – shut by FDIC
World Savings – sold to Wachovia
WSB Financial Group Inc. – cutting 33 mortgage jobs
Wyndham Capital Mortgage – laid off 78 staff in Charlotte
XBancorp – closed wholesale
Xceed Mortgage Corp. (Canada) – stopped originating loans via brokers
Xceed Mortgage Corp. (Canada) – cut two-thirds of staff (74 jobs)
Xceed Mortgage Corp. (Canada) – cut 26 jobs, about 18 percent of staff
Xome Realty Services – cut 72 jobs in Lewisville, TX
ZAIS Financial Corp. – acquired GMFS, LLC
Zillow Offers – laid off 80 employees

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