Cincinnati-headquartered Fifth Third Bank announced plans to hire 950 people to fill positions in its retail banking centers, mortgage and operations centers. The company’s footprint spans 10 states – Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia. The bank seeks to fill 500 positions in
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With the housing industry at large raising alarms about mortgage servicers’ desperate need for liquidity as more borrowers are requesting forbearance, the nation’s largest mortgage aggregator is now warning originators that it could force them to buy back loans that go into forbearance. Late last week, PennyMac, which grew last
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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in the “Industry Warriors” series, a collection of profiles on veteran real estate professionals and loan originators who produced high volumes pre-9/11 and pre-2008, weathered those economic downturns and rebounded even stronger. With nearly 30 years in the mortgage industry, Mark Dodson has
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