The company also locked a record $4.7 billion in jumbo loans and significantly increased its business purpose lending from a year ago as its revenue mix shifted toward its taxable subsidiary.

Roger Hochschild predicts consumers will keep using their Discover cards in the months ahead, particularly when shopping online.

Goldman Sachs Group posted a surprise jump in its trading business, rounding out a stellar quarter for Wall Street’s biggest banks.

The San Francisco bank reported a 26% increase in its third-quarter earnings, thanks to robust single-family, multifamily and commercial real estate loan activity in New York, Boston and its home city.

The wholesale lender has a cost structure aimed at beating the competition in a rising rate environment, Chairman and CEO Mat Ishbia said on the second quarter earnings call.

While the company's mortgage originations saw a 46% annual drop in gain on sale margin, it anticipates that annual volumes will exceed 2020 levels.

The company attributed its second quarter loss to competitive pricing pressures and GSE-imposed charges.

While the hot market’s actual and forecast home price gains were key drivers of Fannie’s results, they also present a challenge to the affordable housing mission that it’s working to address.

The digital lender, which bought Radius Bancorp in February, still expects to record a full-year loss partly because of merger-related costs. But its stock price soared Thursday after it reported second-quarter net income of $9.37 million.

States in its footprint have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Another round of shutdowns could further damage industries like hospitality that have already been hit hard by the pandemic, executives said.

Small Business Administration lenders have reported strong quarterly results, but those gains could evaporate later this year. Here’s why.

Comerica, which focuses on the energy sector, reported strong payment trends last quarter, while M&T, which concentrates more on real estate, showed deterioration. The divergence reflects varying exposures to sectors hit hard by the COVID-19 recession.

The Detroit company, one of the nation's largest car lenders, enjoyed a surge in profits during the second quarter, largely due to strong consumer demand for vehicles. But how long will the good times last?

Even though the channel helped the bank do over $2 billion in business last year, going forward it will produce loans through the traditional retail business.

More than two-thirds surveyed said they expect to make less money over the next three months as price reductions ramp up along with a market shift to purchases.

The company aims to use the additional capacity to get its non-qualified mortgage business back to producing $125 million per month, and anticipates more purchases of mortgage servicing rights, representatives said in its Q1 earnings call.

Hedge accounting will align Fannie’s reporting with competitor Freddie Mac, and will address a mismatch between the recorded value of financial instruments used to offset interest-rate volatility on mortgages and the loans themselves.

The West Palm Beach, Fla.-based lender sees an opportunity for even more growth after its deal to acquire a servicing portfolio from Texas Capital Bank.

Only $89 billion of the $362 billion in new single-family volume came from purchase mortgages.

Surging used-car prices — brought on by a combination of strong consumer demand and limited new-vehicle supply — are boosting loan yields and profits at the Detroit company.