Mortgage Biz

After Massive Layoffs, Plano’s First Guaranty Mortgage Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

By Joanna England / June 30, 2022 /

Sounds like those former employees who said that First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation was “essentially shuttered” weren’t wrong. The Plano-based lender and its affiliate, Maverick II Holdings, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. First Guaranty laid off approximately 75 percent of its workforce last Friday in a mass call, citing “significant operating losses and cash…

Plano’s First Guaranty Mortgage Lays Off 75 Percent of Workforce Citing ‘Adverse Market’

By Joanna England / June 28, 2022 /

On June 24, Plano lender First Guaranty Mortgage notified more than 400 of its employees during a virtual call that they no longer had jobs at the company. According to the company’s WARN Act filing with the Texas Workforce Commission, the mass layoff was the result of “significant operating losses and cash flow challenges due…

BREAKING: Bank of America Offering Mortgagors ‘Pause’ in Payments

By Candy Evans / March 20, 2020 /

As the nation’s economy unravels from the effects of Covid-19, here’s some good news: At least one major bank is offering consumer and small business clients mortgage relief and other consumer-friendly breaks. HousingWire reported late Thursday that Bank of America is offering clients a mortgage deferral program on loans in the bank’s portfolio: Bank of…

Mortgage Expert Hayden Hodges Makes the Move to US Bank

By Nikki Barringer / August 6, 2019 /

Alert the press (already did), Hayden Hodges has moved. Formerly with Cornerstone Mortgage, Benchmark Bank and most recently, Caliber Mortgage, Hodges is now with US Bank. Wait, they bank here in Texas? As a matter of fact, they do. They’re moving into Texas and starting with mortgage lending. Hodges was hired to build the team…

MERS and ICE: Modernization Without Regulation Increases Housing Crash Risk

By Jon Anderson / October 17, 2018 /

Remember the Great Recession and resulting cascade of foreclosures that exposed lax mortgage practices highlighted by the poster-child of “robo-signing”? At the center of it all was MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., and their confusingly-named MERS System and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Earlier this month, Intercontinental Exchange (the other ICE) acquired the remaining minority stake in…