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Wells Fargo may be ready for the resurrection of this year’s mortgage business as he has continued to progress with regulatory authorities when dealing with concerns about business practices in the past.
Wells Fargo was once the largest mortgage lender in Japan. passing In 2017, the rental rocket mortgage (which was known as Quicken Loans at the time) dropped from the top 10 to cope with regulation issues, branch reductions, and interest rates.
In 2022, Wells Fargo resolved a petition by the Mortgage Loan, Automotive Loan, and Inappropriate Management of Deposit Accounts for several years (CFPB), which has hurt millions of consumers over the years. I agree to pay $ 3.7 billion to do.
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Wells Fargo is also a major loan servicer, in addition to the mortgage provision, and a mortgage owner pays monthly payments. CFPB was filed For at least seven years, Wells Fargo has inappropriately denied thousands of mortgages.
In 2021, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $ 250 million to the Secretary of the Federal Currency, a federal regulatory authority.
Wells Fargo announcement On Tuesday, it was obliged to settle in 2022 with CFPB, and was released from the consent order.
The company said it was the seventh consent order closed by Wells Fargo’s regulatory authorities since 2019. Last year, WELLS Fargo was released from the 2018 consent, which resolved the accusation that existing bank customers are registered in a new account without knowledge, in order for WELLS FARGO employees to achieve their sales goals. 。
This all means that Wells Fargo has an upper limit of $ 1.95 million -will be imposed in 2018 to limit the growth of banks imposed by the Federal Reserve-. Reported by Reuters。
“Today’s development indicates that the process of lifting the asset cap is accelerating, and it seems that banks may come out this year.”
If the asset limit is lifted, it creates a jumbo mogauge in Wells Fargo over 806,500 dollars for Fanny and Freddy Mac, making a loan in most markets, and holding those loans in the book. It can give more space.
WELLS FARGO Mortgage Originations, 2020-24
Source: WELLS FARGO revenue report.
Like other lenders, Wells Fargo saw a business boom during pandemic. Housing owners were in a hurry to refinance when the mortgage rate plummeted to a historic low. Wells Fargo won a $ 223 billion mortgage in 2020 and gained more than 10 times the business ($ 20.2 billion) last year.
Some of the decline are due to the end of the pandemic era boom in refinancing. According to the data tracked by Fannie Mae, the rates of the mortgage have been recovered, and the total of US mortgage oridities has increased by 63 %.
However, because banks prioritized higher margin businesses, such as credit cards, the decrease in Wells Fargo’s role in the mortgage business was due to the choice.
In 2023, banks announced that bank customers and minority communities provide better services, and that they will not buy a mortgage loan from correspondent lenders. Lenders of correspondent -Usually, small institutions that provide funds by sending their own loans to provide funds, were later resold by larger lenders or investors, and 47 % of 2020 WELLGO’s 2020 loan production I occupied it.
Before the channel was closed, Bloomberg reported that Wells Fargo’s executives were concerned about the risks of financial and reputation brought by correspondent lending business.
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“We are not interested in getting very large in the mortgage business just to participate in the mortgage business,” said Wells Fargo’s CEO CEO, CEO, said in the 2022 revenue call. 。 “We are participating in the home lending business, because we think home lending is an important product to talk to customers, and it will ultimately decide the appropriate size. “
WELLS FARGO’s credit card business made more profits than mortgages in the second quarter of 2022, and bank executives said that there was no problem.
Recently, in the bank’s 4th quarter of January 15, the fourth quarter of the bank -Scharf has reduced the number of home rental businesses by 47 % since WELLS FARGO announced a new strategic direction in 2023. I mentioned.
WELLS FARGO closes the branch and grows on digital customers
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At the beginning of the year, retail bank branches and digital customers are counted. Source: WELLS FARGO revenue report.
WELLS FARGO ended in 2024 at 4,177 Retail Bank Branch, down 22 % from the early 2020.
However, UWM and Rocket Mortgage, the largest lenders in Japan, are investing a lot in technologies, including artificial intelligence. These investments say that in the case of a business boom, it will enable the rapid expansion of loans without hiring employment.
Wells Fargo has refused to comment on this story, but it may be in a position to grow mortgage business, even if the footprint and staffing level of the branch are decreased.
WELLS FARGO stated that in the case of the fourth quarter revenue, the number of customers accessing banks from 19 % online or mobile devices from the beginning of 2020 has increased to 36 million.
SchaRF has called for an investment analyst for Wells Fargo’s mortgage business that “profitability is higher than today and the opportunity will be improved.”
“Focusing on satisfying the requirements of consent orders, we have begun to grow consumers, small, and business banking segments and have begun to increase customer engagement,” said Skurf. I mentioned it.
Wells Fargo CFO Mike Santomassimo stated that the retail mortgage loan oscillation in the fourth quarter of 2024 has increased 31 % from a year ago.
However, the mortgage loan said, “Given the rate environment we are, it will continue to decline a little,” Santo Mashimo advised. “In the fourth quarter, there was a little refinancing activity, but it seems that the rates are backed up now.”
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