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...Earnings at Wells Fargo jumped 9 per cent in the fourth quarter, despite an increase in loan loss provisions, as the US bank cut costs....
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...Ryan Etchells, chief commercial officer at Together, a specialist mortgage provider that is one of the UK’s largest non-bank lenders, says short-term fixes fitted a pattern of home ownership in the UK where...
...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to a reading of 37, up from 34 in October, marking the first increase in four months....
...The index, which tracks the proportion of lenders reporting an increase in demand for home loans versus those reporting a decrease, rose to 35.9 in the first quarter, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly...
...The average two-year mortgage with 60 per cent loan to value was 4.62 per cent in February, according to the central bank....
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...Scharf, who took over the top job at the bank in 2019, has been focused on getting that cap, which has been a significant drag on Wells Fargo’s operations, removed....
...Wells Fargo is setting aside as much as $1bn for “unanticipated severance” in the last three months of the year, the bank has said....
...Former Wells Fargo chief executive Tim Sloan, who led the bank’s early efforts to address a burgeoning fake accounts scandal, has sued the lender for more than $34mn over its decision to cancel stock grants...
...Already, there has been an uptick in new mortgage applications and pending home sales....
...But it jumped 34 per cent at JPMorgan to $89.7bn, more than double the increase of the next bank, Wells Fargo, which reported a 16.5 per cent rise....
...Workers at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Albuquerque on Wednesday voted to form a union, making them the first employees of a major US bank to unionise in the latest sign of the resurgence of the labour movement...
...The data comes against a backdrop of recent volatility in the mortgage market. Home loan rates peaked in the summer of 2023 before declining sharply at the end of last year....
...Brexit and mortgage regulatory changes also played a role, according to Richard Donnell, executive director at property consultancy Houseful....
...Mortgage brokers have welcomed an “innovative” home loan aimed at first-time buyers, which requires a deposit of just £5,000 for homes worth up to £500,000....
...The jump in interest rates to the highest levels in decades has led to a big increase in mortgage scams, according to banks and regulators....
...Other top banks Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo also recorded drops in lending in the first three months of the year as they revealed results late last week....
...It follows a sharp rise in mortgage costs over the past three years as the bank has battled rising inflation....
...Over the past two years, big banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo charged more for loans in lockstep with the Fed lifting interest rates, without passing on the increase...
...A number of UK lenders have announced mortgage rate increases in a sign that the race towards more competitive offers is slowing, as the prospect fades of imminent Bank of England interest rate cuts....
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