January 2026

PrimeLending stays in the red, losses ease in Q4

Industry headwinds pushed Primelending, Hilltop Holding’s mortgage subsidiary through Plainscapital Bank, into the red again in the fourth quarter, the company said. Processing Content Primelending produced a pretax loss of $5.2 million in the fourth quarter, lower than the loss of $7.2 million in the third quarter and the loss of $15.9 million in the […]

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Supreme Court rejects Emigrant’s reverse redlining appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Emigrant Mortgage and Emigrant Bank in a reverse redlining case over predatory lending cases on loans originated between 1999 and 2008. Processing Content The online docket for the case has a Jan. 12 entry stating “Petition DENIED” with no other links or explanations. The loans involved were

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Waterstone Mortgage has third consecutive quarterly profit

Waterstone Mortgage accomplished a third consecutive quarter of pretax and net profitability, with year-over-year improvements in production and gain on sale. Processing Content Fourth quarter pretax income of $900,000 and net income of $656,000 for the mortgage banking segment of Waterstone Financial compared with $1.3 million and $948,000 in the third quarter, plus approximately $2

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