Tag Archives: Banking Reports

Bank of America Corp. and the Justice Department are close to an agreement in which the bank will pay between $16 million and $17 million to resolve alleged mortgage misconduct by the bank. The bank has also agreed to pay $9 billion in cash to the federal government, various government …

California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that a $550 million settlement has been reached between the state and federal government and SunTrust Mortgage. The three-year settlement, which affects 47 other states, will provide payments to some California residents related to foreclosure and servicing abuses and mortgage origination, according to …

The Inland Empire’s mortgage crisis continues to ease. The rate of foreclosures on outstanding loans in the two-county region fell nearly one percentage point in January compared with January 2013, according to report originally published in The Press-Enterprise. That was below the national foreclosure rate of 1.97 percent during the …

California announced this week that it has reached a settlement with Ocwen Financial and Ocwen Loan Servicing in connecting with Ocwen’s violation of loan servicing laws. The settlement requires $2 billion worth of loan modifications for homeowners whose mortgages are being handled by Ocwen if those mortgages are in default …

Mission Oaks Bancorp. in Temecula will merge with Santa Rosa-based AltaPacific Bancorp. The transaction, announced earlier this week, is an all-cash arrangement worth an estimated $3.5 million, according to a report that was first published by The Press-Enterprise. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter. AltaPacifica bought …

CVB Financial Corp., the parent company of Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank Arena, have announced record earnings for 2013. Net income for the year was $95.6 million, or 91 cents per diluted share, the highest in CVB Financial’s history, according to the company’s earnings report for the year, which was released …