CRM, Ops, Consumer Direct, AE, LO Jobs; JV and MSA Updates; Redwood Trust Results; CFPB Action Apr 30 2021, 8:26AM
How are we 1/3 done with 2021 already? Few are sitting on their hands as the months roll on. Exxon had its first profitable quarter since 2019. Fannie Mae posted its first quarter results this morning: $5.0 billion net income for the first quarter of 2021 (compared with $4.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 2020), and its net worth increased to $30.2 billion as of March 31, 2021. In regulatory news, the CFPB took action against a reverse mortgage lender for deceptive advertising. And in IRS news, you don’t need new taxes if you enforce the old ones. Lots of loan officers made a lot of money in 2020, but you’ll need a net worth greater than $4.4 million to be in the top 1 percent in the U.S., and I mention this because the IRS and the Biden Administration believe that as much as $1.4 trillion in additional revenue could be raised with mo