Since then, the business has expanded to include insurance, online banking, mortgage operations, and commercial finance.

Block's largest business remains tax services, but it also has a large mortgage operation, which has its own problems.

He said last week that the new posts expanded his duties to include Norwest's venture capital and mortgage operations.

Two months later, it bought Barnett Banks' mortgage operation.

It is unclear whether Cerberus will combine its mortgage operations into one company or operate them autonomously.

During the same year, NetBank's mortgage operations suffered greatly.

The company, which financed or leased 558,000 vehicles in the quarter, said its automotive financing, insurance and mortgage operations were improved over last year.

He worked for 24 years at Citicorp, ultimately running its branch banking and mortgage operations in the United States.

Financed by the profits from his mortgage operation, Mr. Rouse began to develop shopping centers himself.

Washington Mutual has previously stumbled as it tried to consolidate the back-office systems of seven mortgage operations it acquired in 2000 and 2001.

Like Sears before it, PNC sees the mortgage operation as a way to add new sources of revenue.

The software was developed several years ago when G.M.A.C. expanded its commercial mortgage operations overseas.

Several of J.P. Morgan's main business lines showed weakness in the quarter, especially its investment banking, trading and mortgage operations.

In February 1979 Gutfreund placed Ranieri officially in charge of the entire mortgage operation.

According to New Century, Bear Stearns is among the firms with a "longstanding" relationship financing its mortgage operation.

The transaction will also include selected property and equipment necessary for Goldome's residential mortgage operations, said Thomas C. Brown, the company's executive vice president.

Mr. Reissman and the bank's directors were in California yesterday, where Crossland has a data processing company and a large mortgage operation.

The mortgage operations for Churchill Investments Group is headquartered in New York at the 1221 Avenue of the Americas.

If rates drop, why would I want you to go to Countrywide" for refinancing, Mr. Riley asked, referring to one of the nation's biggest mortgage operations.

The 1991 earnings, showing the results of G.M.A.C.'s financing, insurance and mortgage operations, reflect the addition of $332 million that resulted from a change in accounting standards.

Resource Mortgage Capital Inc. agreed yesterday to sell its single-family mortgage operations to Dominion Capital Inc. for $67 million.

The Regent Centre site also contains the headquarters of Virgin Money's savings and mortgages operations (formerly Northern Rock) and Partnership House.

Costs related to 1,660 layoffs and a write-down at its mortgage operation in the United States lowered the fourth-quarter earnings of Royal Bank of Canada by 31 percent.

Mr. Hay said that cutbacks in the company's mortgage operations were needed because a decline in household formations in the next 20 years would probably shrink demand for home mortgages.

When the Government agencies that buy such loans responded by tightening their own credit requirements, Citicorp quietly shrank its mortgage operations and consolidated them in Weehawken, N.J.