Wells Fargo & Co., aiming to translate home-lending clout into bigger profits, is building a team to package and trade mortgage-backed securities and curb reliance on Wall Street firms as a market recovery takes hold. The lender named Mike Buttner to head the residential loan- backed securities unit and expanded its mortgage-bond desk to 30 employees from five, Tim Mullins, 45, head of fixed-income trading at the San Francisco-based company, said in an interview yesterday. The bank expects the market for securitizations to strengthen by year’s end after investor demand for loans lacking government guarantees collapsed during the credit crisis.
0 minute readWells Fargo expands mortgage-bond team, readies for market turn
April 30, 2010, 1:01pm
Diana Golobay was a reporter with HousingWire through mid-2010, providing wide-ranging coverage of the U.S. financial crisis. She has since moved onto other roles as a writer and editor.see full bio
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Diana Golobay was a reporter with HousingWire through mid-2010, providing wide-ranging coverage of the U.S. financial crisis. She has since moved onto other roles as a writer and editor.see full bio
