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Charlotte, N.C. -- Benefiting from its acquisition of FleetBoston Financial Corp., Bank of America reported record quarterly earnings of $4.7 billion in the first quarter of this year, despite a sharp decline in mortgage lending volume.
Home loan originations declined by 26% compared to the first quarter of last year, but servicing gains helped offset lower loan origination revenue.
But the bank said that mortgage banking profits increased compared to a year earlier, and rising mortgage servicing rights appear to be one of the reasons.
Bank of America said that higher trading profits and mortgage banking income helped offset seasonal weakness in other sources of fee income.
In the first quarter of this year, Bank of America's mortgage ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Servicing Bolsters BoA's First Quarter.(Bank of America)(Brief...