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Regions Merger with Union Planters Creates a Top 20 Servicer.(Brief Article)

Mortgage Servicing News

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When Regions Financial here merges with Union Planters Corp., Memphis, Tenn., it will create a Southeast-based regional mortgage giant that will rank 20th among all residential servicers nationwide, according to figures compiled by Mortgage Servicing News.

The merger also will create the nation's 28th largest residential funder.

Once the deal is completed, the new bank will have at least $45 billion in residential servicing rights on its books and the capacity to fund $25 billion a year in home mortgages. (Both figures are based on third-quarter numbers.)

Union Planters Mortgage, a subsidiary of the bank, is the largest lender in the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area with a market share of 5.07%.

But in the Birmingham MSA, Regions Mortgage, the bank's affiliate, is ranked fifth behind Countrywide Home Loans, New South Federal Savings, ...

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