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Is Revlon chief Ronald Perelman ready to sell Golden State Bancorp here, which owns the nation's ninth largest residential servicer? Golden State isn't talking, but at least one stock analyst has suggested that the thrift - the nation's second largest - would make a nice little purchase for Citigroup, which owns CitiMortgage, St. Louis, the nation's 12th largest 'A' paper lender, and Associates First, the number one subprime lender and servicer in the U.S.
Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jonathan Gray suggested recently that GSB "has historically expressed a willingness to consider" a sale to maximize shareholder value, but he admits that he has no knowledge of any talks between Citi and GSB.
GSB is the parent of First Nationwide Mortgage Corp., Frederick, Md., which ranks ninth among residential servicers with $114 billion in receivables, and 16th among originators.
Both GSB and FNMC have been mentioned in the past as takeover candidates. Last week both GSB and Citi declined comment, as did First Nationwide chief ...