With loan production waning and profit margins thinning, investment bankers and warehouse ex-ecutives far and wide have been expecting a tsunami of mortgage-related mergers and acquisitions to sweep the industry. If there’s a big wave, it’s still out at sea.
With originations slowing and scores of lenders pondering exit strategies, Panorama Partners is poised to make a big splash as a buyer of companies in the quarters ahead, according to Eric Egenhoefer, who’s teaming up with the private equity firm.