11. A mortgage bank is also planned, the German banks said. 12. The National Mortgage Bank became a secondary player in the small, domestic mortgage market. 13. Officials of Cityscape, an Elmsford, New York-based mortgage bank , couldn't be reached for comment. 14. The winning group must loan the mortgage bank $ 500 million for a year. 15. The Countrywide takeover speculation follows two large independent mortgage bank acquisitions in recent months. 16. Abbey National is the country's second-largest mortgage bank after Halifax. 17. This halted the regeneration of capital necessary for these mortgage banks to lend money. 18. Germany's largest mortgage bank said it bought Noris Verbraucherbank GmbH from the Schickedanz Group. 19. That followed Svenska Handelsbanken AB's $ 3 billion acquisition of mortgage bank Stadshypotek AB. 20. In addition, the group is also the owner of the mortgage bank overseas departments.