31. This granted the company a State Licence as a Primary Mortgage Bank within the Lagos Market. 32. Alliance & Leicester will be the smallest but most diverse of the FT-SE 100 mortgage banks . 33. It recently made its first acquisition, of a specialty mortgage bank , to help generate more fees. 34. Unlike a federally chartered savings bank, a mortgage bank generally specializes only in making mortgage loans. 35. The mortgage bank gets its $ 85M back. 36. Franchise Mortgage Acceptance Co ., Los Angeles, agreed to acquire Bankers Mutual, a commercial mortgage bank . 37. Mortgage banks added employees from September to October, even as other financial-services firms were laying people off.38. A mortgage bank can vary in size. 39. Unikredit, Unidanmark's mortgage bank , reported a 7 million kroner pretax profit, versus a loss of 1 million. 40. Mostly mortgage banks and brokerage houses, plus banks and savings and loans that have big mortgage-lending divisions.