In Brief: First Indiana Buys $321M of Servicing

INDIANAPOLIS - First Indiana Bank has bought $321 million of servicing rights from two other institutions, it announced.

The purchase will put its portfolio above $1.1 billion, said Owen B. Melton Jr., president and chief executive. He said the rights purchase was the biggest in the bank's history. "The expansion of our servicing rights portfolio is a key strategy in our plan to diversify sources of income at central Indiana's leading mortgage banker," he said.

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