In Brief: Fla.'s HomeSide Makes Bulk Listing on Mers

HomeSide Lending Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has registered 173,180 loans on the Mers system-the largest bulk registration on the system this year.

William Glasgow Jr., executive vice president of global loan administration at HomeSide, said his company intends to roll out the system to its wholesale customers within a few months.

Mers is an electronic registry for mortgages and loan servicing rights run by McLean-based Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., which is partly owned by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

HomeSide worked with Santa Ana, Calif.-based Bayview Portfolio Services, a Mers service provider, to prepare, execute, and record the loan assignments to the system. Bayview Portfolio is an affiliate of Bayview Financial Trading Group in Miami.

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