In Brief: Help Firm for Servicers Signs Up Its 1st Client

Customers Forever LLC, a venture solely designed to help servicers keep customers, said it has signed up its first client, Temple-Inland Mortgage Corp. of Austin, Tex.

Temple-Inland services $23 billion of loans. Customers Forever was founded this year by veteran mortgage executive K. Terrence Wakefield with backing from Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. and Marshall & Ilsley Corp. Mr. Wakefield helped build the mortgage operations of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, which were sold to Norwest Mortgage in 1996.