COLUMBIA, S.C. Fleet Mortgage Group will cut 550 jobs over the next 18 months, the company announced Wednesday.
The Columbia-based mortgage lender will take a $10 million charge in the third quarter to fund the cuts.
The cuts are the outcome of a four-month reengineering program, an effort which the company said identified "$40 million of pretax sustainable annual profits."
Fleet Mortgage is a publicly traded mortgage bank affiliated with Heet Financial. The company has around 4,100 employees.