Brief history
Countrywide is a diversified financial services company with mortgage banking at its core, founded in 1969 by two New Yorkers, Angelo Mozilo and David Loeb when they started the Countrywide Credit Industries. Expansion began in 1979, and by the next year, Countrywide had 40 offices in downtown Los Angeles, and in 1981, Countrywide Securities Corporation, a broker-dealer subsidiary that would sell securities backed by loans made was formed.
Countrywide hit the $1 billion mark in loan servicing in 1984. In 1985, Forbes Magazine listed Countrywide as one of the 200 Best Small Companies, and in 1987, Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Stocks of the Year ranked the company at 37th. During this period, Countrywide moved its headquarters to Pasadena, California.
In 1992, Countrywide launched House America, a formal affordable lending program, intended to reach out to minority communities, and low and moderate income citizens as a solution for homeownership. By 1995, the Consumer Markets Division was started, an approach to reach out directly to consumers. In the year that followed, Countrywide launched the Home Equity Lending Division and Full Spectrum...
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