Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. mortgage bank, will expand its presence in the United Kingdom next year where it plans to focus on mortgage lending to riskier consumers, the company’s chief executive said on Tuesday.


Countrywide of Calabasas, California is already in the UK through a joint venture with Barclays Plc, which has Countrywide processing mortgage loans aimed at the most credit- worthy consumers for the British bank.


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