MetLife announced an agreement to sell MetLife Bank’s approximately $70 billion mortgage servicing portfolio to JPMorganChase. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MetLife was advised on the transaction by K&L Gates, Milestone Advisors and Deutsche Bank Securities.

The $70 billion servicing portfolio will increase Chase’s $1.1 trillion servicing business by more than 5%.

Given MetLife’s strategic focus as a global insurance and employee benefits leader, the company decided in 2011 that a bank holding company structure was no longer appropriate. “Since that time, MetLife has entered into agreements to sell MetLife Bank’s deposit business to GE Capital, sold the bank’s warehouse finance business to EverBank, sold the bank’s reverse mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar, and ceased writing residential mortgages,” said Jim Rose, MetLife Bank president.

“The acquisition of this high-quality portfolio reflects our strategy to strengthen and grow our servicing business,” said Eric Schuppenhauer, head of Mortgage Servicing at Chase. “We will be able to provide our full range of products and services to an additional 350,000 individuals and families. We expect that many of these customers will take advantage of historically low interest rates by refinancing.”