Lake City Bank's Ryan L. Hart Joins IBA Future Leadership Division Board of Directors

Lake City Bank's Ryan L. Hart Joins IBA Future Leadership Division Board of Directors

Hart, who is Vice President, Commercial Banking Officer, works with commercial customers in Indianapolis and the surrounding area. He has been
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Bhopal: Aashvas, Lending a helping hand to depressed

BHOPAL: When people face something, you understand the situation better. Ashik Bharti, faced a time in his life when he was in depression and
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3 Steps for Creating a Bank Sales Training Course

With the banking market growing more and more competitive, customer service training can hardly be overestimated. Quite often, bank staff is
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Selling your home? PBC a seller's market, yes, but not as lucrative

National numbers suggest Americans retreated from buying existing homes in February, a pullback after sales in January had surged to the fastest
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Amazon Lending interest paid – Amazon Seller Forums

Amazon Lending interest paid – Amazon Seller Forums

I don't know in which forum to post this question. I have a loan through Amazon lending and need to know how much interest I've paid. I have not been
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Li Ka-Shing Signals Hong Kong Property Rebound Could Last Years

Hong Kong's richest man signaled that the property rebound that's been pushing up prices in the world's most expensive housing market could persist
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Mortgage Choice says non-bank lenders can fill investor funding gaps

“There's enough headroom from other lenders to absorb the shortfall if the [major] lenders step back a little,” he said. “There are other financiers who
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JLL CEO Says 'Resilient' London Is Top Real Estate Market

JLL CEO Says 'Resilient' London Is Top Real Estate Market

Christian Ulbrich, chief executive officer at JLL, discusses real estate as an asset class, which areas are responsible for the most money flowing into
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Santa Clarita Inventory Real Estate Report Continues To Show Low Inventory

“We don't know when this cycle will end, though spring typically brings out more homebuyers, so we're hopeful additional owners will list their property
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Meet the House Flipper Who Turned a $40K Investment into a $250 Million Real Estate Fortune …

In the clip, Torres encounters a major termite problem at one of the properties and realizes that the owners didn't budget enough to deal with it. He tells
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Sports Legends Jerry West and Fred Couples Swing Real Estate Deal

We love it when sports legends team up on real estate deals. So imagine how tickled we are to learn that Hall of Fame golfer Fred Couples has sold
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Supply of Bay Area starter homes rises, but they're still pricey

In photo, a home is for sale in Larkspur CA. According to a new analysis by Trulia, the supply of starter homes is on the rise across much of the Bay
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Big changes in Dayton-area housing market

As the local housing market picks up, the number of available homes for sale in the Dayton-area continues to fall. The improving market demand and
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Reserve Bank trapped by housing, says PIMCO

The combination of heightened sensitivity to interest rates and an elevated housing market, which has forced borrowers into taking on loans with less
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Multifamily trend has people moving to urban areas

The event was held at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and presented by the Commercial Real Estate Specialists of the Greater Tulsa Association of
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Slow activity augurs badly for property market

Slow activity augurs badly for property market

The oversupply of prime, residential and commercial properties could eventually become the market's Achilles' heel. For the market to grow, there
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Investors have $1.7T ready to deploy, and LA is their No. 1 target in the Americas

From the New York website: There's $1.7 trillion of dry powder across the globe just waiting to be deployed into real estate in 2017. Los Angeles was
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Central PA Pros: Coldwell Banker Town & Country Real Estate 3.22.17

Bob Pennington from Coldwell Banker Town & Country Real Estate discusses today's property tour, and what he would advise buyers and sellers to
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Pasco County real estate transactions for March 24

13523 Carnoustie Cir., to Aptrick J. Walsh & Marlynn W. Walsh by Moos Family Living Trust & Moos James A Trustee, $617,500, 2/28/2017.
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4 Real Estate Investment Strategies

One of the best ways to diversify your portfolio, apart from stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial instruments, is through real estate. The real
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County to build $7M volleyball complex

… Stonebridge property, but feared that increasing commercial and residential development there might push the price of available real estate beyond
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Macquarie Bank, ING respond to big 4 property lending hikes

Macquarie Bank and ING Direct are set to announce different responses to recent out-of-cycle rate rises by major lenders that will include rate rises
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Able Lending Assists Families In Fundraising Opportunities

Able lending is the only company that provides this support for business. Located in Austin Texas this small business understands the financial needs
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Kennedy Funding Financial Closes $1100000 Cash-Out Refinance Loan

Kennedy Funding Financial LLC (www.kennedyfunding.com), a large nationwide direct private lender based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, has
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In New York, Luxury Real Estate's Pied Piper

When New York found itself in the throes of the financial crisis in 2008, and home sales began to tumble, most real estate brokers scrambled to help
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Another State Street building sells. Is a redevelopment wave ahead?

State Street's less-than-great buildings are changing hands, foreshadowing potential redevelopment of modest retail sites. Real estate investor L3
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Is Bank Lending A Concern?

I have seen some angst recently over declining growth in commercial bank lending. See, for example, the Wall Street Journal: Bank loans across all
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Vicious, not so virtuous cycle of rent controls: Cohn

Overheated housing markets reduce the turnover from families that would typically move up to starter homes, freezing out future tenants. That's when
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Real Estate Agent's Kindness Goes Viral After Winning Over Two Little Girls

After a sweet encounter between her daughters and local real estate agent Dan Stevenson, she took to Instagram — posting about her experience.
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BOC's overseas lending outgrows domestic loans

Bank of China Ltd's overseas corporate loan growth surpassed domestic corporate loan growth in 2016 for the first time, signaling a new stage of
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Real Estate Values Climb Compared to February Last Year

February saw a hike in real estate values in Maine compared to the year before, but a decline in the number of homes sold. The Maine Association of
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The Decemberists Plan Inaugural Traveler's Rest Festival – Real Estate, Charles Bradley, Belle …

The Decemberists announced today the inaugural Travelers' Rest, coming to Big Sky Brewing Company Amphitheatre in Missoula, Montana on
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A positive outlook for the Italian real estate emerges from Cannes' Mipim fair

The real estate sector is trying to stage a recovery. Initially driven by big cities, the market resurgence has spread to secondary cities and properties in
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Washington Real Estate Investment Trust to acquire part of the Watergate complex

The District-based real estate investment trust plans to close early next month on its acquisition of Watergate 600, a 309,387- square-foot building at
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BRIEF-European Commercial Real Estate announces agreement to acquire German Property

(Corrects comparison to U.S. dollar in first and third paragraphs to little changed instead of stronger) * Canadian dollar at C$1.3334 or 75.00 U.S.
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These banking rules may not be doing their job on national security

These banking rules may not be doing their job on national security

The nation's largest banks are taking notice, and with the publication of a comprehensive report in late February, have added the anti-money
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5 Ways Banking Needs To Modernize For Millennials

As millennials are quickly becoming the largest population group in the United States, banks that have used the same marketing tactics for decades
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Bay Area real estate: There are more starter homes on the market… but don't get too excited

Lack of housing supply is a frustration — a constant one — for prospective Bay Area's homebuyers. With so few homes available and the region still
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Stefanini Presents its Digital Banking Expertise at the Retail Banking Conference in Miami, FL

During these three days, Stefanini will present its finance and banking offer tailored to banks for applying digital transformation, managing risk and
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Doubts grow over performance of eurozone banking watchdog

When the EU created a supervisor to police the eurozone's biggest banks at the end of 2014, it was billed as vital to protect a financial system teetering
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Citi says EU 'equivalence' regime no answer to Brexit banking question

Citi says EU 'equivalence' regime no answer to Brexit banking question … Banks in Britain can currently trade across the bloc's single market under
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Banks snub 'banking' as BBA merger heralds new identity

Britain's biggest lenders have agreed to drop the word “banking” from the name of their trade association amid opposition from building societies and
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How to cool Toronto real estate (without crashing the market)

“Action is required to cool Toronto's housing market, which continues to reach new dizzying heights,” begins a report from Jean-Francois Perrault,
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Stocks Recover As Bottom-Fishing Surfaces in Banking and Industrial Stocks

Most of the major averages have turned higher and erased their opening losses as bargain-hunting in the banking and industrial sectors lifts the S&P
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In Emerging Markets, It's Time To Dump Most Central Banks, And Their Currencies Too

On March 16, the New York Times published an article by Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, which was titled “The Fed Acts. Workers
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The Federal Reserve Interest Rates Hike Benefits Large Cap Banking Stocks

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / March 22, 2017 / Bank of America and Citigroup are two major banking stocks likely positioned to take advantage of
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Swiss banking watchdog checking on "Laundromat" reports

ZURICH, March 22 (Reuters) – Switzerland's financial watchdog is looking into a report that dozens of Swiss banks may have helped launder more
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CitiBank given whistle-blower status in banking collusion scandal

CitiBank legal representative, Isabel Goodman, confirmed that the bank had claimed confidentiality over the information. She said‚ however‚ that the
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R250 billion to transform ownership of SA's banking sector

Because banks use their own capital to finance an empowerment transaction, that financing effectively sterilises the regulated capital base of the bank.
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Norwegian wingback puts banking job on hold

Toronto FC's gain has proved to Norwegian banking's loss. One day after getting a job in a bank back home, wingback Oyvind Alseth learned he had
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Current slowdown good for banking sector: Al Ghurair

Dubai: The current slowdown in business is good for the banking sector and UAE banks would emerge strong from these challenges, said Abdul Aziz
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Readers' Corner: Banking

I have an ongoing two wheeler loan. Can I still take a personal loan from the same bank? Will I have to pay off my earlier loan before I take the
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Richmond banking on improved AFL start

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick is confident he's made the right tweaks to his side ahead of Thursday's AFL season-opener against Carlton at the
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British Banks Allegedly Helped Russian Mafia Hide Millions (HSBC, BCS)

Banking scandals have become familiar to the financial community, but even the gaff-prone investment banking sector is reeling at accusations that
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TV employee suspected of lending money to crime syndicate associate

TV employee suspected of lending money to crime syndicate associate

A Fuji Television Network Inc employee, who allegedly purchased a luxury car on behalf of a man connected to a crime syndicate, is also suspected of
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Can laneway homes take some pressure off Toronto's real estate market?

As aspiring first-time homebuyers lose hope in this insanely competitive market, architects and planners are looking at laneways as a possible solution
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Legal News; CFPB Reform Update; Fannie, Freddie, Conforming Lender Changes

A potential reform of the U.S. housing finance that is centered around Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is possible but not likely imminent. Check out
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London's Luxe Housing Market Could Benefit From Europe's Political Uncertainty

London's high-end housing market could benefit from political uncertainty in Europe and the U.S. this year despite ongoing Brexit negotiations,
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Trump administration starts from scratch on Fannie, Freddie reform

The industry shouldn't hold its breath for a complete overhaul off Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this year, according to congressional staffers cited in a
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The Fed Funds Rate: Good for the Housing Market?

Conventional wisdom suggests that rising Fed Funds rates are bad news for the still-recovering US Housing Market. And it's easy to see a scenario
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Maryland housing markets among nation's healthiest

Nationally, the report found the housing market continues on steady footing in most major markets. But there's some concern “unsustainably strong
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Moody's: A Look at the Future of the GSEs

One of the world's top rating agencies warned on Monday that sweeping or high-level changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could unleash a host
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3 Tech Trends Helping to Bring New Investors to Real Estate

3 Tech Trends Helping to Bring New Investors to Real Estate

Real estate has been a volatile market over the last decade, leaving many people wary of investing in residential and commercial properties.
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Experts: Don't read too deep into February's existing home sales drop

“Strong consumer confidence in the housing market should keep existing home sales from sliding in the coming months, with homebuyers also seeing
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Local Realtor, Steven Galindo, Releases March 2017 Statistics Video For Pasadena Real Estate

“Since most people don't have time to research real estate trends for knowing this, I've taken the liberty to edit a video that runs through the most
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Metro Denver had more starter homes for sale at the beginning of 2017, but still not enough

There were 25 percent more starter homes available in metro Denver at the start of 2017 than at the start of 2016, and about a fifth more trade-up
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Tight supply, higher prices weigh on US home sales

WASHINGTON • U.S. home resales fell more than expected in February amid a persistent shortage of houses on the market that is pushing up prices
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John Hewson: The housing market is in a bubble

Australia's housing market is definitely in a bubble, according to economist and former Liberal leader John Hewson. Speaking as part of a panel
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Just the facts: Ottawa beefs up spending in federal budget for data collection on the housing market

Housing prices in Vancouver have cooled this year because the B.C. government has introduced a tax directed at foreign purchasers. The tax was
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Securities Lending Seeing Higher Demand from Institutional Investors

Securities lending is a way for institutional investors to generate incremental revenue for their portfolios by lending out their securities for collateral.
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Expert says rising mortgage rates will be good for the housing market

Sharga also believes that higher rates will cause lenders to loosen some of the tight underwriting standards that have plagued the housing market the
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FHFA House Price Index (HPI) Flat in January

The FHFA seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index (HPI) was flat in January, but showed house prices were up 5.6% year-over-year.
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ERA Real Estate Recognizes ERA Wilder Realty As 2016 Circle of Light for Community Leadership …

ERA Real Estate, a leading global real estate franchisor, recently recognized ERA Wilder Realty, which has 10 offices in South Carolina, for its
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Existing-home sales tumble as tight inventory chokes housing market

Sales of previously owned homes tumbled in February as the housing market remained choked by tight inventory. Existing-home sales were at a 5.48
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South Florida home sellers still in control as prices rise in February

South Florida's housing market may not be as frenzied as it was a few years ago, but the February figures from local Realtor boards show that sellers
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Phoenix Lending Survey Results Continues the Trend of a Positive Outlook on the US Economy

PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwired – March 22, 2017) – From the first quarter Phoenix Management “Lending Climate in America” Survey, results
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Banks threaten shift from customer lending in push against rate cap law

Internet. KBA chief executive Habil Olaka at a past media briefing in Nairobi. FILE KBA chief executive Habil Olaka at a past media briefing in Nairobi.
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This Common Mistake Can Kill Your Mortgage

In order to qualify for a mortgage, you need to show your lender that you have a down payment and access to funds for closing. This money needs to
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SEC suspends licenses of 84 lending companies

The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended the registration certificates of 84 lending companies as a part of a crackdown against the
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St. Paul's apartment project stirs concerns about lack of affordable downtown housing

St. Paul's apartment project stirs concerns about lack of affordable downtown housing

Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership's president, noted that the transformation of the downtown housing market was a vast
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The Most Popular Millennial Housing Market Is …

Where are the Millennials looking to buy a home? According to Realtor.com, the answer is a mix of the usual Millennial magnet cities and a few
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Low Inventory, Higher Prices Continue In Central Ohio Housing Market

The group Columbus Realtors says there were 4,286 Central Ohio houses or condos for sale in February. That's down more than 20 percent from last
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Speculators super-heating the Toronto real estate market

Speculators are buying up residential real estate all around the Greater Toronto Area and possibly pushing house prices into bubble territory.
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Looming budget black hole caused by housing crisis

“Not only do the emerging trends in Australia's housing market spell trouble for those who will be entering retirement over the next three or four
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Ohio, US home sales dipped in February amid rising prices, inventory concerns

Home sales stumbled in February, based on seasonally adjusted annualized figures released Wednesday. Economists blamed low inventory and
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MARKET SNAPSHOT: Stock Market Extends Losses After Biggest Drop In Months

Markets have given themselves no room for error if the obvious policy … -as-tight-inventory-chokes-housing-market-2017-03-22)as the housing market
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FinTech Auto Lender TREND Financial Celebrates its 5-year Anniversary

Established by a small team of automotive leasing professionals, over the past five years TREND has grown not only its lending spectrum (to include
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Opinion: Why the Fed paid banks not to lend

If the Federal Reserve has made a decision as to when and how it plans to pare its $4.5 trillion balance sheet, Chairwoman Janet Yellen gave no hint
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P2P lending news roundup 22/03/17

P2P lending news roundup 22/03/17 … The most important stories and data from the world of P2P lending and alternative finance.
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SEC suspends 66 firms and 18 partnerships

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had so far suspended 66 companies and 18 partnerships in a bid to wipe out all informal lenders in
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US existing home sales fall from 10-year high

U.S. home resales fell more than expected in February amid a persistent shortage of houses on the market that is pushing up prices and sidelining
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Fear Drives Housing Prices Up

The price of real estate in Iceland is no longer driven by increased purchasing power, but rather by a lack of housing and the fear that the housing
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UK pension funds embrace alternatives

UK public sector pension funds are jostling to expand their alternatives exposure as a way to diversify their portfolios ahead of the launch of the Local
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For Oahu's hot housing market, limited supply leading to soaring demand

There's no denying Hawaii's housing market is hot, but especially so right now in one Windward neighborhood, according to a recent update from the
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Mid-market sales still strong, but overall home sales in South Florida struggle

While the overall housing market in Miami-Dade struggles, the middle of the market for single-family homes is hot. The number of sales for
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Priced out of Denver? Don't go running to the burbs for sticker-shock relief, report says

If Denver's red-hot real estate market has you seeking sticker-shock relief in the suburbs, you may be in for a nasty surprise. According to a recent
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Tight housing market hits entry-level buyers the hardest, analysis finds

A real estate agent hands out information on a home for sale during an open house in San Francisco, California. The housing market is starved of
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Florida Realtors®: Fla.'s Housing Market Continues to Show Rising Prices in Feb. 2017

ORLANDO, Fla., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Florida's housing market continued to report a tight supply of homes for sale and rising median
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Housing market confidence rises in the US, but is down on a year ago

Some 80% of home owners are positive about the market, up from 78% in December 2016 but down from 82% a year ago, according to the research
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Lending rates for March provided

Lending rates for March provided

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's or USDA Commodity Credit Corporation or CCC announced interest rates for March
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Ally will pursue profits over market share, lender says

Ally Financial will stick with a strategy of raising rates and getting tougher on approvals in some auto-loan niches in 2017, sacrificing volume for higher
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Freshbooks Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Aren't Into Alt Lending

It's not surprising that the latest research from SME accounting firm Freshbooks reveals that entrepreneurs often struggle to gain the expertise and
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Asia under the microscope

Each time the industry is hosted by the Pan Asian Securities Lending Association (PASLA) and the Risk Management Association (RMA) for their
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Beware Antitrust Risks In Syndicated Lending

Puja Patel With increasing regularity, companies are financing their corporate activities with syndicated lending, a financing arrangement in which a
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Goji Announces Diversified P2P Lending Bond

Specialist provider of P2P and marketplace lending products and services, Goji, announced on Wednesday it is launching a diversified peer-to-peer
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Online Small-Business Lending Is Set to Bounce Back

While some lenders stumbled in 2016, I see borrower demand continuing to be strong. Here's one prediction: Expect a record year in originations.
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New scheme for housing construction lending under consideration in Belarus

The money will be sufficient to commission up to 100,000m2 of housing using state support without raising the bar on directed lending. The money will
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'Drastic' slowdown in C&I lending – UBS

The slowdown in bank commercial and industrial lending is “drastic by any recent point of comparison,” says UBS's Stephen Caprio. Putting numbers
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Jail sentences for P2P lending scam

Miao and Lai were found to have used Baiyin's name to open outlets across the city since December 2012 and establish the P2P lending platform
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Comment: Time to patch up differences in specialist lending

For example, we talk a lot about specialist lending in terms of how much it has helped certain clients to obtain decent finance options. But there is a
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Fannie, Freddie Overhaul Won't Happen This Year

A Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) overhaul is now not expected to make it into this year's legislative calendar, Congressional staffers
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Kirwan lending a helping hand to Nepal rebuilding project

All Black great Sir John Kirwan, left, and Nelson man John Gully, in Nepal, where Gully has carried out numerous building projects. Kirwan will speak
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A Mortgage Specifically for Doctors

Why is their a mortgage targeting doctors, you ask? While the average physician earns $187,200 per year—one of the highest salaries in the nation,
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Fannie And Freddie Shareholders Shouldn't Expect Resolution In 2017

A According to Congressional staffers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors will likely be waiting until at least 2018. Fannie and Freddie shares
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Fintech lending start-up Qbera launches operations in Bengaluru

Fintech lending start-up Qbera, which offers personal loans to salaried professionals who earn a net of at least ₹20,000 a month, has launched its
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Trends Increasing Demand for Securities Lending

Interest rate moves, changes in collateral and ETF usage is driving a higher demand for securities lending programs from institutional investors, such
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Goji launches P2P lending bond

Goji's Diversified Peer-to-peer Lending Bond claims to be the UK's first diversified peer-to-peer lending proposition with a portfolio of loans from a
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Tanzania cuts commercial bank reserve ratio to boost lending

[nL5N1F00YT] The economy has seen a steep decline in lending by commercial banks to key sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, transport
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The Next Move on Fannie and Freddie Won't Come from Capitol Hill

As Reuters reports today, Members of Congress know they will not take up an overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this year. The Trump
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Black Knight: Arizona Real Estate Continues Trend of Strong Gains from Crisis Years; Changing …

Black Knight: Arizona Real Estate Continues Trend of Strong Gains from Crisis Years; Changing …

“As a leading provider of real estate, title and mortgage data, Black Knight has been tracking the mortgage and housing markets for decades now,”
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Property Trends

Buying and selling real estate in Keller and neighboring cities is “a good market, but a stressful one,” says Jackie Black, broker/owner of Texas Best
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