Lending Your Credit Card to Someone Else Is Probably a Bad Idea

Lending Your Credit Card to Someone Else Is Probably a Bad Idea

Family and friends lend out about $89 billion in cash each year. More than a third of that total is used to help finance a new business while 6% of first-time home buyers get help from (usually) their parents. About a quarter of those loans were never paid back at all and more than 40% were only paid back
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LO Mark Pugliesi Joins Top Vine Mortgage

“Mark came to Top Vine for his own home refinancing, and we immediately connected,” said Top Vine Mortgage Managing Partner Vincent Cervo. … In addition, Top Vine Mortgage Services recently was named one of the “Best of the Best” for Mortgage Brokers in the Courier News and Home News
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Saudi crown prince seeks solution to banks' $2.6 billion Islamic tax row: sources

It follows disclosures by major Saudi banks in recent weeks that the government's General Authority of Zakat and Tax (GAZT) is asking them for additional payments of zakat – the name of the tax – for years going back as far as 2002. In some cases, the demands exceed half of a bank's annual net profit.
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Riverview Promotes Steven Plambeck to Chief Lending Officer

VANCOUVER, Wash., March 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Riverview Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ GSM:RVSB), the holding company for Riverview Community Bank (the “Bank”), today announced the promotion of Steven Plambeck to executive vice president and chief lending officer. In his new capacity
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Navistar International (NAV) Lifted to Strong-Buy at Zacks Investment Research

Navistar International logo Navistar International (NYSE:NAV) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report issued on Tuesday, February 20th. The brokerage currently has a $44.00 target price on the stock. Zacks Investment Research's
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The Best Market for First-time Homebuyers Is …

Newcomers to the housing market have their best chances to find affordable homeownership in the Sunshine State or Lone Star State, according to new data from Zillow. In a ranking of the 35 largest U.S. housing markets based on where first-time buyers have the best chance to find an affordable home
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Banking regulator warns major cyber breaches are 'probably inevitable'

A major cyber breach at an Australian financial institution is “probably inevitable”, and such an attack could even wipe out an entire business in the “worst case scenario”, the financial regulator has warned. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on Wednesday urged banks, insurers and
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Florida Leads the Nation in Home Insurance Costs

According to a new study from Insurance.com, Florida homeowners pay an average of $3,575, which is 191 percent higher than the national average of $1,228. Other states with higher-than-average home insurance costs are Louisiana ($2,979, or 143 percent higher), Oklahoma ($1,265, or 116 percent)
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Why Gary Cohn Was Right About Tariffs

Jeb Hensarling told Fortune, “one that makes shelving, and one that makes steel buildings. And they're very concerned that their input prices will go up.” In those basic, highly competitive businesses, it's likely that only part of those increases will go to prices. The balance will hit profits. And as earnings
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StanChart Reaches Provisional Agreement to Sell Real Estate Unit to Actis

A logo of Standard Chartered is displayed at the financial Central district in Hong Kong, China November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip Reuters. LONDON (Reuters) – Standard Chartered has reached a provisional agreement to sell its real estate investment unit to private equity firm Actis, the bank's
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Jumbo Mortgages See New Conforming Loan Limits in 2018

When you set your sights on a pricey home — or an average home in a pricey area — a traditional mortgage may not be enough. A jumbo loan could be the answer, but you may need a higher credit score and bigger cash reserves, among other things, to qualify. Do you need a jumbo loan? You may if
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Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC Sells 39745 Shares of Encore Wire Co. (NASDAQ:WIRE)

Encore Wire logo Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC cut its stake in Encore Wire Co. (NASDAQ:WIRE) by 3.9% in the fourth quarter, … The Company is a supplier of building wire for interior electrical wiring in commercial and industrial buildings, homes, apartments, and manufactured housing.
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Decline and fall of ABLV's banking empire

The Baltic Center for Invetigative Journalism, Re:Baltica, has produced a piece tracing the timeline of the recent collapse of ABLV bank. Titled How Americans Took Down A Latvian Laundromat, the lengthy piece rounds up most of the known facts about the curious and occasionally chaotic way in which
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MGX Minerals Retracts and Clarifies Disclosure

The Company wishes to retract the title of the article and any information that states or suggests “MGX Minerals Issues $1 Billion Dollar Life-of-Mine PEA for a World-Class Magnesium Project in British Columbia” as the Net Present Value of the project, as disclosed by the Company in a press release
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Hunt Mortgage Group Expands Seniors Housing and Healthcare Lending Platform With Several …

“The addition of a dedicated unit focused exclusively on seniors housing and healthcare, in conjunction with our existing FHA production team, positions us well to make tremendous headway in this sector.” The new team will target expansion into the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac senior space, and Hunt
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Oprah Just Sold Part of Her Weight Watchers Stock. Here's Why

Oprah Winfrey, who spurred a comeback at Weight Watchers International Inc. when she bought a stake in the company in 2015, has sold part of her holdings. The media mogul unloaded the shares to diversify her investment portfolio and also donated some to charity, according according to the
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The US Housing Market Gets the Jitters

The U.S. housing market may be starting to get volatile. Fannie Mae's latest Home Purchase Sentiment Index report found that consumer confidence in housing took a hit in February. The worry seems to be stemming from some general upheaval at the federal financial level. “Volatility in consumer
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RBS in $500M Settlement Over RMBS Sales

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has reached a $500 million settlement with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) related to charges of the financial institution's practices and misrepresentations to investors regarding residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) that were issued prior to the
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Angel Oak Adds Six New AEs

Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions has announced the addition of six more Account Executives to help brokers grow their business. Adding additional coverage across the country, Dee Buckley has joined Angel Oak in Atlanta; Dino Biorac, Eric Olson and Gigi Bronstrup in the Los Angeles area; Christina
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Buy banking, green and consumer stocks, says UBS, based on Two Sessions

With China's annual legislative and political advisory meetings in full swing in Beijing, leading analyst UBS Group has been busy reading between the lines of the documents released from the Two Sessions, for stock investment opportunities. It is now tipping stocks in the banking, environment protection
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Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ:MDLZ) Shares Sold by WealthTrust Fairport LLC

Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ:MDLZ) Shares Sold by WealthTrust Fairport LLC

Acrospire Investment Management LLC increased its position in Mondelez International by 1,450.0% during the 2nd quarter. Acrospire Investment Management LLC now owns 3,100 shares of the company's stock valued at $134,000 after buying an additional 2,900 shares in the last quarter.
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The FBI Has Been Paying Geek Squad Repairmen To Turn Over Illegal Content on Your Computer

Geek Squad computer repairmen have reportedly been working with the FBI for at least a decade, according to documents acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The FBI paid Geek Squad employees to flag and disclose illegal content found on the computers they repaired, particularly child
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Opinion 7 ways auto lenders can protect their data

As auto lenders expand their digital offerings of financial products and services directly to consumers, they increase their potential exposure to cyberattacks. Digital sales/financing is growing exponentially and clearly is the preferred transactional method for millennials and Generation Z. So how can a
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ECB critical of Edmund Honohan-sponsored mortgage arrears Bill

The Bill put forward by the Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, and the Right 2Homes organisation to deal with mortgage arrears has been heavily criticised by the European Central Bank, which said it may undermine legal certainty for lenders and potentially affect the supply of lending and the
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6 Feminist fashion buys to support International Womens Day

This International Women's Day — where we're celebrating women around the world, and spotlighting issues that affect us, so we can work towards a solution — several fashion brands from Australia (and beyond) are doing some really incredible stuff to support the cause. Whether it's offering a discount
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'Wheel of Fortune' win a 'dream come true' for Puyallup woman

Puyallup resident Stephanie Haegele has watched “Wheel of Fortune” for as long as she can remember. “I've probably watched it from season one — for 35 years,” said Haegele, 44. “I'm kind of a word-game person. I like doing crosswords and things like that.” Growing up, she would play word games
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JV Acquires New Fort Myers Property for $71M

We used debt from Freddie Mac, also a programmatic relationship. So from a capitalization standpoint it was smooth sailing. The quality of the asset was outstanding, so [there were] no material due diligence concerns. If I had to point to something, I'd suggest it was the competitive bidding environment
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Will more hours of sun lead to more homes for sale? Brokers are optimistic

Real estate analytics firm CoreLogic told The News Tribune via email Tuesday that the Tacoma-Lakewood metro area saw a 12 percent increase in its 12-month home price index in single family homes, measuring from January 2017 to January 2018. The index is based on public record and home-sale
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Bank of Canada maintains key lending rate at 1.25%

Canada's central bank on Wednesday maintained its key lending rate at 1.25 percent, as growth slows and the prospect of protectionist US trade policies cast a shadow over the global economy. “Global growth remains solid and broad-based,” the Bank of Canada said in a statement. “However, trade
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Indian architect wins prestigious Pritzker Prize

This photo provided by The Pritzker Architecture Prize shows the Aranya low-cost housing project by Balkrishna Doshi in Indore, India, which accommodates over 80,000 people through a system of houses, courtyards and internal pathways. Doshi of India won the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the
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EQT Midstream Partners, LP (EQM) Reaches $60.45 52 Week Low; Investors Title Co (ITIC …

Investors Title Company, through its subsidiaries, provides title insurance for residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial properties. The company has market cap of $367.77 million. It underwrites land title insurance for owners and mortgagees as a primary insurer; and assumes the reinsurance
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BankThink Regulators need to step up their game to stop tech-based discrimination

For one thing, it can be used to circumvent fair lending laws, which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age and other characteristics. In fact, it's already happening. Online lenders and traditional lenders are using technology, statistics and data science to create underwriting
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Twitter Is Trying to Halt Cryptocurrency-Related Scams on Its Platform

Twitter Inc. is attempting to halt alleged cryptocurrency-related scams spreading via its platform, joining fellow social media companies in striving to cut down on harmful content. Twitter is aware of cryptocurrency-related “manipulation,” and is implementing measures to “prevent these types of accounts
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Carlos Katayama

Understanding your mortgage options can make all the difference when you're looking for a loan that you can comfortably afford. I'm Carlos, based in Yorba Linda, and I'm passionate about building relationships with my clients. As your Financial Center Lending Officer, I can offer educational resources,
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Global ultra-wealthy buyers keen on Australian property

Mr Booth had found the buyer through the agency's international database of prospective house hunters. “I have got so many people who want to spend between about $20m and $50m and there is nothing available,” Mr Booth told The Australian. Melbourne ranked 20th in the world on the Knight Frank
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Price rises slow to crawl in subdued housing market

House prices are rising at the slowest annual pace in five years, according to Britain's biggest mortgage lender. Halifax said that its mortgage data showed that prices had risen by 1.8 per cent in the year to February, the slowest pace since March 2013. In February last year prices were rising nearly three
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Digital mortgage firm Qualia gets new round of funding

Starwood Capital Group executive Barry Sternlicht, 8VC and Bienville Capital also are participating in the Series B funding of the platform, which hosts loan closing workflows for mortgage lenders, real estate and title agents, homebuyers and home sellers. The San Francisco-based company has been
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TRANSACTIONS: GCP assembles $41M mortgage, Eastern Union cuts $19.5M loan in Yonkers

A new mortgage in the amount of $6,300,000 on a five-building, 55-unit cooperative property located on Lexington Avenue in New York, NY. The loan features a rate of 3.625% and a 10-year term. Steve Geller and Avi Geller negotiated this transaction. • A new mortgage of $6,100,000 was placed on a
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Trump Can't Even Beat an Unnamed Democratic Candidate in 2020 Election Poll

According to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll, Trump is trailing by eight points—behind a generic Democrat. The poll showed Trump behind, receiving 36% support as compared to 44% for the yet-to-be-named Democratic candidate. Nevertheless, 19% of voters polled remain undecided who they will
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Political Risk Lingers over Guatemala's Banking Sector

Guatemala's private exchange and banking sector have both groaned into 2018 with a long road ahead of them. Plagued by persistent underperformance, the country's markets have suffered from political instability impacting its private exchanges. At the crux of this maelstrom is Guatemalan President
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This Venture Capitalist Says SoftBank Is Creating a Subset of 'Untouchable' Companies

This Venture Capitalist Says SoftBank Is Creating a Subset of 'Untouchable' Companies

This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. Patricia Nakache, a general partner at Trinity Ventures, calls her path to venture capital “serendipitous.” In 1999, she had recently left McKinsey & Company to join a startup at the peak of the dot-com
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Tech will transform the global real estate legal market: true or false?

Later this month The Lawyer will publish its analysis of the global real estate legal market, which will assess the impact of technology on the world's largest international real estate legal practices and their clients. The Lawyer's Global Real Estate 50 2018 report, which focuses specifically on property
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Real Estate Transactions: Feb. 26 – March 2, 2018

March 2, Peter M. Nicholson, Representative of the estate of William Waterway, a.k.a. William Edwards Marks and William E. Marks, sold an undivided one-twentieth (1/20) interest in a lot on Oxcart Rd. to Barbara Norfleet for $135,000. Chilmark. Feb. 28, David Howard Pierce, trustee of the David
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How Currency Investors Are Bracing for a Full-Blown Trade War

Institute of International Finance Chief Economist Robin Brooks discusses the dollar and President Trump's tariffs. In foreign-exchange markets, investors aren't waiting to find out if all the tariff threats being thrown around lead to a full-blown trade war. Some money managers have begun piling into
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Why real estate deals might delay

The most important thing is to make sure that your property is clean and presentable and you have all the necessary documents. File photo … Muhammed Kizito, a real estate manager, explains some of the factors that might cause a delay in the process of closing a real estate deal. A poor first impression
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Venezuela Sees Crypto Rollout Ending Reviled Dolartoday Rate

Venezuela continued the rollout of its oil-backed cryptocurrency Tuesday, announcing how the so-called Petro will be introduced into wider circulation, which it says will also mark “the burial” of various black market rate tracking platforms that have embarrassed the government. Speaking at a televised
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Former Fort Hood veteran receives mortgage-free home

KILLEEN — An Army veteran and former Fort Hood soldier received the keys to a mortgage-free home from Wells Fargo and the Military Warriors Support Foundation in Killeen on Thursday. Former Army Sgt. Michael Williams had dreams of making the military a career, but that dream quickly turned to a
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ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI) Given New $61.00 Price Target at Wells Fargo & Co

BidaskClub lowered ICF International from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 7th. Noble Financial reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of ICF International in a research report on Tuesday, November 7th. ValuEngine lowered ICF International from a “buy” rating to
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iintoo Returns Net 15.95 Percent on Exited Deals, Outperforming Online Real Estate Investment …

NEW YORK, March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Real estate investment management company iintoo investments Ltd. (“iintoo”) announced a 15.95 percent average annual return on investment, net fees, and $3 million in regular distributions to investors since its founding in 2015. The returns are based on
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SAP's Design Chief Explains How to Scale Design Across Organizations

In 2015, Fiori received the Red Dot Award, while its design ethos has helped it build customer and employee satisfaction; the firm is routinely named among Fortune's Best Workplaces. “Sometimes, we're still asked to make things that look pretty,” Yen said, “but at the end of the day, design culture has
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Cryptcurrency Has Hijacked the Banking System and Will Revolutionize Global Money

When it comes to conducting seamless transactions that are accessible and trusted, the common processes come up short. Cash, credit and bank wires do a complete disservice to the public in that consumers are left with indefinite waiting periods, holdouts or worse—a total loss of their funds.
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Ben Carson's Housing Department Removes Commitment to Discrimination-Free Communities …

HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes; utilize housing as a platform for improving quality
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UK's Atom Bank raises another $206M led by BBVA for millennial and SMB financial services

Atom Bank, the startup based out of Durham, England that operates a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34, has raised another big round of funding. The company today announced another £149 million ($206 million) in funding to double down on its existing business
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Real estate market is fierce, but fertile for first-time homebuyers, downsizers

Robbinsdale is among the metro communities with the greatest real estate gains between 2016 and 2017, according to a recent index compiled by the Star Tribune through data from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors. While Richfield is still at the top of the Twin Cities real estate market, as it
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Manufactured homes: The answer to America's affordable housing shortage?

Back in January, mortgage financing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said they're planning to purchase more housing loans for manufactured homes in the next three years. Also this year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it's reviewing its current regulations governing
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Don't trust family members with your credit card

Six out of 10 people said that they would allow an immediate family member borrow their credit card. Nine percent said they have let friends use their cards. “When it comes down to it, if you lend someone your card, you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting burned,” said Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at
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EU Signals Mounting Concern Over Trump Tariffs as Cohn Resigns

“We hope that eventually this initiative from the U.S. side will not be followed through,” European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said in a Bloomberg Television interview ahead of a meeting of the European Union's executive arm to discuss a response to the U.S. plans. “But it's also
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Healthcare Trust Of America Inc (NYSE:HTA) Shares Bought by Honeywell International Inc.

The fund owned 87,521 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock after buying an additional 19,085 shares during the period. Honeywell International Inc.'s holdings in Healthcare Trust Of America were worth $2,629,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Homebuyer forum to address trends in alternative home financing

Many would-be property-owners have been forced to get creative, looking at alternatives to traditional real estate financing and ownership, and a forum today at SFU Harbour Centre is meant to help you navigate some of the latest trends. “There are some really interesting trends out there right now.
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SMA Telling Trends to Investors through Its Technical Levels of Pennsylvania Real Estate …

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI) stock price distance from twenty day simple moving average surged at 2.43% while its distance from fifty day simple moving average declined -5.02% along with -4.05% below distance from two hundred simple moving averages. A moving average can
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Data Sheet—How Ripple Wants to Enhance, Not Kill, the Global Payments System

Data Sheet—How Ripple Wants to Enhance, Not Kill, the Global Payments System

This is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. If you're more like me and less like the authors of Fortune's outstanding blockchain and cryptocurrency site The Ledger, this newfangled stuff is more often than not
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Embrace Home Loans Adds New Director of Mortgage Product Innovation

MIDDLETOWN, R.I.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Embrace Home Loans, a prominent leader in the mortgage industry, announced today that industry veteran Parkes Dibble has joined the national lender as its new Director of Mortgage Product Innovation. In his role, Mr. Dibble will lead efforts to strengthen
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Current Mortgage Rates Move Lower on Wednesday

For the majority of 2018, we've seen the 10-year yield steadily rise, but it's been holding between a fairly tight range of 2.85%-2.90% for the past couple of weeks. The average rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (according to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey), has continued to rise
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Landbay doubles lending volumes to £100m in six months

Mortgage marketplace lender Landbay has hit a new nine-figure milestone in its lending to buy-to-let landlords. The London-based company confirmed today (March 7) that it has lent £100m in the buy-to-let space since launching in 2014. The figure is almost double the £59m milestone recorded in
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'We said it wasn't acceptable': how Bristol is standing up to developers

Mead's predicament is playing out across Bristol, as the fallout from the explosion in house prices pushes out residents. There is little social housing – from roughly a third of Bristol's housing in the 1980s, it is now just 20% – while buy-to-let investors have squeezed the market, and student housing
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Madison Realty Capital Provides $37.5 Million First Mortgage for Ridgewood, Queens …

NEW YORK, March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) closed a $37.5 million first mortgage loan collateralized by a mixed-use development site and two adjacent commercial buildings located in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. MRC's team successfully delivered this
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Each Mortgage Loan Can Create 70 Jobs- MBAN

“If we had underwriting standards for mortgages, we will have increasing number of non- interest financial institutions who can provide loans to Internally Displaced Person's (IDPs) in the North East to rebuild their homes rather than living in camps, this is the face of reconstruction and rehabilitation”,
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Atom Bank in £149m capital raising

Atom Bank has raised £149m from investors including BBVA, in a capital raising that sees the Spanish bank lift its stake in the UK's oldest mobile-focused challenger to almost 40 per cent. Atom was the first in what has become a wave of mobile-focused challenger banks in the UK, launching its first
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Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. Reports Annual Results and Monthly Dividend

TORONTO, March 7, 2018 /CNW/ – Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. (TSX: BRE), a leading provider of services to residential real estate brokers and their REALTORS®1 (the “Company”), today announced its 2017 annual financial results and the approval of a monthly dividend to holders of the
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Select Bank & Trust picks Sageworks to boost lending efficiency

The bank selected Sageworks Banking Platform to drive efficiencies in lending and portfolio management processes while improving data quality and easing regulatory reporting pressures. Select Bank & Trust, now with 18 branches across North and South Carolina and $1.2 billion in assets, was
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Trump's Tariffs Won't Hit 3% Growth Projections, Mnuchin Says

President Donald Trump's plans to tariff steel and aluminum, which may prompt a global trade war, will not hurt his projections for U.S. growth, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. “We're comfortable that we're going to manage through this so that it is not detrimental to our growth projections,”
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Seattle-Based WP & Associates Realty Affiliates With CENTURY 21 Real Estate Franchise System

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — WP & Associates Realty announced today that it has joined the CENTURY 21® System and will now do business as CENTURY 21 WP & Associates. The company will continue to provide full-service real estate services to buyers and sellers throughout
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'Asking Really Big and Bold Questions.' Experts Debate the Power of Design to Disrupt

That was the conclusion of the Disruption x Design panel concluded on Wednesday at Brainstorm Design, the Fortune, Time and Wallpaper* conference held in Singapore. “For me, start-ups equal disruption,” says Charles Hayes, a partner and executive managing director of innovation consultancy firm
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Miami's real estate market is so strong that homes are selling for near-asking price

The local real estate market is in good shape, according to a report by the Miami Association of Realtors. January saw an increase in the sale of condominiums, single family homes and luxury properties valued at $1 million or more. Sales of residential properties in Miami-Dade rose by 5.1 percent, from
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House Hunting in … Scotland

MARKET OVERVIEW. The Scottish housing market, in general, has been aided by a United Kingdom economy that is performing a little better than expected and by very low interest rates, said Ran Morgan, head of the Scottish residential department at the real estate agency Knight Frank. “In Edinburgh
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Business Opportunities; FGMC Cuts Wholesale; RBS Settles With NY

Schneiderman said RBS admitted to having sold investors residential mortgage-backed securities that did not meet underwriting guidelines, contrary to its representations, and … The big news after the market close was the resignation of National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn due to a tariff tiff.
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Is Being a Peer-to-Peer Lender a Good Way to Invest Your Money?

In this segment, they consider the risks versus rewards of being on the lender side of peer-to-peer lending. The returns are better than you'll get from bonds, though worse than the average return from the stock market. But where does it fall on the risk spectrum, and is it reasonable to consider those
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PNB fraud: Jewellery export body for uniform lending rules at all banks

Banks differ in lending norms to jewellery entities; the scam involves manipulation of the rules by prominent firms in the segment. One bank might seek diamonds as collateral; another might clear a loan based on customer companies' balance sheets. Diamond jewellery companies have been alleged to
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KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF) Aroon Signals Pointing to Positive Momentum

The Aroon Oscillator has reached a key pivot point for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF) as the upward trend for the shares continues to build. Whether or not this can continue can be determined by looking at several charts. The key levels you need to watch on the Aroon indicator are 80 and 20.
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Design Needs to Address Some of the World's Biggest Problems, Says This Author and Architect

An architect by training and the author of Design for Good, Cary delivered a presentation on Wednesday at the inaugural Fortune, Time and Wallpaper* Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, making the case that the same principles of design fundamental to the private sector should be
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This Florida Retirement Empire Just Minted Three Billionaires

This Florida Retirement Empire Just Minted Three Billionaires

The company didn't respond to requests for comment. The long-term future of the business may lie in the hordes of restaurants, retail and healthcare providers that anchor their communities. The Villages had built 5.7 million square feet of commercial property as of August 2016, with a further 3.3 million
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America Is Giving Away the $30 Billion Medical Marijuana Industry

Why? Because the feds are bogarting the weed, while Israel and Canada are grabbing market share. By. Josh Dean. More stories by Josh Dean. March 7, 2018, 2:00 AM PST. Lyle Craker is an unlikely advocate for any political cause, let alone one as touchy as marijuana law, and that's precisely why
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Bruce William Mcclelland Acquires 1500 Shares of ARRIS International plc (NASDAQ:ARRS) Stock

ARRIS International plc (NASDAQ:ARRS) CEO Bruce William Mcclelland purchased 1,500 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 22nd. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $24.72 per share, with a total value of $37,080.00. Following the purchase, the chief
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Folk2Folk reaches £200m lending milestone

The P2P lending platform has supported businesses in agriculture, the visitor economy and property sectors to grow, diversify or refinance. The platform's local economic model Folkonomics has also helped to build socially and financially successful communities as part of Folk2Folk's local lending
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Wells Fargo Is the Go-To Bank for Gunmakers and the NRA

Since the killing of 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, Wells Fargo has helped two of the biggest U.S. gun and ammunition companies access $431.1 million in loans and bonds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That puts it on the top of the list of
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When to Use Your Email Signature for More Than a Sign-Off

Two years ago, Alaia Williams used a run-of-the-mill email signature: title, company, phone number. But as an online business strategist, she wondered if she was overlooking an obvious opportunity. So she started adding to her signature, piece by piece. She placed social media icons to link to her
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Porn Star Stormy Daniels Sues Trump Over 'Hush Agreement'

Porn star Stormy Daniels sued President Donald Trump, saying a “hush agreement” to prevent her from talking about their purported affair isn't valid because Trump never signed it. Daniels wants a judge to void the agreement so she can avoid being dragged by Trump's personal lawyer into an
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US mortgage requests steady as borrowing costs hit four-year high: MBA

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage applications held steady last week even as interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate home loans edged up to their highest level in four years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: Homes are seen under construction in the southwest area
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Q&A: Bill Long is big on small-town banking opportunity

I've been here 30 years, and started Piedmont Bank and then it got sold and merged with Yadkin and then I ran the Yadkin Valley bank until 2010 when I retired. This building has always been attractive to me. It's a very nice looking building and of course it was available and we were fortunate to be able
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People and Property: NH Real Estate and Construction News Roundup

A High-Performance Building Conference will be presented by the Construction Specifications Institute held Thursday, March 15 at Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland, Maine. Speakers will include Chris Mathis, president of Mathis Consulting, who will discuss the importance of the building envelope and
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Three More Billionaires Emerge From Fastest-Growing Area in US

He gave each a third of the holding company in 2006, eight years before he died. The family has kept tight … It owns the title company, builds the homes and retail centers, controls the bank where you can get a mortgage, and even owns the local newspaper, a television channel and an AM radio station.
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Mortgage Loan Rates Tick Up, Applications Remain Flat

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications Wednesday morning, noting an increase of 0.3% in the group's seasonally adjusted composite index for the week ending March 2. Mortgage loan rates rose again last week on two of five loan types that the
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Women business owners get far less funding than their male counterparts — and it's getting worse

A new report released Wednesday reveals an alarming trend: The lending gap for women is widening dramatically, seriously impacting growth prospects for this key demographic group. The study surveyed 27,000 small businesses nationwide in February in a wide range of industries. Services (except
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RBS to pay $500m to New York over mortgage security mis-selling

Compared against its peers, RBS trails, with a exchange traded fund of large banks, the SPDR S&P Bank ETF 7.9% so far this year. RBS reported its first annual profit in a decade, warning investors that legacy issues related to its sale and packaging of residential mortgage backed securities lingered.
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Loan Zone: Using alternative data to expand member business lending

Loan Zone: Using alternative data to expand member business lending. Traditional checks may be too strict to serve … Within a traditional credit file, lenders consider the “five Cs of credit” to determine whether a small business is worth the risk for a loan. These include credit history, capacity to repay
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Fyre Festival Founder Forfeits Fortune

New York – The entrepreneur behind a luxury music festival in the Bahamas that collapsed in chaos admitted on Tuesday that he swindled investors by vastly overstating his financial health. Billy McFarland, 26, agreed before a federal court in New York to forfeit more than $26m and pleaded guilty to two
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Former NY housing inspector acquitted in fire that killed 4

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — A former upstate New York housing inspector has been acquitted of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with a 2015 fire that claimed four lives. The Times Union says Kenneth Tyree's eyes welled with tears when the verdict was announced
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Hunt Mortgage Lends $187M on Affordable and Student Housing Portfolio

The package includes $102 million in variable-rate taxable financing from Freddie Mac, $83 million in fixed-rate financing through Fannie Mae's tax-exempt bond execution—which uses a mortgage-backed security as collateral for a tax exempt bond issuance—and $2 million through a variable-rate
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Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin Are Commodities, Federal Judge Says. Here's Why That Matters

A federal judge has upheld the idea that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are commodities, and can therefore be regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC has been of this opinion for the last three years, and U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein agreed on Tuesday.
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Temasek and GIC in talks to buy chunk of Salt Bae steakhouse

Three large global investors are close to buying a minority stake in a group of high-end restaurants including the Nusr-Et Steakhouse, known for the social media phenomenon Salt Bae, the Turkish chef. The investors including Singapore's Temasek and GIC are in talks over the potential purchase of
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House prices 'depressed' in February as mortgage rate rises 'hit the market hard'

House prices 'depressed' in February as mortgage rate rises 'hit the market hard'

Annual house price growth slowed to a five-year low in February, according to an index. Property values saw a 1.8% annual uplift – the smallest increase since a 1.1% rise in March 2013 – Halifax said. Economists suggested the figures show that a modest rise in mortgage rates in recent months has hit
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Jennifer Lopez & Alex Rodriguez to Help Minority Kids Learn Real Estate in Bronx Hometown

*Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez have joined an effort to help turn kids of color into mini real estate moguls. The couple will serve as mentors for Project Destined, which held a meeting on Sunday (March 4) at A-Rod's former home Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Both attended
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Young homeowner takes advantage of flying housing market

YOUNG property owner Ashley Tuttle has first-hand experience with the extraordinary pace of Hobart's real estate market. She put her three-bedroom Margate home on the market and could hardly believe it sold in just four days. “It was a shock,” said 26-year-old Ashley. “I couldn't believe it happened so
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IBM Is Making Its Design Thinking Available to Clients, Says Its Design Chef

Now IBM is extending the full depth of its design philosophy to its clients, design general manager Phil Gilbert announced at the Fortune, Time, and Wallpaper* Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on Wednesday. IBM's new Enterprise Design Thinking services, available online, will allow clients
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Beijing puts foot on accelerator for bank lending

China's banking regulator has softened rules requiring lenders to set aside provisions against losses on bad loans, to encourage banks to provide more trustworthy assessments of their health. The move suggests that even as regulators pursue a “regulatory windstorm” to curb excess in the banking
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Keller Williams Realty, Armstrong Real Estate Jobs

1-Click Job Application allows you to apply to 5+ jobs at KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY, ARMSTRONG REAL ESTATE! Find career vacancies near you that are hiring now on ZipRecruiter.
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Who Are The Top Investors In Globe International Carriers Limited (NSE:GICL)?

In this analysis, my focus will be on developing a perspective on Globe International Carriers Limited's (NSEI:GICL) latest ownership structure, a less … Insider buying may be a sign of upbeat future expectations, however, selling doesn't necessarily mean the opposite as insiders may be motivated by
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Do We Need to Rethink the Meaning of Design Thinking?

Four design experts—Harry West of Frog, Ernesto Quinteros of Johnson & Johnson (jnj, +1.19%) , Gadi Amit of NewDealDesign, and Natasha Jen of Pentagram—weighed in for a spirited and interactive townhall debate about the definition of design thinking on Wednesday at the inaugural Fortune, Time
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28 Stocks Moving In Wednesday's Pre-Market Session

Baozun Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ: BZUN) shares fell 4.7 percent to $45.95 in pre-market trading after climbing 31.11 percent on Tuesday. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR) fell 4.7 percent to $67.89 in the pre-market trading session after rising 2.52 percent on Tuesday. Investors Title Company
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Lower north shore defies Sydney trend

THE upper end of the housing market is unfazed by Sydney's housing downturn as the lower north shore market bucks the trend with a strong start to 2018.
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Banking watchdog to chop provision coverage

China's banking regulator plans to cut the provision coverage ratio for commercial banks to 120%-150% from the previous 150%, The Paper reported. It is also called NPL Provision coverage ratio, which calculates the amount of funds that banks are ordered to set aside to cover their non-performing
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NFM Lending Celebrates 20th Anniversary

LINTHICUM, MD / ACCESSWIRE / March 7, 2018 / Residential mortgage lender NFM Lending is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. NFM Lending focuses on assisting consumers in obtaining residential loans that meet their needs, while ensuring they receive exemplary service throughout the process
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Payday lender ex-CEO seeking watchdog job

NEW YORK – The former CEO of a payday lending company that had been under investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked to be considered for the top job at the watchdog agency, The Associated Press has learned. Under Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director and acting
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Ontario's growth plan could be hurting the GTA housing market — here's how one expert wants to …

It's no secret that high demand for housing in the GTA is keeping supply of new construction units low, while prices keep moving up. And according to one expert, Ontario's growth plan is making matters worse. “Higher housing prices are a well-known and documented unintended consequence of supply
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Housing market: Mortgage applications stall, along with interest rates

The start of the spring housing market has yet to energize the mortgage market, the latest numbers from the Mortgage Bankers Association show. Total mortgage application volume was essentially flat last week, up just 0.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the MBA. Volume was 5% lower
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Trump's Hardball on Trade to Test China's 'Strategic Composure'

China's policy of “strategic composure” in dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump's America First ethos faces its sternest test yet. Having already absorbed levies on washing machines and solar panels and last week's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, China awoke Wednesday to news that
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Shield law protecting real estate records of domestic abuse victims advances in legislature

Delegates advanced legislation Tuesday that would allow domestic abuse and human trafficking victims to keep private real estate property records that are normally public information if they are enrolled in the address confidentiality program. The legislation would also permit a victim in the address
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State Farm cuts viewed as 'minor setback' for local housing market

BLOOMINGTON – The sky isn't falling for the local housing market, according to the president of the Bloomington-Normal Association of Realtors, even as State Farm plans to cut nearly 900 information technology jobs in Bloomington. The group's president, John Armstrong, considers State Farm's action
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Clarocity Executive, Ernie Durbin, awarded as 2018 Valuation Visionary

In the Spring edition of Appraisal Buzz Magazine, Scott Reuter from Freddie Mac reflected on Durbin's award, “Ernie embodies everything that is right about our profession. He has not only evolved as an appraiser, he embraces and endorses technology data and innovation.” “Ernie Durbin is renowned
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NSW housing affordability gradually improving as market slows: REIA/Adelaide Bank

Housing affordability is improving in NSW as price growth is easing in the state's residential property market, two separate measures show. The latest Adelaide Bank/Real Estate Institute of Australia Housing Affordability Report showed the proportion of family income needed to meet mortgage payments
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Is It Last Call for Low Mortgage Rates? Why Home Buyers Should Act Now

Is It Last Call for Low Mortgage Rates? Why Home Buyers Should Act Now

All good things come to an end—even low mortgage interest rates. They've been steadily rising and are poised to climb even higher this year. When they do, the cost of buying a home will rise as well. This could make the challenges of today's buyer's market even worse for some prospective
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Why Coca-Cola Is Finally Getting Into the Booze Business

The Coca-Cola Company sells a lot of different beverage types, from water and milk to iced tea and many, many permutations of flavored sugar-water. However, alcohol has never been on that list—until now. The company is going to start selling an alcopop, or Chu-Hi, exclusively in the Japanese market
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Designers Are Embracing Personalization, But It Should Be Used With Care

Tucker Fort, partner, Smart Design, speaks at the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on Mar. 7, 2018. Stefen Chow/Fortune. By Robert Horn. 10:11 PM EST. It's all about you – sort of. In the coming years, the trend towards personalization will create huge opportunities in many industries,
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Mortgage rates move upward for Wednesday

Several closely watched mortgage rates trended upward today. The average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage moved up, but the average rate on a 15-year fixed were unchanged. The average rate on 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, the most popular type of variable rate mortgage, floated
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Wall Street Has Something to Say About White House Exit of 'Grown Up' Gary Cohn

The resignation of Gary Cohn as top White House economic adviser roiled markets Wednesday, sending the dollar down against the yen and U.S. stock futures lower. While global equities recovered from a trade-induced blow last week, graver concerns are emerging. The White House said late
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Banking legislation has Donnelly provisions

Donnelly's other provision began as the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, which would exclude manufactured-housing retailers from federal requirements affecting mortgage and loan originators and high-cost mortgages. He said the provision would allow consumers to obtain financing
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Brexit Bulletin: Bidding for the Bankers

(Passporting, or the free access across borders that banks get from the EU's single market, is off the table – even the Brits are no longer asking for it.) French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire was clear on Tuesday that all the U.K. can hope for is “equivalence,” a system the U.K. and its banking industry
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Tesla Loses Top Spot in Residential Solar to Sunrun

Tesla's retrenchment accounted for 97 percent of the residential segment's contraction since SolarCity's installations reached a peak in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Without that marketing muscle, smaller installers also saw declines in that period, and total
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NME Magazine is over as Time Inc pulls production of weekly title

The news was announced this morning by NME owner Time Inc, which confirmed in a statement: “NME's free weekly print magazine will cease publication. This week's issue of the magazine out on Friday will be the final free print edition.” Paul Cheal, Time Inc. UK group managing director, Music, says:
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Landbay ready to seize lending opportunities as cheap bank funding ends

LANDBAY founder John Goodall has warned banks will struggle to lend without the cheap money from the Bank of England's Term Funding Scheme (TFS). The scheme, which launched in September 2016 and gave banks access to cheap money on the wholesale markets on the basis that they would
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Mortgage applications stall, along with interest rates

The start of the spring housing market has yet to energize the mortgage market, the latest numbers from the Mortgage Bankers Association show. Total mortgage application volume was essentially flat last week, up just 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the MBA. Volume was 5
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Mann Island makes own lending push

Mann Island Finance has said it plans to increasingly develop its own lending capabilities next to its operations as a broker. The company, founded in 1991 and a part of Investec's asset finance group of businesses since 2014, said it was looking to provide “the widest breadth of products and risk
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Refinance mortgage rate moves higher for Wednesday

At the current average rate, you'll pay $497.81 per month in principal and interest for every $100,000 you borrow. That's $2.35 higher compared with last week. You can use Bankrate's mortgage calculator to estimate your monthly payments and see what the effects of making extra payments would be.
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Johannesburg's best suburbs for first-time buyers revealed

Johannesburg's best suburbs for first-time buyers revealed: Affordability is a key driver for Gauteng's housing market, with buyers currently in the pound seats. From Midrand to Fourways, here's where to find value…
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Ohio Co. real estate transfers for Mar. 6, 2018

Steven R. and Christina L. Beebout to Thomas Lee Greenwell and Ashley Marie Greenwell – Property on Griffin St. in Ohio County. Alex T. and Teresa Lynn Boswell to Alex T. Boswell, Teresa Lynn Boswell, Bobby Lee Moxley, Jr. and Debra Gale Moxley – Boundary Line Agreement. Bobby Lee Moxley
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Endo International plc – (NASDAQ:ENDP) Short Interest Up 6.3% in January

BMO Capital Markets reduced their price target on shares of Endo International from $10.00 to $9.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday. Gabelli downgraded shares of Endo International from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on
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Halifax Data Show Housing Market Transactions Steady while Prices Slow in February

“The lack of new instructions coming to market continues to impede activity and new instructions have now fallen for 23 consecutive months – the worst sequence since 2007- 2009.” UK house price growth continued to wane in the three months to the end of February, according to the latest Halifax Bank
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Mortgage Technology Pivots From Compliance to the Customer

The mortgage industry's attention continues to shift toward technology that engages the customer, after years of near-exclusive focus on compliance solutions.
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Gateway Investment Advisers LLC Reduces Holdings in Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM)

Novare Capital Management LLC grew its position in shares of Philip Morris International by 0.3% during the 2nd quarter. Novare Capital Management LLC now owns 1,842 shares of the company's stock valued at $216,000 after buying an additional 5 shares during the last quarter. Cullen Frost
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PASLA: Taiwan to further update SBL model

Taiwan is set to make further updates to its securities borrowing and lending (SBL) model this year, according to a panellist at the 15th Annual Pan Asia Securities Lending Association Conference. The panellist discussed the current SBL model in Taiwan, revealing that in 2018 it plans to make
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Mystery of China Energy Giant That Came From Nowhere Deepens

Mystery of China Energy Giant That Came From Nowhere Deepens

CEFC China Energy Co.'s rapid ascent was shrouded in mystery and the turmoil that's engulfed the company over the past week is no different. Just six months ago, CEFC called itself China's largest private oil and gas company, with 50,000 employees and revenue of more than $40 billion. That's when
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Bitcoin's Tokyo Whale Sold $400 Million and He's Not Done Yet

He's not your typical Bitcoin whale, but Nobuaki Kobayashi has become a force to be reckoned with in the cryptocurrency world. The Tokyo attorney and bankruptcy trustee for the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange disclosed on Wednesday that he sold about $400 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash
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Gerard du Toit: Banking's Amazon Moment

Bain Partner Gerard du Toit discusses why Amazon has a competitive edge in trust, distribution and economics and outlines three things traditional banks can do to compete.
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UK house prices rise at slowest pace in nearly five years – Halifax

In monthly terms, prices rose by 0.4 percent in February from January, the first increase in three months, Halifax said. Britain's housing market has been hit by the squeeze on household incomes caused by higher inflation after the Brexit vote in 2016 pushed down the value of the pound. Weak wage
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Trump Says US Has 'No Choice' But to Go Ahead With Tariffs

President Donald Trump reiterated his commitment to levying tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying that the U.S. has poor trading conditions with other nations, including those in the European Union. “When we're behind every single country, trade wars aren't so bad,” Trump said in a press conference at
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36M Americans have been burned by lending out their credit cards

“They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that could certainly be the case with lending a credit card. If you're going to do it, proceed with caution,” Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst for CreditCards.com, tells FOX Business, adding that your best move is to make sure that you set the
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Senate advances bill to weaken banking safeguards

WASHINGTON — The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday to roll back some of the safeguards Congress put in place to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis. Enough Democrats supported a procedural vote on the bipartisan bill to show it has a good chance of passage in the coming days. The move
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New Real Estate Agency Opens In Downtown Pittsfield

He'd buy them, fix them up, and re-sell them. He also ran a restaurant and a tanning salon. And then he started working part time as a real estate agent. But, as time went on, he found he was the most passionate about real estate and that had been taking up more and more of his time. “This is all we do.
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Women-owned boutique real estate brokerage kicks off to help small biz, nonprofits

A pair of entrepreneurial women with already-busy real estate and business development careers are launching a new boutique real estate brokerage firm, aimed at narrow niches of small clients and walkable neighborhoods. Brokers Erin Carmina and Maggie Hamilton Winship have already been
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BOC approves probate position; moves $500000 for real estate

BOC approves probate position; moves $500,000 for real estate … grant funds. The board unanimously approved the staff position, and also approved the transfer of $500,000 in SPLOST funds to the Carroll County Development Authority to purchase real estate for Economic Development purposes.
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Applying technical analysis concepts on Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI)

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI) made the way into the market positive movers list with rising 0.77%. PEI reported a change of 1.64% over the last week and performed 0.10% over the last month while its year to date (YTD) performance revealed an activity trend of -11.61%.
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Feud over fortune embroils Michigan religious group

Pontiac — An excommunicated member of a century-old west Michigan religious group is alleging a few “interlopers” have conspired to loot more than $50 million in assets from the organization. Charles W. Ferrel, 59, who lives in Hawaii, claims in his 27-page Oakland Circuit Court lawsuit that a few
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Designers Need to Stop Praising Good Design and Start Talking About the Bad Design

Alice Rawsthorn isn't afraid to name names. If your designs are bad, useless or untrustworthy they could have serious consequences. Think of traditional prescription pill bottles that look so similar that they can lead to people taking the wrong medicines by mistake. It's therefore essential that,
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At INR569.15, Is It Time To Buy Coromandel International Limited (NSE:COROMANDEL)?

Coromandel International Limited (NSEI:COROMANDEL), a chemicals company based in India, saw a double-digit share price rise of over 10% in the past couple of months on the NSEI. With many analysts covering the mid-cap stock, we may expect any price-sensitive announcements have already
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The story behind India's biggest banking IPO began with rural women

Unlike other players in the microfinance industry, Bandhan Bank joined the league of big banks only in August 2015. In less than three years, it has emerged as a leader and is set for India's biggest banking initial public offering (IPO), at a time when its older and bigger peers are in duress. On March 06
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Swire Properties plans residential towers on old Tobacco Road site

Mr. Jalil also sees an increase in potential buyers as a result of more mortgage companies lowering down payments. With the median sale price at $345,000, according to the latest Fannie Mae 1004 MC report, a typical down payment now ranges from 20% to 25%, meaning buyers fork over $69,000 to
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Discrimination bill among efforts on Washington homelessness

Some of the obstacles faced by the women in finding permanent housing may soon become illegal in Washington state, where legislators are …. For Woods, the Edmonds resident who overcame homelessness, final approval of the bill banning source-of-income discrimination in housing would be an
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Trump's North Korea Bluster Scores a Win, But at High Risk

North Korea's offer to suspend nuclear and missile tests in exchange for talks with the U.S. reflects an emerging truth about President Donald Trump's unconventional foreign policy style: It may heighten the risk of conflict, but also the potential for breakthroughs. As Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday: “the
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UK house price growth chills to five-year low — Halifax

UK house prices are rising at the slowest rate since 2013, according to data released on Wednesday that underscore the bite from falling consumer purchasing power and uncertainty over Brexit. Prices rose 1.8 per cent in the three months to February compared with the same period a year earlier,
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Lending Compliance Attorney at Trustco Bank

SUMMARY: The loan compliance attorney position oversees the compliance and mortgage servicing compliance functions for the retail lending…
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Trump Says US Working Hard to Prevent 2018 Election Meddling

Trump Says US Working Hard to Prevent 2018 Election Meddling

President Donald Trump said Russia had “no impact on our votes” in the last presidential election and vowed to prevent any interference in the upcoming congressional elections. “We've actually been working very hard on the '18 election,” Trump said Tuesday during a press conference at the White
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Small Business is a Big Opportunity in Banking

Community banks, those with assets of less than $1 billion, have historically been a step ahead when it comes to fostering relationship-based lending. They are relationship bankers, characterized by local ownership, control and decision-making. They can make lending decisions based on personally
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Auto lending market signs healthy

Brian Landau, senior vice-president and automotive business leader at TransUnion, said: “Auto lending is stabilizing after years of rapid growth. Originations continue to fall at a faster rate than previous years, balance growth is slowing and delinquencies are steady. “These metrics reflect the continuing
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Here's how liberals will attack the bipartisan Senate banking bill

The bill is intended to help regional banks, such as Birmingham, Ala.-based Regions Bank and Cincinnati-headquartered Fifth Third Bank, by making Federal Reserve oversight less burdensome for banks with less than $250 billion in assets, up from $50 billion now. Banks under that threshold would
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King Luther Capital Management Corp Sells 86615 Shares of Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ)

Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Mondelez International by 348.9% in the third quarter. Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. now owns 4,044,516 shares of the company's stock valued at $164,450,000 after purchasing an additional 3,143,550 shares in the last
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ERA Real Estate Announces Rookie of the Year

ERA Real Estate has announced its 2018 Rookie of the Year: Savannah Haney of American Real Estate ERA Powered in Beaumont, Texas. Haney was awarded the distinction at the recent 2018 ERA International Business Conference. “It's truly an honor to be recognized by ERA Real Estate,” says
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How Can You Prepare Design Students for an Uncertain World?

Giving a presentation entitled “Navigating Ambiguity” on Wednesday at the Fortune, Time and Wallpaper* Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, the executive director of Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school, observed that people seem to feel a
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Students create "Vinton Strong" shirts raise money for first responders

It spread to Clingman Pharmacy, Fischer Law Firm, and the Benton County Title Company. Firefighters from across Benton County spent days putting out the fire. Today the Fischer law firm is still standing but the Michael & Dowd Furniture Store and Clingman Pharmacy are gone and all that's left over is
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Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (OCSL) Given Average Recommendation of “Hold” by Brokerages

Oaktree Specialty Lending logo Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL) has received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the twelve brokerages that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation,
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RWC Asset Management LLP Acquires 50000 Shares of Restaurant Brands International Inc …

The institutional investor owned 200,000 shares of the restaurant operator's stock after buying an additional 50,000 shares during the quarter. RWC Asset Management LLP owned 0.08% of Restaurant Brands International worth $12,296,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange
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Real estate tax, solid waste fee increases on table

Halifax County Supervisors, who are caught between a rock and a hard place with no additional revenue sources in sight to build into the 2018-19 budget, made a reluctant decision after a budget meeting on Monday to advertise a one-cent increase in the real estate tax, from 48 cents to 49 cents per
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Commercial Banking Relationship Specialist

SunTrust has a career opportunity for a Commercial Banking Relationship Specialist in Nashville, TN.
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Too Much Data Hampers Good Design, Says Muji's Kenya Hara

Information is a matter of making things clear, but through a process that he calls “ex-formation,” legendary Japanese designer Kenya Hara wants to obscure them again. Allow him to explain. In a meditative Wednesday presentation called “Ex-Formation: Make Things Unknown” at the Fortune, Time and
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Amazon's tendrils reach for the banking sector: report

Amazon's seemingly insatiable appetite for growth and cost-cutting has raised concerns among consumer advocates and among companies and workers in the fields that it dominates; but should the Jeff Bezos-led giant decide to work to disrupt the banking industry, consumers might prefer them to Wall
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What's ahead for shopping in Wichita? Expect more focus on the entertainment aspect

Retailers that focus on doing one thing well and retail centers that offer something besides shopping will likely play a bigger role in Wichita. That's the view of real estate agents and others who pay attention to retail trends. “Retail has changed so much with Amazon,” Brad Saville, president of Landmark
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Rollback of banking regulations concerns Sen. Sherrod Brown

Brown, an Ohio Democrat who serves as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, fought to become the lead Democrat on that panel in part because of his fears that the GOP-led Senate would roll back Dodd-Frank, passed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown. He warns that
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BC housing non-profits granted reprieve from last-minute property-tax increases

BC Housing and BC Assessment, working with Mr. Sullivan, negotiated an adjustment in only six weeks that will see the land value for non-profit housing discounted to factor in the reality that the owners can't sell the land in the private market or even raise rents that much, because of legal agreements
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FirstRand to enter transactional banking in the UK

FirstRand has vowed not to take its eye off its South African business, as it plans its entry into transactional banking in the UK through Aldermore. A nine-year-old challenger bank with no branch network, Aldermore, for which FirstRand paid £1.1bn in 2017, gives the banking group a lending and deposit
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Toronto housing remain depressed as prices begin to stabilise

by Natalie Wong and Erik Hertzberg. Toronto home sales are still depressed as the market continues to adjust to tougher mortgage qualifications and rising interest rates, though prices show signs of stabilising. Sales in Canada's once-hot housing market fell 35 percent from a year earlier to 5,175 units,
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RBS settles NY mortgage securities claims for US$500 million

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc has reached a US$500 million settlement with New York state to resolve charges it misled investors by selling risky mortgage securities that contributed to the 2008 global financial crisis. The settlement announced on Tuesday by New York Attorney General Eric
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What I Learned About Bitcoin Could Make You A Fortune…

What I Learned About Bitcoin Could Make You A Fortune…

What I Learned About Bitcoin Could Make You A Fortune… March 06, 2018, 01:00:00 AM EDT By Andy Obermueller, StreetAuthority. loading. Shutterstock photo. When I was first asked to write a book about bitcoin, the price was hovering at about $3,000. As part of my research, I bought a little. By the
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Provincial and federal budgets promise affordable housing for Vancouver, at what cost?

… units below a certain price, they don't have to pay the city's development cost levy — essentially, if the developers are willing to create more affordable rental units, they get a financial break. In January, the city updated its guidelines for developers. For-profit affordable rental housing is now defined as
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Coinbase Accused of Cheating Consumers in More Ways Than One

Coinbase Inc. was slapped with a pair of lawsuits by disgruntled consumers, one alleging insider trading by employees at the giant digital currency exchange and the other accusing the company of failing to deliver cryptocurrencies to people who didn't have accounts. The class-action suits come as
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Dating App Bumble Bans Users from Posting Photos With Guns

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, several private companies have ended sales of semi-automatic rifles, raised the gun-buying age to 21 and, most recently, agreed to eliminate profile pictures that feature guns. The latest measure is being rolled out by dating app Bumble, which
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The Federal Reserve's Regulatory Agenda For Foreign Banking Organizations: What Lies Ahead …

Thank you very much to the Institute of International Bankers for inviting me to speak here today. Among my first areas of focus when I was a very young lawyer starting out in my career well over 30 years ago was providing advice to foreign banks and financial firms operating in the United States, and I
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Monster Hunter World Becomes Capcom's Best Selling Game of All Time

As a result, Monster Hunter: World has overcome both linguistic and cultural barriers to delight approximately 7 million players worldwide, and has shipped 7.5 million units, making it the best-selling title in company history. “Capcom remains firmly committed to satisfying the expectations of all users by
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Bentley's Ultra-Luxurious Bentayga SUV Is Getting a Makeover as a Plug-In Hybrid

Ultra-luxury automaker Bentley is giving it's flagship Bentayga SUV, a next generation V6 engine and an electric battery, a combination that marks the company's first step toward making all-electric vehicles. The Bentley Bentayga Hybrid is described by the automaker as the world's first luxury hybrid
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Some Democrats are ready to loosen tough bank regulations put in place after the financial crisis

Some Democrats are ready to loosen tough bank regulations put in place after the financial crisis. Jim Puzzanghera … Before the 2008 financial crisis, BAC Community Bank in Stockton made about 100 mortgage loans a year. Now, after new … He and other small bankers hope that's about to change.
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Exchange Platform LendingBlock Boosts the Development of the Crypto Sphere

Lendingblock is an open exchange platform for both borrowers and lenders of crypto currencies. The platform enables owners of digital assets to earn passive, low risk interest income, while borrowers get an opportunity get assets needed to support trading, hedging and working capital needs.
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Fund houses pile into direct lending as banks retreat

While the deal — £275m for refinancing with the option of a further £100m — was Permira's largest direct lending investment, it was just the latest in a series that has seen the private equity group provide loans to a French software group, a German car parts maker and a UK holiday park operator.
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Strs Ohio Raises Stake in Investors Title (ITIC)

Investors Title logo Strs Ohio boosted its stake in Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) by 16.0% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 2,900 shares of the insurance provider's stock after
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Relief For Bank Regulatory Madness Might Be On The Way

Bank regulations spawned by the crisis (read: the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act) are the main culprit. Indeed, bank regulations have been ill conceived, pro-cyclical and fraught with danger. In consequence, bank regulations have pushed the U.S. down, not pulled it up.
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Moran: Great Wolf Lodge banking on 'brand recognition' — and a bigger waterpark — to win over …

A design image shows a new outdoor water-play area with a bar is among the new amenities added to the former Key Lime Cove in Gurnee as Great Wolf Lodge prepares to re-open the rebranded facility on July 1. (Great Wolf Resorts). Dan MoranContact ReporterNews-Sun. Privacy Policy. When Great
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Peter Boutell, Lending a Hand: Canceling your monthly mortgage insurance

Buying a home does not require 20 percent for a down payment. However, the potential risk of decreasing home values and loss of jobs are two main reasons why lenders feel safer when loaning no more than 80 percent of the value of a home. The good news is that lenders will allow a homebuyer to
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Temasek, GIC in talks to buy stake in Dream International

A trio of investors, including Singapore's Temasek and GIC, are close to buying a minority stake in a group of high-end restaurants that includes Nusr-Et steakhouse, famous for the social media phenomenon of Salt Bae. The purchase, which is still under discussion but could come as early as Friday,
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Bugatti Gave Its Classic Chiron Hypercar A Sporty Makeover

Bugatti unveiled the Bugatti Chiron Sport at the International Geneva Motor Show on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. JW Photography. By Kirsten Korosec. 7:22 PM EST. Bugatti wasn't content to leave the Chiron alone. The French hypercar company tinkered with the original 1,500-horsepower sports car to
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Expect greater level of scrutiny on lending to gems & jewellery sector: Titan

Subramaniam: We expect greater level of scrutiny on all lending to the jewellery sector. I won't be surprise if that happens. Need for more collateral is something which may also be happening at this point and on top of that you also have the new regulation which is coming up which is the banning of
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'Netflix and Chill' and the Poo Emoji Are Now in the Dictionary

If you've ever been confused about the meaning of an emoji someone sends you, now you can look its up definition in the dictionary. Dictionary.com added a number of emoji and slang to its site Tuesday, making it the first dictionary to include emoji descriptions. More than just your standard definition,
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Homebuilder hires Stearns Lending ex-CEO for financial services efforts

Regional homebuilder William Lyon Homes has named Brian Hale to the newly created position of president for financial services. Hale brings to the role more than 35 years of experience in the mortgage banking industry. He most recently served as CEO of direct mortgage lender Stearns Lending.
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Riccadonna lending a helping hand to former teacher-coach Lipps

Riccadonna lending a helping hand to former teacher-coach Lipps. By Mike Shaffer sports@starbeacon.com; 7 min ago. As a student at Brookfield High School in 1999, comedian Mark Riccadonna vividly recalls the day he worked up the nerve to tell his teacher-coach he was pondering this wild idea of
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