21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BXMT) (the “Company”) today announced the closing of BXMT 2017-FL1, a $1 billion Collateralized Loan Obligation (“CLO”), which is the largest commercial real estate CLO issued post financial crisis. The CLO transaction finances pari
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Earlier this week, the Bank of England (BoE) softened its position on the treatment of European banks with a presence in the U.K. post-Brexit by proposing that these banks can continue operating in the country without any changes. This decision by the British central bank serves several purposes
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The property at 80 Elm St., that was owned by Webster Bank, was bought late last month by Spinnaker Real Estate Investments headed by Clayton Fowler, who is looking to build either a small hotel there or apartments. In addition to the apartments at Landino's College Square, which opened in 2015,
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Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, though he will remain on the board, the company announced Thursday. Leaving the post after 17 years, Schmidt will remain with the company as a technical advisor in science and technology issues. Schmidt
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TPG Specialty Lending (NYSE: TSLX) and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (NYSE:TPVG) are both small-cap financials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst
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Lending Tree, an online lead-generation exchange for consumer loans, is hoping to prove that more informed creative can be one of the main drivers of real-time advertising performance. The company spent two years evaluating dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technologies and is now scaling out
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Obamacare enrollment through federal websites reached 8.8 million this year, the Trump administration said on Thursday, just shy of the number who signed up in 2016 when the enrollment period was twice as long. This year's strong enrollment came despite a GOP-led effort to repeal or gut the
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Upper Merion Area School District, 163 A.3d 962 (2017), the Upper Merion Area School District, entered into a contract with Keystone Realty, where Keystone was to identify under-assessed commercial properties within the district, and then decide which real estate tax assessments the district would
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Ahead of the conference, Andreas Löcher, head of hotel investments at Union Investment Real Estate, answered our questions on the state of the … This trend is currently being fueled by the fact that office and retail properties are commanding extremely low yields, combined with relatively short supply.
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TheStreet upgraded shares of Digi International from a c+ rating to a b rating in a report on Friday, October 27th. Canaccord Genuity reiterated a buy rating on shares of Digi International in a report on Friday, October 27th. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of Digi International from a hold rating to a
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Shares of Itron Inc (ITRI) are moving on volatility today -0.51% or $-0.35 from the open. The NASDAQ listed company saw a recent bid of $68.70 and 107349 shares have traded hands in the session. Investors may be trying to gauge the current business cycle phase and how that could potentially impact
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The FHFA announced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to maintain, in a safe manner, credit availability and foreclosure prevention activities for new … The FHFA instructed Fannie and Freddie to, if appropriate, prepare to implement a new credit scoring model, a process years in the making.
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Glaser tells Fortune, he lives by this motto: âthere is no innovation without dissentâ. Every one of Marsh & McLennan's 60,000 employees has heard Glaser talk about this many times. âI'm happy with conflict. I want cognitive conflictâ, he explains, adding that he does not want an environment where people
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Calamos Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in MGM Resorts International by 0.5% during the second quarter. Calamos Wealth Management LLC now owns 52,540 shares of the company's stock worth $1,644,000 after buying an additional 257 shares during the last quarter. Nordea Investment
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SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today released the October 2017 First American Real House Price Index (RHPI). The RHPI measures
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At March's International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), Martin J. Brühl, CIO and member of the management board at Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate, will participate in a panel entitled “Investors' Intentions in 2018 and Beyond” that examines where investors are planning to spend their
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The Los Angeles-based money manager, headed by Jeffrey Gundlach, is starting an investment adviser called Mortgage Opportunities Capital, according to regulatory filings. It will be an integral part of DoubleLine's plan to raise capital from institutional investors to originate or buy commercial and
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A report released on Thursday from mortgage industry consultant STRATMOR Group debunks the myth that loan officers (LO) are too old to meet the needs of the younger borrowersâmillennials in particularâwho looking to buy a home. In the report, STRATMOR Senior Partner Jim Cameron draws
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The government's efforts at recapitalising banks and its introduction of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) last year is expected to aid a faster clean-up of bank balance sheets, the RBI said in a report. The combination of linking bank performance to the quantum of funds injected through
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