HousingWire Honors Matic Founder Benjamin Madick with Vanguard Award for Outstanding …

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., Dec. 1, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Matic, a digital insurance agency whose technology enables borrowers to purchase homeowner's insurance during the mortgage transaction, announced today that company co-founder and COO Ben Madick is a 2017 HousingWire
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Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone—societal, political, and medical alike—in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system-compromising disease it causes, AIDS. The overall story has been one of promise over the
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Martin Shkreli may have spun his last track on a one-of-a-kind album by the Wu-Tang Clan. Prosecutors said Friday Shkreli should be forced to forfeit $7.4 million, which could include $5 million in bail money and the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” Along with the disk set, which he bought two
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It just might be Ted Cruz's biggest victory as a senator: Helping stop in its tracks a plan late Thursday night to add $350 billion in tax increases to the Senate's tax bill to placate fellow Republican Senator Bob Corker's worries about the deficit. Cruz and Corker have had showdowns in the past over Cruz's
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More than 1,200 mortgage professionals from across the country descended upon Niagara Falls for Mortgage Professionals Canada's annual National Mortgage Conference. While OSFI's new B-20 mortgage rules dominated discussions, the mood was predominantly positive and optimistic about the
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This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. Sign up here. I met Thursday in San Francisco with Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba. Zhang claimed little role in the company's $7 billion bond offering this week—“I just told them to push the button,” he says—but
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Over the last year, founder and CEO Casey Crawford has continued to drive Movement Mortgage to industry-leading growth. The company is on track to originate more than $13 billion in residential mortgages in 2017, up 10% from 2016. Movement has achieved loan volume growth of 632% over the
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AGNC Investment logo AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) saw a significant decline in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 14,002,940 shares, a decline of 12.7% from the October 13th total of 16,046,688 shares. Approximately 3.6% of the
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Bitcoin prices soared as high as $10,700 Friday after the main U.S. currency trading watchdog handed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange a tentative go-ahead to offer bitcoin futures. Following the news, the CME said it would begin offering bitcoin futures on Dec.
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A new townhouse complex is under construction in Toronto in this file photo. The Federal Court of Appeal is set to decide whether Canada's largest real estate board must open up access to home sales data to its realtor members, which it could then share with the public online. (Nathan Denette / THE
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For the entire month of December, Applebee's is offering $1 Long Island Iced Teas, which they're calling Dollar LIT. The dollar drinks — made from a mix of vodka, rum, gin, tequila, triple sec and sweet & sour mix with a splash of cola — are available all day, every day in December at participating
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Paying off one's mortgage is a satisfying and rewarding experience. Wouldn't it be great to have your mortgage paid off by the time you retire? Wouldn't it be terrific to have no mortgage at all? Accelerating the payoff of your mortgage is as easy as adding a few dollars to each monthly payment. The key is
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Mediclinic International plc's' (LSE:MDC) is one of United Kingdom's large-cap stocks operating in the GB Healthcare Providers and Services industry. MDC saw some insider buying over the past three months, with insiders investing in more than 21 million shares during this period. A well-known
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Tiffany Curry, a real estate entrepreneur, has been named Woman of the Year at the 2017 Global Power Tour Houston, a multi-city, multi-country, hands-on and engaging summit for women entrepreneurs focusing on building their business brand, strategy and finances. Curry ranks in the top 2 percent of
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Plus, with all the things the Elecohomes CHS-2001 Blender can do, you can eliminate some of the other small appliances that might be vying for kitchen counter real estate in your home. At $170, it's competitively priced, especially when you consider the cost of comparable juicing and blending
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Are you planning on going to listing appointments or showing any homes this winter? Of course you are! And you're going to need to look good and stay warm while doing it. Whether you're a man or woman, consider these five winter wardrobe pieces and the positive impression they make on clients
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec 01, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Cloudvirga(TM), the developer of intelligent mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms, today announced that its founder and COO Kyle Kamrooz is a winner of HousingWire's third annual Vanguard Awards. Kamrooz was recognized for company
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Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli reports on a possible White House plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Source: Bloomberg). A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman also declined to comment. Working in Pompeo's favor is the close relationship he's cultivated with Trump, delivering the
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Italian investment bank Mediobanca has launched a private bank as it seeks to ramp up its business in the fast-growing Italian asset management market. The launch of Mediobanca Private Banking, which will be focused on high net worth individuals, comes a week after the Milan-based investment
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Oaktree Specialty Lending Corpo (OCSL) is an interesting player in the Financial space, with a focus on Credit Services. The stock has been active on the tape, currently trading at $4.82, down from yesterday's close by -4.17%. Given the stock's recent action, it seemed like a good time to take a closer
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