Impac hires loanDepot's former chief administrative officer to lead CashCall Mortgage

Impac Mortgage, the parent company of CashCall, announced Thursday that it hired Rian Furey to serve as the company's president of direct lending, which is conducted via CashCall. As president of direct lending, Furey will oversee CashCall's operations. Furey comes in Impac from loanDepot, where
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IBM Q computation center at the Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Photographer: Connie Zhou/IBM. International Business Machines Corp. has signed up several prominent banks as well as industrial and technology companies to start experimenting with its quantum
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One of China's most-anticipated initial public offerings next year may be music to the ears of Tencent Holdings Ltd. investors because of its potential to drown out any noise Spotify and Apple Music want to make in the biggest market. Tencent Music, a streaming and downloading service, is expected to
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“The only two players out there to win zero-subsidy bids are utilities Orsted and EnBW and they are yet to make a financial decision on the projects,” said Keegan Kruger, wind analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The research group is projecting that the wind farm will cost $2.7 billion to install.
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Facebook is projected to boost sales by 46 percent and double net income, but make no mistake: It had a terrible year. Despite its financial performance, the social media giant is facing a reckoning in 2018 as regulators close in on several fronts. The main issue cuts to the core of the company itself:
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Bitcoin enthusiasts struck it rich this year as the cryptocurrency surged. Now they're preparing for battle in Washington to protect their industry's ascent. Advocacy groups are gearing up in Washington for a lobbying push in 2018, looking to limit legislation that would subject cryptocurrencies to more
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New figures show that £9m of fraud was stopped in the first year of the scheme, which involves bank staff calling in police when they suspect that someone is being duped or pressured into withdrawing large sums. In one case, a Barclays customer who was attempting to withdraw £10,000 to buy a Rolls
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ZURICH, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC),, the world's biggest lender, has obtained a Swiss banking licence from watchdog FINMA, the Handelszeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday. A FINMA spokesman confirmed the report. It is the second Chinese bank to
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2018 restaurant trend predictions from 10 fast casual CEOs … year is to get ahead of the coming trends, which is why FastCasual interviewed about 20 leaders of the industry's most successful brands about their industry predictions. … Significant impact on real estate site selection and size of restaurants.
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KUWAIT: Warba Bank launched a new banking system 'Bank Express' yesterday at Sanabel complex in Kuwait City. Based on its five-year strategy to be recognized as a leader in the digital banking industry, the Bank released the “Bank Express” which is an interactive electronic branch to help the
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The transition, which began a couple of weeks ago at Synovus Financial Corporation's two Cohutta Banking Company branches in Chattanooga, Tenn., will come to the Columbus market starting Jan. 3, with signs being replaced at the 16 local branches by Jan. 19, along with other smaller changes, said
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Citigroup has handed a handful of senior bankers new leadership roles in a regional reshuffle of its European financial institutions group. Manolo Falco, Citi's head of corporate and investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Peter Babej, who runs the financial institutions group
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Turner is a senior executive vice president, a member of the bank's executive council and head of Regions' Corporate Banking Group, which serves small businesses as well as middle market and corporate firms and provides capital markets services and real estate banking. He also leads corporate
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Nationally, home prices rose 7.8 percent in November as inventory declined 12.8 percent.
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Our specialty lending professionals offer customized credit solutions for venture capital and private equity firms, nonprofit organizations and professional service firms.
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Govt probes foreign links in crackdown on banking fraud … are investigating how identity thieves collaborated with hackers in Europe and South East Asia to steal millions of rupees from thousands of bank … We are worried that the security has been breached and have advised banks to take counter-
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After surging back to economic life this year, the eurozone's grandiose ambitions now include having its own budget and finance minister. But the plans are unlikely to go anywhere unless the bloc's leaders can agree on a more prosaic issue: banking union. The five-year-old project, designed to make
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Australia's biggest bank has admitted it was late to disclose more than 53,000 transactions that allegedly breached anti-money laundering laws. In August, the nation's financial intelligence agency launched court action against the Commonwealth Bank over claims it had failed to refer the transactions,
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On December 13, 2017, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe, delivered a speech entitled “An eAUD?” before the Australian Payment Summit. In his remarks, the governor noted the possibility of a currency based on distributed ledger technology . “Today I want to share with you
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The institutional investor owned 557,625 shares of the transportation company's stock after buying an additional 101,005 shares during the quarter. TD Asset Management Inc. owned about 0.31% of Expeditors International of Washington worth $33,379,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
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