Marketplace loans rising in investors' estimation

Investments in marketplace or peer-to-peer loans is attracting the attention of asset owners and money managers as the securitization of those loans — and their assessment by ratings agency — grows, according to a Greenwich Associates report issued Tuesday. “The marketplace lending model is
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Capcom today announced that Monster Hunter: World has surpassed another sales milestone to become the company's best-selling title yet. Monster Hunter: World is doing very well. The game is fantastic, and, just three days after launch, had already shipped five million units. What once was a cult
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However, some trends seem counter-intuitive: real estate as an interest increases in old age and Family reduces.” Splitting the figures by gender reveals that while men and women both share an affinity for business and philanthropy, women are more into art (24.1 per cent) and men are more into sports
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Often when it comes to love and marriage, when you know you know. Other times, the one you should love and marry is predicted by a fortune teller in a school play who lays out for your character that they are going to marry someone named “William.” This happened to a thirteen-year-old Kate
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“I've been in real estate since 2004,” said Paul Rushforth, principal of the firm that bears his name, “and I've never seen such a listings-starved market.” How starved? The Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Monday that there were just 3,028 residential properties for sale at the end of February, along
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Russian trolls used Reddit to spread propaganda in prelude to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Reddit said on Monday. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a post on Reddit that the company removed a “few hundred accounts” from its social media service that it believed were linked to Russian-based
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Call buying has more than quadrupled put buying during the past 10 days at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), with calls accounting for the top four open positions on Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Specifically, the April
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At a time when harmful rhetoric and policies from the Trump Administration are sowing divisions that attempt to marginalize racial, ethnic and other minorities, Congress should not weaken civil rights law or consumer protections by exempting more than four in five banks and credit unions from a
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There is little indication that real estate is bustling with activity, leave alone booming, i.e., trends that would explain similar cash operation levels as in the period before DeMo, GST, etc, occurred. It can reasonably be assumed that cash-intensity and use is lower in the latter period. Last of all is the gold
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Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. (PRMI) has named mortgage industry veteran Mary Beth Henderson “We are thrilled to have Mary Beth join our team,” said Kyndle Quinones, PRMI's Severna Park Branch Manager. “With her knowledge and experience, she will help us achieve our goal of financing
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Subscribe to The Broadsheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the world's most powerful women. The Gopher State ranked first on measures of economic and social well-being (which made up 60% of the total score). WalletHub measure this through factors like median earnings, unemployment rates, and
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But as the now decade-old home-sharing platform matured and the number of rental properties proliferated dramatically, a second genre emerged, one that focused on what the service was doing to the larger community: Airbnb was raising rents and taking housing off the rental market.
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“Shadow banking” grew by nearly 8 per cent globally to more than $45tn on a conservative measure after international rulemakers were able to include detailed data from China and Luxembourg for the first time. Shadow banking — the parts of the financial system that perform banklike functions such as
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“We still have some homes that are selling in short order and with multiple offers, but others are taking longer and multiple offers are no longer the rule,” Schmidt said in a press release. The Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors handles real estate transactions for Kitchener, Waterloo, Wellesley,
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But while mortgage debt rose, mortgage balances were 4.4 percent below the peak levels set in 2008, while some states that were severely impacted in the recession—including Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada—have balances far below their respective highs. Furthermore, the median credit
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The stock of KINGDEE INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE GROUP COM (OTCMKTS:KGDEF) registered an increase of 1.12% in short interest. KGDEF's total short interest was 9.78 million shares in March as published by FINRA. Its up 1.12% from 9.68M shares, reported previously. With 66,700 shares
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Cryptocurrency investors rushed to Ripple Monday, driving the price up 15% in early trading, amid renewed rumors that Coinbase was considering adding it to its offerings. XRP, a digital offering by Ripple that is used for cross-border payments, is fairly difficult to buy, as it's not offered on most major
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway's real estate brokerage is expanding overseas with an acquisition in Germany. Berkshire Hathaway Home Services said Monday it is adding Berlin-based Rubina Real Estate to its network. Financial terms weren't disclosed. The deal gives Warren Buffett's
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Home prices across the US have grown 51% since they bottomed out in March 2011, with prices in most markets returning to peak levels after dropping 33% during the recession, according to a new report released by CoreLogic. The increase in home prices indicates that the housing market has widely
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This happened as the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM), per Freddie Mac, increased by 43 basis points to 4.38 percent. Since then rates have risen more slowly; they closed out last week at 4.43 percent. These increases put the average rate back to levels last reached in the spring of
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