Southeast Asian P2P lending platform Funding Societies raises $25M Series B led by Softbank …

Southeast Asian P2P lending platform Funding Societies raises $25M Series B led by Softbank …

Ahead of GDPR, Facebook debuts enhanced privacy controls for all users globally, starting in EU, with more choices about ads, allowing face recognition, more — In recent weeks we've announced several steps to give people more control over their privacy and explain how we use data.
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Why 2018 in Markets Feels So Awful

Last year was unusual in many ways for financial markets. When expectations for how events normally unfold become challenged by data way outside its normal range, it is easy to imagine the world has gone mad. A science-fiction genre exists where the protagonists have jumped to (or awoken in) an
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Guild Mortgage Launches Guild 360 Sales and Marketing Platform

Guild Mortgage has launched Guild 360, a sales, marketing and customer relationship management platform powered by Salesforce. With Guild 360, Loan Officers have a comprehensive array of new information support tools to better connect with each customer and enhance their individual borrowing
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Business Buzz for the week of April 20

Firefly hosts first-time homebuyer seminars. Burnsville-based Firefly Credit Union has launched its First Time Homebuyer Program and will host seminars for those new to the home search process. The seminars will cover steps in the mortgage financing process from application to closing. A local realtor
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Americans agree housing is a good investment — but some deeper differences reveal how severe …

More than a decade after the housing bust, most Americans agree that a house is a good investment. But there are interesting differences depending on where they live, annual surveys conducted by the New York Federal Reserve show. Rising home prices have inspired confidence in the housing
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Why Is My Mortgage Payment Changing?

When you get a mortgage or any other kind of loan, it's common to think that you make a set payment every month. It just continues that way until 30 years down the line when you finally pay it off … right? With a mortgage, your principal and interest payment may not change if you have a fixed-rate loan.
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California Opens Investigation of Tesla Workplace Conditions

California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health has opened an investigation into Tesla Inc. following a report about worker protections at the company's lone auto plant in Fremont, California. The state agency “takes seriously reports of workplace hazards and allegations of employers'
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Amazon partners with Best Buy on smart TVs, a "win-win"

FILE – This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon is looking to expand its dominance globally, announcing international customers can now buy more than 45 million items via its app. The move positions Amazon to capture shoppers abroad the same way it has
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MGIC earnings rise as housing market booms

“We continue to benefit from the current conditions of the employment and housing markets, favorable demographics that are helping fuel the purchase mortgage market, and a higher interest rate environment,” said Patrick Sinks, chief executive officer of MGIC Investment Corp. and Mortgage Guaranty
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New Orleans Saints Season Ticket Holder to Receive 2018 Draft Experience

As well as being a huge Saints fan, Laliberte also owns Bayou Title, Inc., the largest real estate title company in Louisiana, having 19 locations statewide as well as an office complex in Gretna, La. Brent, along with his wife Kathy, use the Saints games to spend quality time with their family of four children
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This real estate broker is (literally) calling the shots

The 39-year-old commercial real estate broker for years has served as a public address announcer for numerous sports teams up and down the East Coast. He also is wrapping up a yearlong stint as president of the Commercial Brokers Association, a 400-plus member organization representing the
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Starbucks' Plan To Take On Racial Bias

Starbucks is wasting no time addressing the uproar after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia store last week for the crime of being black in public. Their actions have been, thus far, honest and inspiring. “I'm embarrassed, ashamed. I think what occurred was reprehensible at every single level.
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[VIDEO] How much money did mortgage lenders lose last year?

A new report, the Annual Mortgage Bankers Performance Report, from the Mortgage Bankers Association held bad news for loan officers: profits are down. But just how much did lenders lose last year? The video below breaks it down.
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Mortgage Applications Rise as Affordable Options Remain Elusive

Separately, a new data analysis conducted by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Realtor.com identified the statewide markets with the lowest housing affordability as Hawaii, California, Oregon, the District of Columbia, Montana and Rhode Island. Households with the median income level
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Glycoprotein Market 2018 Global Industry Size, Segments, Share and Growth Factor Analysis …

This Research Report manages lending tasks including parentage, collateral, closing, and documentation for related services, title companies, Industry Chain Structure, Business Strategies. Glycoprotein Industry Market research report shows a comprehensive overview of market size and growth rate of
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I did the first long-term study investigating illegal ivory traders. Here's what I learned.

First, the illegal ivory trade isn't organized by a transnational crime syndicate or international gang. Rather, local traders buy and sell from and to a variety of sources, depending on what opportunities arise. Particular locations — such as border towns — act as key nodes, destinations and transit hubs
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Iceland: Bitcoin Heist Suspect Has Likely Fled to Sweden

“He had an accomplice,” Police Chief Gunnar Schram told Visir, an online news outlet in Iceland. “We are sure of that.” A passenger on the same flight to Sweden as the inmate told national broadcaster RUV that Iceland's prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, was also on that flight. Jakobsdottir was among
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StreetWire Blockchain Network To Revolutionize Real Estate Transactions

Jonathan Miller, the author of the Elliman Reports and leading industry authority on US residential market trends recently stated, “StreetWire's decentralized network has the potential to become the authoritative source for real estate market data.” The key to StreetWire's confidence about real estate data
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Silicon Valley Giants Face a Test in Russia

The Russian authorities' first experiment with blocking a popular messenger application — Telegram — is not working out so far. The web censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has blocked millions of internet addresses to beat Telegram into submission, but it's still widely available even without any bypass
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Southwest Airlines Races to Inspect Plane Engines After Deadly Explosion

Southwest Airlines is racing to do an inspection of all of the engines in its aircraft similar to the one that exploded Tuesday, resulting in several injuries and the death of a New Mexico woman following an emergency landing in Philadelphia. On Tuesday night, hours after Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
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