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The credit card issuer Synchrony Financial recently used FICO’s top competitor in a $1 billion deal. The choice is significant for VantageScore, but FICO remains the dominant credit score in the securitization market, according to analysts.

No cause of death was provided for the longtime industry figure, who before joining CoreLogic in 2015 was at Freddie Mac for 28 years, including 13 as its chief economist.

Peter J. Glennon is the founder of Glennon Law Firm, P.C.

Delays in closing the deal after it was announced in August resulted in the parties' decision to remain separate, although they will still work together.

Doris Meister is executive vice president, wealth management at Wilmington Trust/M&T Bank and is also a member of the Management Committee.

Larry Furr is chief product officer at Canopy, a provider of practice management software for accounting firms.

Dean Smith is chief strategist at FolioBeyond and the portfolio manager of FolioBeyond Rising Rates ETF ($RISR). Dean has 25-plus years of experience in all aspects of structured products with roles as an investment banker, trader and hedge fund portfolio manager.

But for prospective buyers, soaring home prices in April pushed affordability closer to the all-time low set in June 2006.

While the appeal of homeownership and larger spaces led property values in many fire-prone regions to surge to new records, those areas are also seeing more frequent price drops, Redfin says.

Banks and fintechs wonder if regulators are getting more comfortable with machine learning-based ways of assessing credit, or if agency oversight will mean a crackdown.