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As vice president for strategy at Sovos, Christiaan Van Der Valk leads research into trends in the market and tax legislation. His insight and expertise are instrumental in determining business strategy and when to buy, build or partner to create solutions that meet emerging trends. He is an internationally recognized voice on e-business strategy, law, policy, best practice and commercial issues. He was elected a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. He is the vice-chair of the Global Exchange Network Association (GENA) and chairs the CIAT (Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations) Digitalization Dialogue.

The president is likely to nominate Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman to be the central bank's next vice chair for supervision, a post vacated by Michael Barr.

The morning after President Donald Trump addressed corporate America in Washington, one of the nation's top chief executives called on him for more policy certainty.

Refinance activity was up 16% from the end of February while purchase applications rose mildly, on the strength of fading rates amid larger economic woes.

In a positive sign for the economy, headline inflation slowed in February. But the reading alone likely is not enough to break the Federal Open Market Committee out of its wait-and-see mode.

Loan officers have said the majority of outreach from recruiters looks like impersonal "telemarketing."

The Irvine, California-based firm reported a net loss of $67.5 million in the fourth quarter.

The company is a leading player in the primary and secondary markets for government-backed reverse mortgages and also has been developing proprietary products.