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Tom Neill was managing shareholder of Finney, Neill & Co. His 40-plus years in public accounting primarily focused on assurance and attest services as well as financial statement preparation and business consulting experience in a large variety of industries. His experience also includes working with business and individual tax matters. He also teaches continuing education courses in regulatory ethics.

He is a member of the AICPA's National Pipeline Advisory Group; current chair of the AICPA Uniform Accountancy Act Committee; and a member of the NASBA Peer Review Compliance Committee. He spent nine years on the Washington State Board of Accountancy (including two years as board chair); and is a past-member of the NASBA Ethics and Professional Issues Committee, a past member of the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee, and past president of the Washington Society of CPAs. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1980 and received his CPA license in 1983.

Numbers the Federal Housing Finance Agency just reported for 2022 were the third lowest since the program began, and this year's probably won't be high either.

Proceeds from the sale of assets to Oaktree Funding would be used to pay off debt to warehouse lenders

The Federal Reserve is expected to pause at its September meeting. Jeff Timlin, a managing partner at Sage Advisory, will join us on Sept. 21 to provide analysis of the meeting.

Denise M. Tyson is the CEO and founder of Schaefer City Technologies. Tyson is a financial and operational management executive with extensive experience in the insurance industry, including insurtech startups, mergers/acquisitions, reorganizations, and financially challenging situations. She has held C-level positions with multiple insurance companies since 2000. She was the founder of Simplicity, Inc. an insurtech startup focused on pay-as-you-go personal auto insurance; the president of Go Insurance Company, part of a fully integrated insurtech organization; and the first EVP and CFO of Doma (fka States Title, Inc.) an insurtech company transforming the title industry.

Tyson started her finance and accounting career in public accounting in New York City working for KPMG and went on to work with PwC in Los Angeles as a Senior Manager leading their Financial Services team before launching into the insurance and insurtech industries. Tyson is a Certified Public Accountant. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Villanova University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

As housing-industry groups sought relief from the Federal Reserve, overall loan-application volumes eked out a weekly gain last week thanks to ARM activity, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The Federal Reserve Governor's remarks sounded somewhat less hawkish than her comments on Oct. 2, when she said multiple rate hikes would likely be needed to contain price pressures. 

Nurasyl Serik is the Co-Founder & CEO at Remofirst, a startup transforming global payroll and compliance for remote teams, with a mission to simplify and streamline the future of work.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in a lawsuit that the nonbank lender violated a 2019 consent order and submitted incorrect information in 2020.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said the CFPB is enforcing a long-dormant provision of Dodd-Frank in its advisory opinion prohibiting banks from charging fees to obtain basic account information.