American Home Mortgage Investment, Melville, N.Y., has priced a public offering of 12.5 million shares of common stock at $25 per share.The underwriters have been granted an option to buy up to 1.875 million shares to cover any overallotments, the company said. The joint lead managers of the offering were Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc.
A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
