Fieldstone Investment Corp., a Maryland-based mortgage banker, has priced a $703 million public offering of 47.1 million shares of common stock at $15 per share.Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., the Arlington, Va.-based exclusive placement agent for the offering, said the net proceeds to Fieldstone will be approximately $657.4 million. Fieldstone will use the proceeds to redeem the nonmanagement shares of common stock outstanding before the offering, build its portfolio of nonconforming residential mortgages, repay borrowings under its warehouse lines of credit and repurchase facilities, fund working capital, and for other corporate purposes, FBR said. FBR can be found on the Web at http://www.fbr.com.
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Mike Kortas is looking to keep loan officers in the loop through the entire mortgage loan customer lifecycle and beyond, with the launch of evoLend.
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Private residential construction spending rose 0.3% from April and 1.8% from a year ago to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $930.2 billion in May.
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Artificial intelligence is fueling litigation risks, from consumer lawsuits against servicers, to more repurchase requests, and vulnerabilities through vendors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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