Craig I. DeRoy has been named president of The First American Corp., a Santa Ana, Calif.-based provider of economic information, including title insurance and mortgage data.Mr. DeRoy, who was most recently senior executive vice president, will succeed Parker S. Kennedy, who will continue as chairman and chief executive officer of First American. Mr. DeRoy began his career as a trial attorney and served a three-year appointment as a deputy chief with a U.S. attorney's office. He later formed First Environmental Review Insurance Co., where he "pioneered a new form of real estate insurance covering certain forms of environmental risk," First American said. The company can be found on the Web at http://www.firstam.com.
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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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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.
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The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
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The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
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