The Mortgage Bankers Association has reported appointments to its 2005 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors, which focuses on commercial/multifamily real estate finance policy issues and initiatives.The COMBOG officers are: Dan Phelan, president and chief executive officer of San Diego-based Pacific Southwest Realty Services, chair; Ed Hurley, managing director of Charlotte, N.C.-based Wachovia Securities, vice chair; and Kieran Quinn, president and CEO of Atlanta-based Column Financial, who remains vice chair. The trade association also announced six new members of the 30-member COMBOG: Sally Gordon, Moody's Investors Service, New York; Steven K. Graves, Principal Global Investors, Des Moines, Iowa; Thomas C. Jensen, Allstate Investments, Northbrook, Ill.; Henry J. Schwendiman, Q10 Bonneville Mortgage, Salt Lake City; Brian F. Stoffers, L.J. Melody & Co., Houston; and Deborah C. Towner, Genworth Financial, Seattle. The MBA can be found online at http://www.mortgagebankers.org.
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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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