Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, Minneapolis, is offering banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders a "tool kit" aimed at helping them prepare for new Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act requirements. The company said its RESPA Tool Kit offers financial institutions an overview of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's changes. These include revisions to the Good Faith Estimate and HUD-1 and HUD-1A documents, as well as Settlement Cost booklets. The new RESPA requirements are slated to take effect on Jan. 1, 2010. Wolters Kluwer Financial Services provides compliance, content, and technology services.
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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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