John M. Robbins Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of AmNet Mortgage Inc., has been nominated as vice chair-elect of the Mortgage Bankers Association.The mortgage banking veteran will be elected to the post at the MBA's annual convention in San Francisco in October, the association said. Mr. Robbins is serving his third term on the MBA's board of directors and has twice been elected to its board of governors, according to the MBA. Mr. Robbins is the founder of American Residential Mortgage Corp., which was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank in 1994. The MBA can be found on the Web 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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