Houston-based Stewart Title has announced the acquisition of Border Title Group of Laredo, Texas, for an undisclosed amount.Evan Quiros, the former owner and chief executive officer, has been named president of the renamed company, Stewart Border Title LLC, which will continue to do business as Border Title Group. Stewart Title said the acquisition "strategically positions Stewart to better serve South Texas multicultural communities where job growth is exploding at a rate far greater than in other U.S. markets." Stewart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corp., can be found online at http://www.stewart.com.
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JPMorganChase and Bank of America raised concerns about the proposed removal of risk-weighted assets from the denominator of the short-term wholesale funding component of the GSIB surcharge — changes backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly plans to send the recently passed housing bill to the White House on Monday, starting a 10-day clock for the president to sign the bill.
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The national delinquency rate rose 15 basis points to 3.5% last month due to a calendar anomaly, marking a 4.5% month-over-month incline and 9.4% annual change.
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ICE launched a fraud detection tool for underwriters, Newrez partnered with Matic and Rate announced a free home equity monitoring tool this month.
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Nearly one-third of states now have official nonbank standards for liquidity, capital and corporate governance that firms over a certain threshold must meet.
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KBW now rates UWM as outperform, and BTIG calls the stock a buy, but both cite high leverage levels and industry macro trends depressing its stock price.
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