TCF Financial, the banking parent of a mid-sized residential servicing company, has received preliminary approval from the Treasury Department to participate in the agency's capital purchase program. In a statement, TCF of Wayzata, Minn., said the government will buy $361 million worth of preferred stock in the depository and receive a warrant to buy 3.2 million shares of its common. At mid-year, the bank's subsidiary, TCF Mortgage of Minneapolis, ranked 54 among residential servicers with $6.7 billion in housing receivables, according to the Quarterly Data Report. The capital purchase effort is part of the government's new Troubled Asset Relief Program, legislated into law by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
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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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