Investments

Less than a year after a Series C capital raise, the title insurer formerly known as States Title is about to complete a merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

The acquirer will use the liquidation of a residential mortgage company’s assets to move several notches up in the rankings.

The shift to higher-margin home purchase policies helped to boost results at First American, Old Republic and Stewart.

While the unit saw a bigger increase in purchase volume compared to its competitors, net income, loan sales margins and total volume was lower compared with prior periods.

The cloud-based mortgage software company plans on trading on the New York Stock Exchange with a starting price of $24 to $26 per share.

The software provider’s offering hit the top of its price range estimate and started trading at $18 per share.

The bank's second quarter production revenue was down 32% from the first quarter, even as volume increased 4%.

The New York-based lender projects it has a $3.6 trillion market opportunity outside of the U.S.

The $16 billion Champion Mortgage portfolio sale follows Ocwen Financial’s purchase of different assets from MAM a few weeks prior.

The company is looking to sell 20 million shares, with a 3 million underwriters' option, at between $16 and $18 per share.

It is only a modest positive for new publicly-traded mortgage companies if acting Federal Housing Finance Agency head Sandra Thompson rolled back the caps put in place by the agreement with the Treasury.

Issuers of leveraged loans appear ready to use SOFR, the popular alternative to LIBOR, putting leveraged loans a step ahead of the market.

How the pandemic is accelerating trends in financial advice and changing the way Americans manage their money.

The company plans on trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BLND

Investors appear to support the notion that lending to borrowers who don’t have traditional incomes could be a growth engine for lenders as other sources of volume weaken.

While the company did notify the public and regulators in May 2019, executives were not aware at the time that there was previous knowledge of the security vulnerability within the company.

The real estate technology company had a $498 million valuation, according to PitchBook, but it could get a sizable premium to that if it were to go public.

The alternative minimum tax would challenge at least one influential nonbank and big depositories, according to a new Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report.

The funding requests break sharply with the Trump administration's calls to eliminate key housing funds and backing for community development financial institutions. The White House also wants to substantially increase the budgets of the Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration.

The Treasury secretary previewed President Biden's budget by urging lawmakers to fund the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's establishment of a beneficial ownership regime.