In a land of giants, tiny banks must rely on the little things (Reg Req’d)
Bank of America , after absorbing FleetBoston last year in a $50-billion deal, now has 5,800 branches in 30 states.
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Market Street Mortgage diversifies with geographic growth strategy (BizJournals) CLEARWATER -- Douglas Freeman, chairman and CEO of NetBank, believes strongly that the right strategy for the company's Market Street Mortgage subsidiary is to follow Horace Greeley's advice to "go
Getting a Mortgage with Bad Credit (Advocate Tribune) (ARA) - Having bad credit is not the end of the world and it's not impossible to get a loan. Generally, credit scores below 600 are considered sub-prime and the
NAACP claims mortgage bias (Orlando Sentinel) A lawsuit says a dozen lenders discriminated by steering blacks to higher-interest subprime loans. The NAACP sued a dozen mortgage lenders Wednesday, claiming the companies discriminated against
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Real estate agents need to step up game in '07 Unfortunately, there has been excessive mortgage fraud over the last four years, and as times continue to get worse you will have more crooks operating.Commentread more...
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