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Some of Wall Street’s savviest billionaire money managers oversee hundreds of trades per quarter. But in terms of sheer volume, these billionaires can’t hold a candle to President Donald Trump’s independent third-party money managers. According to data from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE), Trump’s investment team placed in the neighborhood of 21,000 trades…

Increasingly, Santander is leveraging global scale by focusing on and investing in global businesses – including those in retail banking. Latin America has been central to these efforts and it has seen the benefit. It was a pivotal year for Gravity, the bank’s in-house core banking cloud technology enabling post-mainframe migration. Starting with Chile, the…

In 2021, when mortgage rates were near historic lows, just 34% of the 30-year primary home-purchase loans carried points, according to a new analysis from Realtor.com®.  By 2023, as rates surged, that share had jumped to 60%. “The data provides strong evidence that rate level is the primary driver of the points-buying decision,” Jiayi Xu,…

In the middle of Los Angeles, four gleaming skyscrapers stretch toward the clouds. The glass-fronted development, dubbed Metropolis, includes two condo towers, one rental tower, and the luxury Indigo Hotel. All told, the block-long expanse includes more than 1,500 residential units. Its developer, Greenland USA, describes the complex as “a vibrant oasis where residents are…

EFG International has reported revenue-generating assets under management (AUM) of SFr196.3bn ($240.73bn) at the end of June 2026, representing a 21% increase from a year earlier.   Net profit for the first half was SFr184.6m, up 5% from the H1 2025 and 13% from H2 2025, excluding exceptional items recorded in 2025.  Net new assets totalled SFr5.7bn over…

Trade uncertainty inevitably shakes some buyer confidence, according to Toronto-based broker Micky Khaneka (pictured top) of Team MKG. “I think that’s the unfortunate part about it,” he told Canadian Mortgage Professional. “Just when we think people are ready to get settled in and they’re a little bit more comfortable with these big once-in-a-lifetime decisions and…