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Caps on student borrowing could also play into how America pays for college.

A New York lender is more than ready for a Portland hospitality resurgence. Ready Capital, which assumed full ownership of the The Ritz-Carlton Portland mixed-use project following a foreclosure in July 2025, just secured $141 million of commercial property accessed clean energy (C-PACE) debt for the recapitalization of the 35-story tower, Commercial Observer has learned….

Asset-Based Loan, Loss Mit, Verification, AI-Native Execution; On-Site Events for your Calendar; Inflation Data One of the panels during this year’s California MBA Western Secondary focused on the ramp up of non-Agency/equity lending. Why has it increased as a portion of the overall residential origination pie? It is attributed to a changing economy…

Tokenization is a technology aimed at disintermediation. The act of migrating assets onto a blockchain, not the tokenization that underpins card security. Tokenizing a real-world asset means that the traditionally costly machinery standing between buyer and seller can disappear. As tokenized finance moves from demonstration projects toward institutional infrastructure, however, banks, stablecoin issuers, exchanges and…

Mortgage credit availability rose in July, driven in part by improved government mortgage availability. That’s according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) that analyzes data from ICE Mortgage Technology. According to the MBA, the MCAI rose by 2.5% to 108.4 in July. The MBA said that…

President Donald Trump, a longtime New Yorker who shifted his permanent residence to Florida in 2019, is taking aim at New York City’s pied-à-terre tax. The president railed against the controversial surcharge for second homes in a Truth Social post reported by Politico. His latest jab at a policy by Mayor Zohran Mamdani could be…

There is a quiet revolution happening in the background of financial services, and most brokers are sleeping on it. You do not need to hire a developer, spend months writing a project brief, or blow your budget on software that was built for someone else’s workflow.  The capability is called vibe coding, and it…

Accord Mortgages reduced its product rates from its residential and buy-to-let (BTL) ranges, by up to 18 basis points (bps). On fixed rate residential products up to 75% loan to value (LTV), reductions of up to 10bps were made. House purchase deals above 80% LTV saw reductions of up to 11bps whilst remortgage options…

StoneX Group (NASDAQ: SNEX) said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Banco Travelex S.A., marking a major step in its push to grow across Brazil’s payments and foreign exchange markets. Banco Travelex holds the distinction of being Brazil’s first bank focused solely on foreign exchange, regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil. The acquisition…

Navratna PSU giant National Aluminium Company, popularly known as NALCO witnessed a strong buying trend on Wednesday. NALCO skyrocketed by nearly 9% on BSE on August 12, tracking a broad-based buying trend in metal stocks after Norway-based aluminium and energy company Norsk Hydro ASA announced that its Brazil-based Alunorte alumina refinery has trimmed output to…