Commercial banking

Karen Buck is executive vice president and chief administrative officer of EagleBank. Her most recent roles include executive vice president — director of operations/contact center at Flagstar Bank in Michigan and executive vice president — commercial, retail/payment operations at TD Bank. Ms. Buck earned a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in finance and Spanish from La Salle University in Philadelphia. She has been recognized by South Jersey Biz Magazine as one of the 25 Women to Watch, NJBIZ Journal as one of the Best 50 Women in Business, the American Banker Most Powerful Women Team Award and Crain's Detroit 100 Most Influential Women.

Recent rate movements have failed to result in significant purchase growth, but refinances are providing lenders some lift.

Atty Bruggemann, Esq. is a partner at Dimopoulos Bruggemann P.C., a matrimonial and family law firm based in Westchester County, New York that specializes in high-net-worth divorces.

Brian O'Connell is an analyst at insuranceQuotes.com, which publishes in-depth studies, data and analysis related to auto, home, health, life and business insurance. In his role as analyst, Brian studies the insurance industry in order to provide trusted tips, advice and insights. A former Wall Street trader, he is the author of the books "CNBC's Creating Wealth" and "The Career Survival Guide." His commentary appears regularly on major media platforms like Fox Business, U.S. News, The Motley Fool, TheStreet.com and many others. 

The Federal Reserve finalized its capital requirements for large banks Wednesday based on June's stress test outcomes.

Brandi Hodor is a senior analytic advisor with Merative. She brings over two and a half decades of healthcare strategic planning and a demonstrated history of leveraging a consultative approach to identify solutions and devise highly customized strategies to transform the healthcare industry. She is an industry expert in integrating psychographic segmentation and socio-demographic data. She oversees a cross-functional team that can deliver analytics with a commitment to innovative solutions in traditional and value-based care arrangements.

In the blue-chip bond market, a democratic victory would be supportive for basic industry, capital goods and utilities sectors, but a negative for telecoms, technology, banks, and autos.

Charles N. Cranmer, a former investment manager, writes the Substack, The Open Society and Its Banks.

Justin Cooper leads Orrick's Finance Sector and is a member of the firm's Board. He also serves as co-leader of Orrick's Public Finance department and chair of the firm's nationally prominent housing finance group.

The 1,055 loans in the pool are primarily non-qualified mortgages and loans that are exempt from ability-to-repay rules, which represent 36.4% and 43.87% of the pool, respectively.

Zack Schuler is the Executive Chairman and Founder of NINJIO, a leading cybersecurity awareness training company. With over 1,000,000 viewers a month, NINJIO empowers employees at some of the world's largest organizations to protect themselves against cyberthreats and scams. Prior to NINJIO, Zack founded Cal Net Technology Group, an I.T. Consulting and Security firm in 1995. Zack grew Cal Net into one of the larger MSPs in Southern California before selling the company to a private equity firm in 2013.

Canadian asset-backed commercial paper issuers eye chance to narrow massive financing gap created by the CDOR benchmark cessation.

Purchases managed a small rise, but refinance activity held steady, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Indexes from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that track trading strategies for each party show the Democratic one started outperforming the Republican one right around the time Biden stepped down as candidate.

Mary de Wet has about 25 years of experience in financial journalism. Before joining American Banker, she led the Dow Jones Newswires Americas team in covering corporate disclosures and analyzing news from Canada to Brazil. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron's.

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Justin Leader is the president and CEO of BenefitsDNA.

About 85% of U.S. homeowners have interest rates below 6%, while a little over 50% of homeowners have a rate below 4%, Redfin's report said.

The transaction has a nine-month revolving period. All of the leases are closed end, where the issuer bears the residual value risk, and more of them can be added during that period.

Bruce Willey is the founder and CEO of American Tax & Business Planning LLC, and is a CPA and tax attorney.

The Canadian lender's cushion for potential credit losses nearly doubled in the third quarter, while its U.S. business idled.