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Request for Proposals Underwriting Services for Airport Revenue Bond Sales The City of New Orleans ('City'), by and through the New Orleans Aviation Board ('NOAB'), is requesting submittals from persons, [...]

STATE OF NEW JERSEYDEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURYREQUEST FOR PROPOSALS -- DUE: JUNE 15, 2018 The New Jersey Department of the Treasury is soliciting proposals from firms interested in providing underwriting [...]

Request for Proposals Advertisement The Clark County School District, Nevada is advertising the following Request for Proposal (RFP): Underwriting Services. Responses are due 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Thursday, September 21, [...]

Byline: Kyle Glazier, Aaron Weitzman With interest rates and underwriting spreads at historically low levels, some market participants now feel that underwriters and portfolio managers are walking a thin line [...]

Byline: Paul Burton Surety provider Arch Insurance will take over costs and oversee construction of a stalled minor-league ballpark in Hartford, Conn., according to an agreement in principle that Mayor [...]

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Assured Guaranty topped the rankings of municipal bond insurers for the second quarter while Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP was the leading bond counsel. Quarterly League Tables [...]

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Build America Mutual will list indicative secondary-market insurance premium quotes on the site of MuniBrokers LLC, an online service aggregating bond offerings and bid-wanted lists from nine [...]

Byline: Richard Williamson DALLAS -- The Texas Public Finance Authority is preparing to issue $500 million of unrated bonds to support the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, even as state lawmakers [...]

Byline: Rachel Witkowski Lenders can skip the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability-to-repay requirements when transferring mortgages from deceased borrowers to their next of kin, the bureau said last week. In [...]

Byline: Hillary Flynn Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. jumped up the municipal bond senior manager ranks in the first quarter, rising to ninth place from 18th on the strength of [...]

Byline: Oliver Renick Build America Mutual Assurance Company, the startup bond insurer launched in July 2012, will offer its insurance on secondary market trades through alternative trading system TMC Bonds. [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack The watchdog agency charged with overseeing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their regulator is planning a review of their efforts to rein in the cost of force-placed [...]

Byline: Lew Sichelman All the hand-wringing aside, underwriting guidelines for prime mortgages haven't changed much since the housing bust. But what has changed are lenders and their automated underwriting tools. [...]

Byline: Shelly Sigo BRADENTON, Fla. -- Alabama received $88.2 million more in bonuses for its Children's Health Insurance Program than allowed under the program, according to the office of inspector [...]

Byline: Tonya Chin State and local governments are paying bankers less and less each year to underwrite municipal bond deals as new-issue volume remains muted and competition remains high. For [...]

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock WE'RE HEARING... that two key themes in a white paper by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission earlier this year-the future of the insurance role in the [...]

Byline: Tonya Chin The fees that bankers are paid to underwrite municipal bonds have been declining since financial markets started their recovery in 2009, prompting some dealers to focus on [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is yet to rule in a key force-placed flood insurance case, but the member judges have already declared [...]

Byline: Karen Deis What is the most absurd condition you got from an underwriting on a mortgage file? Well, I asked that question on Facebook and here are 24 of [...]

Byline: John McDermott Periodically, I read new legal case updates and keep seeing a definite trend when it comes to homeowners insurance. The cases all relate to what happens when [...]

It's a shoppers' paradise for accountants seeking professional liability insurance, but be prepared for the bargain days to end. The current soft market for professional liability coverage has featured insurers [...]

The schedule of business insurance is provided as a service by the insurance professional to the client. The schedule is designed to give the client a brief summary of the [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Wells Fargo plans to give its underwriters more control in approving mortgages that it retains in its own portfolio, as the bank tries to add high-quality assets [...]

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau planning new rules on force-placed insurance in the coming year, at least one credit union servicer is taking proactive steps to [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff Upstatemortgageguy: Bogged down in processing and underwriting. We are constantly trying to tweak our workflow between the processors and underwriters, and I was looking for some advice [...]

Byline: Lloyd Booth Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once remarked, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' With apologies to the Great Houdini, I have to agree. Human [...]

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock A trend toward increased debt in general on the part of borrowers becoming eligible for reverse mortgages is something lenders that want to stay the course in [...]

Byline: Richard Williamson DALLAS - The Harris County Houston Sports Authority moved closer to using insurance to cover bond payments after dipping into debt-service reserves for the first time this [...]

Byline: Patrick McGee Seeing an increased appetite for munis from individual buyers, Fidelity Investments has ramped up its underwriting capabilities in recent years, saying it wants to give clients quicker [...]

Byline: Amilda Dymi The Consumer Federation of America informs that consumers across America 'are buying overpriced and often unneeded insurance,' including mortgage insurance, driven by seller kickbacks. It urged borrowers [...]

Byline: Patrick Mcgee High-profile industry veteran Thomas Gallo joined the recently created municipal underwriting and sales team at U.S. Bancorp Investments, it was confirmed Monday. A short-term bond specialist, Gallo [...]

Byline: Andrew Ackerman WASHINGTON - Municipal bond analysts worry that issuers increasingly are drawing on bond insurance to temporarily pay for debt service without disclosing the action to investors. 'Any [...]

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock Ally Financial's bankowned correspondent unit is getting back into wholesale by extending the centralized underwriting team it uses for all business-to-business and business-to-consumer mortgage lending to the [...]

Bank of America has expanded its residential underwriting guidelines for mortgage applicants that run their own businesses, which could loosen up credit to an underserved segment of the industry. The [...]

Byline: Bonnie Sinnock Virtually everyone knows underwriting has gotten tighter, but in the last few months the tightness has truly become unprecedented, according to John T. Walsh, president at lender [...]

Byline: Brian Collins WASHINGTON-Most top-ranked lenders have been tightening their underwriting standards all year but now the biggest buyer of conventional loans - Fannie Mae - is doing the same. [...]

Millions of homeowners 'underwater' and hopeful improvements in home prices that indicate the worst of the housing crisis may be behind us have renewed efforts to create a viable insurance [...]

Washington-The Treasury Department has unveiled a mortgage loan modification insurance program intended to protect investors from declines in house prices. The $10 billion Home Price Decline Protection program will 'offset [...]

Byline: Ted Phillips Kermitt Brooks will replace Eric Dinallo as acting superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, Gov. David Paterson said yesterday in a press release. Since January [...]

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board on Friday issued an exposure draft designed to improve the consistency in reporting and the measurement of retiree health insurance and other post-employment benefits. GASB [...]

INDIANAPOLIS-The second half of 2009 will keep CUs focused on services that reduce their expenses and manage risk, reports Allied Solutions, which predicts that involuntary unemployment insurance coverage could see [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA has rolled out a five-month media campaign featuring financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn to promote deposit protection provided by the NCUSIF. The agency said the campaign is aimed [...]

NEW YORK-The emerging 'green' insurance market may offer some revenue opportunity for CUSOs and other credit union related entities, according to a new poll from Simon-Kucher & Partners. The study, [...]

MADISON, Wis.-While the rough economy may lead to higher insurance premiums for credit unions in the coming years, the hardships could also boost demand among members for insurance products. 'Regardless [...]

Byline: John McDermott Thanks to American International Group hitting the skids (the government owned 80% of the insurer at press time), loan officers and mortgage brokers now have something else [...]

Massachusetts is looking to revamp its underwriting team as the state's current pool of investment banking contracts will expire by mid-October. The state's Department of Treasury yesterday released a request [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson said despite ongoing problems at certain institutions, the credit union industry is healthy and federally insured deposits are safe with the National CU [...]

Much as expected, credit market turmoil reverberated through bond insurer and other credit enhancement rankings through the first half of the year. The downgrades to most monolines allowed the remaining [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- As rivers recede in this state and others, credit unions are finding something else left behind by the floods: questions over their insurance coverages. Record flooding [...]

Last year turned out to be a pretty benign one in terms of the risks that most lenders worry about destroying collateral value. The hurricane season was fairly benign. With [...]