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MLO Mentor: The adjustable-rate mortgage, Part II

by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 5, 2022 | Feature Articles, Loan Products, Mortgages, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

MLO Mentor is an ongoing series covering compliance best practices for mortgage loan originators...

LIBOR phase out begins on December 31, 2021. Are you ready?

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 6, 2021 | Economics, Finance, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

As LIBOR’s demise quickly approaches, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) is the backup rate of choice.

DFPI Bulletin Digest: December 2020

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 22, 2020 | Real Estate | 0

The December 2020 DFPI Bulletin focuses on new state laws for 2021, public banking regulations and LIBOR transition guidance. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI, formerly the Department of...

Guidance for the LIBOR transition

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jul 19, 2020 | Finance, Fundamentals | 0

The time is now for financial institutions to begin planning the transition away from the LIBOR.

Another Libor banker bites the dust

by Jeffery Marino | Oct 29, 2013 | Real Estate | 1

Rabobank admitted to criminal wrongdoing this week for their part in the Libor scandal.

UK’s handover of Libor is largely symbolic

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 25, 2013 | Real Estate | 0

The NYSE takeover of Libor allows the UK to wash its hands of the scandal…

Libor’s new “independent” administrator

by Jeffery Marino | Jul 15, 2013 | Real Estate | 0

Last we reported on the Libor scandal, several no-name bankers involved in the rate rigging were being arrested. All’s been quiet on the Libor front, business as usual until now.

The votes are in: bank CEOs ought to be criminally prosecuted

by Jeffery Marino | Feb 17, 2013 | Finance, Laws and Regulations, Reader Polls, Real Estate | 1

Readers weigh in on topics affecting the California real estate industry.

Do the Libor arrests herald justice?

by Jeffery Marino | Dec 20, 2012 | Laws and Regulations, Loan Products, Real Estate | 7

In the world of high finance, it looks like hell has frozen over.

Can the Libor be fixed?

by Jeffery Marino | Oct 11, 2012 | Interest Rates, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

If “fixed” is defined as “rigged” or “illegally prearranged,” then yes, it certainly can.

Libor and you—a match made in. . .

by Jeffery Marino | Aug 12, 2012 | Feature Articles, Interest Rates, Loan Products, Real Estate | 0

What’s Libor got to do with it? Learn the origins of the Libor and how it affects California real estate agents and brokers as well as the greater U.S. economy.