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First California Mortgage Company Continues to Create Jobs
Despite a decline in the lending industry, First California Mortgage (First Cal) has expanded its workforce and continues to search for additional qualified candidates to fill openings at its Petaluma headquarters. Since June, the mortgage lender has hired approximately 70 new employees in... - October 23, 2010 - First California Mortgage Company
Two Attorneys Join Smith Dollar PC
Henry A. Cirillo and Reed E. Harvey enhance litigation team - October 23, 2010 - Smith Dollar PC
Colliers International Integrates Services Under a Single Brand
World’s Third Largest Commercial Real Estate Services Firm Aligns Global Enterprise to Provide Clients with Seamless Services - October 23, 2010 - Colliers International Albania
Total Mortgage Services Hires Michael Dimech to Head Operations
Total Mortgage Services, LLC, a leading mortgage lender and broker that offers some of the lowest mortgage rates available, announced today the hiring of Michael Dimech as the Company’s new head of operations. Mr. Dimech brings to this new position over 15 years of operation management and underwriting experience within the mortgage industry with a strong focus on efficiency modeling, risk management and team building. - October 22, 2010 - Total Mortgage
Freedom Debt Relief Quarterly Comment: New Federal Reserve, BEA Reports Show Economic Stabilization
CEO urges consumers to continue paying off debt in improving conditions - October 22, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network
EPC Commercial Capital Group, LLC is Pleased to Announce Its Affiliation with Service Financial, LLC – an Inc. 500 Company
New Company Increases Ability for Individual Investors to Take Control of Their Retirement Accounts, Eliminate Investment Fees, and Reduce Tax Burdens. This is all accomplished by setting up a Self Directed IRA. Read on to find out how. - October 19, 2010 - EPC Commercial Capital Group, LLC
Smith Dollar Hosts Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee Mixer
The Santa Rosa law firm of Smith Dollar PC recently hosted The Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce’s Political Action Committee Mixer. - October 17, 2010 - Smith Dollar PC
Bellwether Community Credit Union Launches CheckDeposit24
Members can now make deposits 24/7 through an innovative remote deposit capture service. - October 17, 2010 - Bellwether Community Credit Union
Rescue Capital Launches New Website
Specialty finance firm, Rescue Capital, has launched a new English-language version of their website this week. The site, www.rescuecapital.com was designed to provide potential and current customers with content to help them achieve their financial goals. In addition, the website’s design... - October 15, 2010 - Rescue Capital
Advance My Sales Launches AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement Merchant Cash Advance
Advance My Sales, a Newport Beach, California-based Merchant Cash Advance and Business Funding Company, has officially launched AdvancePlus+ Credit Improvement for business owners seeking a Merchant Cash Advance. President, Eric Shasha, said “This is a great service that not only helps... - October 14, 2010 - Advance My Sales
Freedom Financial Network, Glow Foundation Offer Budgeting Tips for New Students
Bay-area partnership seeks to improve financial literacy, reduce debt among young adults. - October 13, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network
Sparkbase Announces ApproveYourCard.com Launch
SparkBase announces an online portal to submit and manage custom gift and loyalty card orders. - October 12, 2010 - SparkBase LLC
Old Florida National Bank Completes Merger with Mercantile Capital Corporation
Old Florida National Bank (Old Florida), headquartered in downtown Orlando, and Mercantile Capital Corporation (Mercantile), based in Altamonte Springs, announced they have closed on their merger agreement three months ahead of schedule. Earlier the two companies announced their intention to merge... - October 10, 2010 - Mercantile Capital Corporation
Edmonton Area Mortgage Brokers Take on REALTORS® in Baby Heroes Diaper Challenge
When Gordon McCallum, president of First Foundation Residential Mortgages and director on the Alberta Mortgage Brokers Association (AMBA) board, found out that the Edmonton REALTORS® Community Foundation had pledged to raise 23,000 diapers for Terra’s second annual Baby Heroes diaper drive campaign this year, he decided that Edmonton area mortgage brokers could easily beat this goal if they worked together. - October 10, 2010 - First Foundation Inc.
‘The Handbag Buyer’ Offers Safe Alternative for Selling Used Handbags
San Diego Jewelry Buyers has announced that it is now offering sellers of pre-owned luxury handbags a safe place to exchange their used bags for quick cash, through it’s new subsidiary company, The Handbag Buyer. - October 09, 2010 - San Diego Jewelry Buyers
Wayne Allyn Root to Co-Host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET
Wayne Allyn Root will co-host “Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies” www.winningstrategies.net on October 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Wayne Allyn Root is a former anchorman and TV host on Financial News Network (now known as CNBC), his careers as an CEO, entrepreneur and politician... - October 07, 2010 - Corporate Strategies, LLC
Mortgage Delivery Specialists (MDS) Successfully Completes SAS 70 Audit
Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC (MDS), the premier provider of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae Mortgage Delivery Services is pleased to announce that it has recently completed a SAS 70 Type 1 audit of its mortgage loan analysis, servicing portfolio analysis and Agency securitization... - October 07, 2010 - Mortgage Delivery Specialists LLC
Pivotal Payments Partners with BizTracker to Offer Payment Processing Solution
Pivotal Payments, a leading payment processor, and Biztracker, provider of Infinity Point of Sale (POS) software, announced a business partnership that will integrate Pivotal Payments’ debit and credit card processing into Biztracker’s software solution. Biztracker Infinity delivers a... - October 07, 2010 - Pivotal Payments
Great Oak Lending Announces Merger with 1st Maryland Mortgage Corporation
Deal Makes Great Oak Direct Lender with Ability to Fund up to $25 Million per Month in Home Loans; New Company Plans to Hire up to 30 Employees by Year-End - October 06, 2010 - Great Oak Reverse
Office and Retail Markets in Tirana Remain Sedate During 2010 Anticipating Further Growth in 2011
Colliers International Albania is happy to announce the results of its Real Estate Review for the first half of 2010. According to Colliers, the total office stock of Class A, B+ and B in Tirana amounts to 63,400 m2 and no new supply has been added to this inventory since the entrance of ABA... - October 06, 2010 - Colliers International Albania
One2One Lending Personal Lending Article Launch
Articles written by experts to help guide the personal lending relationship. The Resource Center at One2One Lending now includes an extensive list of articles to learn from. These articles are written by experts in the personal lending field and are presented in a thoughtful and easy to use format. - October 03, 2010 - One2One Lending
New Website for Vendible Broker
The diverse and rapidly expanding Vendible Broker has just launched its new entertainment website. This site will be ever updated and evolving however is a launching point for their growing needs. - October 03, 2010 - Vendible Broker
United Mediation Services New Website Goes Live Today
www.unitedmediationservices.com Now Features State of The Art tools for credit collections. - October 02, 2010 - John Pillow
Macallan Construction Awarded Contract to Renovate St. Monica's
Macallan Construction is pleased to announce that they have been awarded the contract to renovate St. Monica’s in downtown Raleigh. Built in 1930 by the Catholic Diocese the one story brick building once provided elementary education for African American children for nearly 37 years. Through... - October 02, 2010 - Macallan Construction
CardReady Launches Second Phase of Targeted B2B Advertising Campaign
CardReady has launched the second phase of its targeted B2B advertising campaign highlighting the company’s ability to service high risk merchants with challenging banking requirements. - September 30, 2010 - CardReady
First Mortgage Broker from Dundee Scoops Barclays August Award
Dundee Mortgage Broker, Wendy Whyte, of First Mortgage Direct, has been recognised by Barclays as the leading Mortgage Broker in the UK for August. - September 30, 2010 - First Mortgage Direct Ltd
Chesswood Income Fund Announces Renewal and Expansion of Pawnee Leasing Corporation's Bank Credit Facility
Pawnee Leasing Corporation renewed and expanded its credit facility, for a term of three years. - September 29, 2010 - Pawnee Leasing Corporation
Pivotal Payments Announces 2010 Mid-Year Results
Pivotal Payments, one of North America’s fastest growing payment processors, announced their 2010 semi-annual results exceeded expectations in a variety of key indicators. - September 28, 2010 - Pivotal Payments
San Diego Jewelry Buyers Sees Growing Trend in Gold & Handbags
San Diego Jewelry Buyers is reporting an increasing trend where shoppers are purchasing pre-owned designer handbags and gold jewelry rather than products of lesser quality. - September 26, 2010 - San Diego Jewelry Buyers
Mercantile Capital Corporation Projects Closing Loans for a Record $140 Million in Total Project Costs in 2010
Mercantile Capital Corporation, the seven-year-old Altamonte Springs firm that specializes in U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 loans for small businesses, expects to finance a total of more than $140 million in total projects in 2010. Christopher Hurn, chief executive officer of... - September 26, 2010 - Mercantile Capital Corporation
Teaching Small Businesses the Language of Credit and Finance. Learning Corporate Finance Help Small Businesses Take the First Step in Removing Access to Finance Barriers.
Access to credit for small businesses is an issue for all the wrong reasons. One reason is credit education and the ability to speak the language of credit. Learning Corporate Finance, a warehouse of online courses aims to solve this problem - September 23, 2010 - Learning Corporate Finance
MicroVentures.com Launches New Service Which Gives Investors Access to Venture Capital Deals
MicroVentures is positioned as the future of venture capital funding, facilitating investment in tenable entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurs can access a broader range of investors, increasing their chances of getting funded, and investors can invest smaller amounts than typically expected in traditional venture capital situations. This opens up early access and spreads investor risk, while benefiting from a review and due diligence process similar to that of other venture capital companies. - September 21, 2010 - Microventure Marketplace Inc.
Even as Consumer Credit Card Balances Drop, Repay Debt, Says Freedom Debt Relief Exec
As CARD Act takes effect, Freedom Debt Relief suggests consumers pay off debt, avoid overconfidence. - September 19, 2010 - Freedom Financial Network
RealUp.com Partners with ORION to Display Prudential Real Estate Listings
RealUp, an online commercial real estate service, has worked with ORION Commercial Services, LLC to upload property listings from affiliates of the Prudential Real Estate Network. The Prudential Real Estate listings will be added to the existing database of properties that are accessible to... - September 19, 2010 - RealUp.com
Voyage Home Loans Donates School Supplies to Freeport Elementary School
Voyage Home Loans provides school supplies to third graders. - September 17, 2010 - Voyage Home Loans
CardReady Promotes Kevin Hoehn to President
CardReady announced today that current Chief Operating Officer Kevin Hoehn has been promoted to President effective immediately. Mr. Hoehn, who joined CardReady in January of this year, will now be responsible for managing all of CardReady’s internal departments. - September 15, 2010 - CardReady
Former J.G. Wentworth Vice President Joins Rescue Capital
Former Vice President of Underwriting for J.G. Wentworth, Maureen Healy has joined Rescue Capital as Chief Operations Officer. - September 11, 2010 - Rescue Capital
Amero Enterprise Launches New Pell Grants Website, PellGrants.us
PellGrants.us is the Biggest Site in the Realm of College Grants. The Site Provides Free Information, Tools, and Strategies Helping Undergraduate and Graduate Students Pay for College with Money That is Not Required to Pay Back. - September 10, 2010 - Amero Enterprise
CardReady Appoints Art Porth as Executive Vice President
CardReady announced the appointment of Art Porth as the company’s new Executive Vice President. With an extensive background in electronic payments, Mr. Porth will oversee all of CardReady’s strategic business development and mange both its direct and indirect sales channels. - September 09, 2010 - CardReady
RealUp Launches Commercial Real Estate Mobile App
RealUp.com, the leader in commercial real estate listings, released its mobile application for commercial property searching available for the iPhone. The RealUp iPhone app, which is also compatible with the iPod Touch and iPad, was designed for iOS4 and includes augmented reality. Now available as... - September 04, 2010 - RealUp.com
A New Online Matchmaking Site is Causing a Quiet Storm Within the Real Estate Investment Sector
Fundthatdeal.com is an innovative new platform for real estate entrepreneurs to pitch their latest deals to a network of private investors seeking out the next real estate deal to invest in. - September 03, 2010 - Fund That Deal
Scientific Capital Arranges 1.3 Million SBA 7a Refinance for Independent Motel in Oregon
Refinancing a motel with a seller carry back within the 24-month minimum wait period - September 03, 2010 - Scientific Capital Group, Inc.
Bellwether Community Credit Union Sponsors Breast Cancer Awareness Event, Manchester NH
Bellwether Community Credit Union Encourages Employees, Members, Community to Come Together for Breast Cancer Cure - September 02, 2010 - Bellwether Community Credit Union
RMCN Credit Services, Inc. is in the Inc. 5000 for Third Straight Year
No. 4562, Industry Rank No. 210. Industry: Financial Services 2008: Overall Rank 408 Industry Rank 24 2009: Overall Rank 1622 Industry Rank 69 2010: Overall Rank 4562, Industry Rank 210 Three Year Growth: 17% 2006 Revenue: $5.1 million 2009 Revenue: $5.9 million Founded: 1997 Employee: 85 Web... - September 01, 2010 - RMCN Credit Services, Inc.
Top National Financial Relief Firm, Loan Solutions, Moves and Expands Facilities in South Florida
Loan Solutions, one of the nations leading financial relief firms with a strong focus on loan modifications, has just completed its renovation and expansion to its new facility in Juno Beach, Florida. - August 31, 2010 - Loan Solutions
RMCN Employees Reach Out to MISD Students
Continuing a tradition of years past, RMCN Cares, a non-profit organization of RepairMyCreditNow.com's came through again for students of McKinney ISD by providing clothes and school supplies for students at Slaughter Elementary for the first day of school. Employees of RMCN Credit Services... - August 28, 2010 - RMCN Credit Services, Inc.
Total Mortgage Named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies: Included on the 2010 Inc. 5000 List
Ranked as #1 mortgage originator, #6 financial services company, and #48 across all industries in Connecticut. Ranked #2,815 nationally with a three-year growth rate of 79% - August 27, 2010 - Total Mortgage
Old Florida National Bank and Mercantile Capital Corporation Announce Merger Agreement
Old Florida National Bank and Mercantile Capital Corporation have entered into a merger agreement. Old Florida National Bank (Old Florida), headquartered in downtown Orlando, expects the merger to be finalized in the late fourth quarter or early first quarter of 2011. Randy Burden, chairman of Old... - August 27, 2010 - Mercantile Capital Corporation
TMS Funding Hires Two New Account Executives to Support Growth
TMS Funding, the wholesale residential lending platform of Total Mortgage Services, LLC, announced today the hiring of Robin Buttner and Stephen Jaser as Wholesale Account Executives. - August 24, 2010 - TMS Funding
Allen Brooks to Appear on "Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies" on August 20, 2010 at 9:00 A.m. ET
Allen Brooks, Managing Director of energy investment bank Parks Paton Hoepfl & Brown, will appear on "Tim Connolly’s Winning Strategies" www.winningstrategies.net on August 20, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. ET. Parks Paton Hoepfl & Brown is a Houston based independent investment banking... - August 19, 2010 - Corporate Strategies, LLC