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NerdWallet: If you want to make life plans as a couple, work as a team to tackle debt

This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet.  Between financially helping his parents and losing income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Mazza landed into serious credit card debt. Relief came from a source he wasn’t expecting: …

Credit Counseling Courses and Financial Management Courses : Indiana (IN) USA

Financial Management Instructional Courses /Debtor Education Agencies Name,  Website , Courses Offered & Languages Supported  Debtor Education Agencies   address 1st Choice Credit Counseling & Financial Education a/k/a DBSM, Inc.         Website – www.mybknow.com :      Financial Management Instructional Courses (Debtor …

Soft Money Loans Are The Future of Lending

Hard Money Loans Soft Money: What Is It? The Future of Lending is Soft Money By Stratton Equities A soft money loan combines the advantages of a hard money loan with the greater security that a standard loan …

Payments provider Affirm to sunset crypto program after 19% staff cut

Users will not be able to buy Bitcoin after Mar. 2, and the “Affirm Crypto Program” will officially shut down on Mar. 31. Max Levchin, the CEO of buy-now-pay-later company Affirm, has confirmed that they will be shutting …

Mortgage rates rise on inflation concerns

Borrowers are adjusting to higher mortgage rates By Anna Bahney, CNN Mortgage rates rose this week after four weeks of declines, as a stronger-than-expected jobs report suggested the Federal Reserve would continue hiking its benchmark lending rate in …

The new, must-have technology that’s tackling lending’s greatest challenges 

Introducing the borrower intelligence platform Bringing world-class data intelligence to mortgage Two of the biggest problems in lending — solved When mass-market loan origination systems emerged on the scene in the early 1990s, they revolutionized the mortgage workplace …

7 Out-Dated Meme Stocks to Sell Before It’s Too late

AMC Entertainment (AMC) Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Carvana (CVNA) GameStop (GME) Peloton Interactive (PTON) Robinhood Markets (HOOD) Silvergate Capital (SI) Experienced investors should review their portfolios for meme stocks to sell. January’s market rebound brought back buying …

Illinois Provides a Perfect Case Study on How Rate Caps Hurt Americans

  By Alex Milliken, NTU    The data is back on Illinois 2021 legislation that mandated a lending rate cap, and the troubling results should act as a cautionary tale in what not to do. Lending rate caps cut off …

New York Finalizes Commercial Lending Disclosure Regulations

Takeways As the regulatory scrutiny facing commercial finance providers continues to increase, many have been closely monitoring developments in state-level disclosure requirements. The New York Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL), which was originally enacted in 2020, stands out …

Banks plan to boost agri lending this year — survey

A farmer works at a rice field in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, March 27, 2018. — REUTERS MAJORITY OF PHILIPPINE banks are planning to ramp up lending to the agriculture sector in the next 12 months, a joint …