Year: 2025

HousingWireHousingWire State Farm Ventures, the investment arm of State Farm, has made a strategic investment in digital identity verification provider Proof. The capital infusion will reportedly go toward bolstering fraud prevention efforts and improving security in insurance and other industries. The investment aims to advance Proof’s technology to combat identity…

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HousingWireHousingWire This week on Power House, Diego Sanchez chats with Jay Plum, EVP of Consumer Lending at Fifth Third Bank. During the conversation, Plum explores Basel III’s impact on warehouse lending, the importance of affordability programs, and how Fifth Third plans to grow market share with mortgage servicing portfolios (MSRs)….

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As a nonprofit, your name and logo are more than just symbols — they represent your mission, values and the trust you’ve built with your community. But have you ever considered what would happen if someone else started using your name or logo without your permission? Matt Saunders, founding partner…

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HousingWireHousingWire Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) believe that newly appointed director Jonathan McKernan will lay off almost all of its roughly 1,700 staff in an effort to “carry out the closure of the agency.” In an exhibit filed Thursday as part of the National Treasury Employees Union’s…

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A snowboarder carves into the trails at the Bretton Woods Ski Area in an undated photo taken this winter. (Courtesy Ski New Hampshire) As Paula Kinney was driving down Berlin’s downtown recently, she was delighted to see a sight she hadn’t spotted often in the last couple of years: a…

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