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Nationwide foreclosures are down both monthly and annually, but mortgage loan delinquencies are up month-over-month in August, according to the Black Knight Financial Services Mortgage Monitor released earlier in the week.

RedVision, an independent, nationwide provider of real property title data, search examination, and curative-ready solutions, has appointed Leanne Zinn-Cox as EVP of sales and marketing, the company recently announced.

Two Hutchens Law Firm partners were recently listed in the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

President Barack Obama "commended" financial regulators for progress made since the Dodd-Frank Act became law in 2010 at a meeting on Monday between the president, top financial regulators, and top White House officials in the Roosevelt Room, the White House announced.

Two Colorado men were sentenced to federal prison time and ordered to pay more than $1 million each in restitution for their roles in scheme to defraud a Colorado bank that was a recipient of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds, the Special Inspector General for TARP (SIGTARP), Christy Romero, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado John Walsh announced recently.

Many housing and mortgage industry professionals believe that the overall outlook for their business in the next six months is "grim," according to the Collingwood Group Mortgage Industry Outlook Report.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Monday a 60-day extension for the commenting period for proposed rule to revise membership requirements for Federal Home Loan Banks back in September.

As a broad measure of the market, the Fed's index includes a number of indicators that go beyond just the national unemployment rate, including average hourly earnings, hiring rates, and labor force participation, among others.

Despite having the third highest number of completed foreclosures of any state for the 12-month period ending August 31, 2014, Texas still had the 10th lowest foreclosure inventory percentage of any state for the month of August, according to CoreLogic.

Meg Burns, former senior associate director for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has signed on to the Washington, D.C.-based Collingwood Group as managing director, the company announced.