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Solium Capital Inc. Announces Acquisition of Computershare’s North American Employee Stock Option and Transcentive … Lastest Equity Capital News

Solium Capital Inc. Announces Acquisition of Computershare’s North American Employee Stock Option and Transcentive …  Lastest Equity Capital 	 News

Solium Capital Inc. Announces Acquisition of Computershare’s North American Employee Stock Option and Transcentive …
CALGARY, ALBERTA– – Solium Capital Inc. , a leading provider of equity-based incentive and savings plans administration services, is pleased to announce that it is acquiring the North American employee stock option and Transcentive…

More Cash for Clunkers

More Cash for Clunkers

From CNBC: Senate Reaches Deal on $2 Billion ‘Clunkers’ Refill The Senate reached a deal on saving the dwindling “cash for clunkers” program … that would add $2 billion to the popular rebate program … … The Toyota Corolla is the top-selling vehicle on the list, followed by the Ford…

WaPo: Good Bank, Bad Bank for Fannie and Freddie?

WaPo: Good Bank, Bad Bank for Fannie and Freddie?

From Zachary A. Goldfarb and David Cho at the WaPo: Administration Considers Splitting Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac The Obama administration launched a broad government effort this week to overhaul mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and is considering splitting the companies and putting their troubled assets in a new…

Investors ignored these foreclosure discounts

Investors ignored these foreclosure discounts

I previously blogged on investors buying eight properties at a June 26 foreclosure auction with seven of those averaging a 61% discount to the first mortgages on the properties. Well, I figured it might be interesting to take a look at the 14 properties investors would not touch. I…

Geoeconomics, in pictures

Geoeconomics, in pictures

This post is by Brad Setser and Paul Swartz of the Council on Foreign Relations. No doubt today’s GDP release will attract the lion’s share of the econoblogosphere’s attention. But sometimes it is a good idea to counter-program. Paul Swartz, I and others at the Council’s Center for Geoeconomic…

Mortgage Fraud in Florida

Mortgage Fraud in Florida

The Herald Tribune has a series of article on mortgage fraud in Florida (ht Ed) Here are the first three in the series: ‘Flip that house’ fraud cost billions Fraudulent property flipping ran rampant during this decade’s housing boom, with $10 billion in suspicious deals in Florida alone, a Herald-Tribune…

Buyers dominate foreclosure auction

Buyers dominate foreclosure auction

Buyers grabbed more than half the properties offered at a foreclosure auction in Santa Ana on Thursday, amid discounts as large as 70% off debt owed on the houses and condos. I visited another trustee’s sale at the Courthouse — and enjoyed meeting a reader there — on July…

Bank Failures #56 & #57: Temecula Valley Bank, Temecula, CA and Vineyard Bank, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Bank Failures #56 & #57: Temecula Valley Bank, Temecula, CA and Vineyard Bank, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

This makes four today. We’ve discussed these two before … Pitcher throws to home Failure swings…. to deep center A double this time. by Soylent Green is People From the FDIC : California Bank & Trust, San Diego, California, Assumes All of the Deposits of Vineyard Bank, National Association, Rancho…

Bank Failure #55: BankFirst, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Bank Failure #55: BankFirst, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Lets chug a lug, lug Two down, many to follow Quaff to banks gone bye. by Soylent Green is People From the FDIC : BankFirst, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was closed today by the South Dakota Division of Banking, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.…

States: More Record Unemployment Rates in June

States: More Record Unemployment Rates in June

Note: the BLS started keeping state records in 1976. From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Michigan again reported the highest jobless rate, 15.2 percent, in June. (The last state to have an unemployment rate of 15.0 percent or higher was West Virginia in March 1984.) The…