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		<title>Loan-Score attracting new clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my years as a technology reporter covering the financial services industry,  I used a simple system to rank the news that came across my desk. New technologies picked up by top-10 institutions ranked high. New hires, company expansions and rants about why certain companies were left out of my most recent story were ranked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane HERA on the horizon for mortgage lenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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According to the federal government, The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 &#8220;strengthens and modernizes the regulation of the housing government-sponsored enterprises – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the enterprises) and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs or Banks) – and expands the housing mission of these GSEs. In addition, it creates a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can always get ink in your own publication</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the most important functions of a public relations firm is to get editors and their reporters to write stories about their client company executives, brands and products. We call this getting ink. This can become more difficult during an economic downturn, when publications, especially the Business-to-Business trade pubs, find fewer advertisers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qvault enters into coopetition agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forming alliances can be a good strategic move in any competitive environment, but it generally takes a down market to get competitors to come together to serve joint clients. That’s what Burlington, VT.-based Qvault announced earlier this month. The company, a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) products to mortgage and real estate professionals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. mortgage industry loses a brilliant writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that while I was enjoying friends and family over the Thanksgiving holiday, I missed the news of brilliant Calculated Risk blogger Tanta&#8217;s passing. We never met, but in my career I have interviewed enough people in the home finance industry to tell you that she knew her business extremely well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To survive in 2009, think like a bootstrapper</title>
		<link>http://www.rickgrant.net/wp01/2008/11/to-survive-in-2009-think-like-a-bootstrapper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy Kawasaki pointed to a blog post he had written on bootstrapping from his Twitter account today. Periodically, he releases some of his work in various places around the web, but I thoroughly enjoy Guy Kawaski&#8217;s blog, How to Change the World, which he refers to as a practical blog for impractical people. I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Cadence is staffing up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another firm acting against conventional wisdom is Denver-based Mortgage Cadence. The company has recently hired a new compliance director. Tim Counterman has over 15 years experience in data quality analysis, operational risk/control,  audit and compliance having worked with Wells Fargo, Chase  Manhattan Mortgage Corporation and others.
This comes on the heels of Mortgage Cadence’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microblogging success for Interthinx</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been saying for months now that companies just don&#8217;t have the budget to travel to industry conferences but still need access to the information being shared at these important functions. Attendance at conferences this year bears this out. But do people really care about the information shared at these events? Interthinx, Agoura Hills, Calif., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News breaking at Residential Underwriting conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems executives encounter while working through the trough portion of a business cycle is not that business is harder to find, but rather that fewer resources are available for use in finding it. The best companies keep working even when the business gets tough, but it can be very challenging pursuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can video bolster consumer confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.rickgrant.net/wp01/2008/10/can-video-bolster-consumer-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte, N.C.-based MindBlazer hopes to use video to ease consumers&#8217; concerns about the economy and earn some new business at the same time. The marketing technology company, which provides financial institutions with interactive videos, hopes to leverage its MoneyMinutesTV video program to inform  consumers about financial products and services, while helping banks and credit [...]]]></description>
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