| Enhances Content and Revenue Model of Marquee Personal Finance and ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InterSearch Group, Inc. (AMEX: IGO), a leading operator of industry specific destination portals and provider of Internet search services announced today that it has rolled out the enhanced edition of its marquee personal finance online property, www.Banks.com. Banks.com is an online consumer finance marketplace aggregating information on a broad range of products and fees including: mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, college financing, debt management, retirement, and more. The online property now also features a wealth of resources and advice on personal finance topics in a convenient user format. Banks.com generates revenues through a hybrid model combining pay-per-click and affiliate arrangements with advertisers and paid search. "We acquired Banks.com in September 2006 to create a preeminent online consumer banking one-stop marketplace built around a domain name that is synonymous with that offering.
MORTGAGE DEMAND MAY BE SLOWING - BBA
Total sterling lending to the UK private sector showed a net underlying increase of 9.5bn (+0.7%) to 1,297bn. This compares with an underlying rise of 20.7bn in January and an average of 12.6bn over the previous six months. Net mortgage lending rose by an underlying 5.2bn. This was lower than both the increase of 5.4bn last month and the monthly average of 5.7bn over the previous six months. Unsecured personal lending fell by 0.2bn in February, compared with a fall of 0.3bn in January. Loans & overdrafts accounted for all of the fall, with credit card borrowing unchanged. There was a strong lending increase to real estate companies (+1.9bn) and lending to construction rose by 0.3bn, although there were decreases in lending to cold water supply companies (-0.3bn), wholesale & retail trade (-0.3bn) and agriculture & fishing (-0.2bn).
OTS Proposes Expanding Permissible Activities Of Savings And Loan ...
OTS Proposes Expanding Permissible Activities of Savings and Loan Holding Companies The OTS proposed amending its regulations to expand the permissible activities of savings and loan holding companies not eligible for the grandfathered authority provided by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 ("SLHCs"). .
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