McLEAN, Va. - (02/11/05) -- Long-term mortgage rates fell againthis week, for the sixth week in a row, with the average for the30-year loan slipping to its lowest since last April, according toFreddie Mac. The average for the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage fellto 5.57% this week, from 5.63% last week; while the average for the15-year, fixed-rate loan dipped to 5.10%, from 5.14%. The one-yearARM rate also declined to 4.11% this week, from 4.23%; while theaverage for five-year hybrid ARMs slipped slightly to 4.99%, from5%.
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JPMorganChase and Bank of America raised concerns about the proposed removal of risk-weighted assets from the denominator of the short-term wholesale funding component of the GSIB surcharge — changes backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly plans to send the recently passed housing bill to the White House on Monday, starting a 10-day clock for the president to sign the bill.
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The global payments platform, which recently expanded to the U.S., also plans to build new autonomous finance and agentic commerce products.
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A new lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that FirstBank Puerto Rico knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation by failing to enforce basic anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer rules.
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Pinnacle Financial Partners' headquarters is moving to a new 25-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta; New Jersey-based Provident Bank appoints Adriano Duarte to succeed Thomas Lyons as chief financial officer; Binance will shut down services for customers in France, Italy, Spain and Poland after the exchange withdrew its MiCA licence application in Greece; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The bank is part of a trend of financial institutions trying to streamline a complicated industry that paper has dominated for years.
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