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Quantarium, an artificial intelligence company founded by a team of leading scientists, has a unique origin story that truly sets the company apart from other fintech providers.

Nomura Securities International will pay a fine of $25 million after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused several of the company’s former mortgage bond traders of lying to customers about the nature of the trades. According to the SEC, several Nomura RMBS and CMBS traders made “false and misleading statements” to customers while negotiating the sales of those bonds.

Mortgage applications fell 1.1% from last week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 17, 2019. Despite this decrease, on an unadjusted basis, the Index increased a whopping 24% from the previous week.

Two weeks into his new gig as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Donald Layton, who was the CEO of Freddie Mac until the end of June, is speaking out – in favor of utility-style regulation of the GSEs. He also states the mortgage giants were “lazy competitors” before the 2008 government seizure.

Thanks in large part to interest rates that have fallen throughout much of the year, it appears that the mortgage business had quite a solid second quarter, at least at some of the nation’s largest lenders.

Although homebuilder confidence inched forward one point to 65 in July, many builders still report rising construction costs as a major cause of concern, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz said while the current low mortgage interest rate environment should be getting more buyers off the sidelines, they remain hesitant due to affordability concerns.

For nearly six months, the ongoing debate over buyer broker compensation has loomed large over the real estate industry, with two lawsuits taking the practice to task. Now, a third lawsuit has been filed that touches on the issue. This time, it’s a class-action suit against Realogy alleging that investors purchased securities at inflated prices because of the brokerage’s failure to disclose “anticompetitive” behavior.