| Mar 5, 2012 1:32PM HOPE NOW , the voluntary foreclosure prevention program put together by a private sector group of mortgage servicers, investors, mortgage insurers, and non-profit counselors, is continuing its outreach efforts with a special emphasis on reaching military families in 2012. HOPE NOW has held three outreach events, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tampa, and Miami so far this year. Four military bases have been identified for special events during the first half of 2012 with the first one scheduled in... Mar 5, 2012 9:36AM n the interesting side, per the FDIC, there were no new banks created in the US in 2011, making it the first year since at least 1984 that the country has gone without the establishment of a single start-up lender. The Financial Times reports that none of the three new banking charters reported by the US FDIC for 2011 were de novos. That is compared with three de novo banks reported in 2010. (A de novo bank is a freshly chartered bank that has not been created through the takeover of an existing...
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