Banking and Finance

Online foreclosure marketplace, RebuildUS, LLC welcomes the addition of Chet Pipkin to the company's board of advisors effective March 12, 2010. Mr. Pipkin is the founder and chairman of the board of Belkin International, Inc.

Neenah Paper, Inc. today announced it had completed the previously announced sale of its remaining 475,000 acres of timberlands in Nova Scotia for C$82.5 million to Northern Pulp Nova Scotia, through their affiliate, Northern Timber Nova Scotia. ...

Wells Fargo & Co. said today that as of Feb. 28, the company had 505,832 active trial and completed modifications through its own modification programs and the federal Home Affordable Modification Program. More than 365,000 of those were non-...

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of D and issuer credit rating of 'c' of Life of America Insurance Company . The outlook for both ratings is negative. Subsequently, A.M. Best has withdrawn the ratings and assigned an NR-4 to ...

Fitch Ratings affirms the 'F1' rating of La Fayette Asset Securitization, LLC's asset-backed commercial paper . As of Dec. 31, 2009, the program had no CP outstanding and no funded assets. Criteria described in 'Global Rating Criteria for Asset-...

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings for CMS Energy Co. and Consumers Energy Co. as follows:

Fitch Ratings affirms the 'F1' rating assigned to asset-backed commercial paper issued by Atlantic Asset Securitization, LLC . Criteria described in 'Global Rating Criteria for Asset-Backed Commercial Paper' and 'Global Structured Finance Rating ...

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ and issuer credit rating of 'bbb-' of Hanover Fire & Casualty Insurance Company . Concurrently, A.M. Best has withdrawn the ratings at the company's request and assigned a category ...