Nelnet Reports $3.5 Billion, or 28%, Student Loan Asset Growth; Record Consolidation Loan Activity (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Nelnet, Inc. today reported base net income for the first six months of 2005 of $62.5 million, or $1.16 per share, compared with $96.4 million, or $1.80 per share, in the first six months of 2004.
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:00:00 GMT

Collegiate Funding Services, Inc. Closes Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities Offering (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Collegiate Funding Services, Inc. today announced that it has closed an offering of $1.3 billion in floating rate Student Loan Asset-Backed Notes.
Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT

(AFX UK Focus) 2005-07-27 09:34 GMT: HVB sees annual loan loss provisions at 1.3 bln eur for several years UPDATE (Interactive Investor)
(updating with assets, consolidation effect of IMB, CFO comments on Real Estate Restructuring unit, CEO comment on progress in takeover by Unicredito) MUNICH (AFX) – HVB Group is planning to maintain full year loan loss provisions at about 1.3 bln eur for several years, said chief financial officer Wolfgang Sprissler.
Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:00:51 GMT

Student Loan Changes Could Help and Hurt (KTSM)
House Education Committee wants to make a few changes, but some UTEP students do not like what they hear. The House Education Committee voted last week to increase the interest rate for fixed rate student loan consolidation.
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:50:09 GMT

(AFX UK Focus) 2005-07-25 15:12 GMT: London shares – midafternoon features (Interactive Investor)
FTSE 100 risers Reckitt Benckiser 1713 up 48 Upbeat interims, ups buyback and hikes dividend; W de Broe upgrades BAT 1075 up 27 Morgan Stanley reiterates 'overweight, ups target to 1150 pence BP 639 up 13 Q2 tomorrow, Lehman ups crude forecast to 50 usd/bbl and upgrades sector Pearson 680 up 12 Reassuring interims Reed Elsevier 538 up 8 With Pearson Capita Group 357-1/4 up 5-1/4 Upgraded to 'buy'
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:45:26 GMT

Opportunity Knocks By Wendy Toth (Finance Technology Network)
For Lou Balicki, vice president of information systems for North Hollywood, Calif.-based Century National Insurance, good things come to those who wait.
Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:14:10 GMT

Scottrade: Not The Marrying Kind (BusinessWeek)
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Publ.Date : Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:28:32 GMT

Lex live: BBVA (Financial Times)
“Win-win” situations don’t exist in financial theory.
Publ.Date : Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:22 GMT

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Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:35:09 GMT

Student loan provider SLM profits drop (Centre Daily Times)
RESTON, Va. – SLM Corp., the largest U.S. student loan provider that was formerly known as Sallie Mae, said Wednesday its second-quarter profit was sliced in half after suffering some $106 million of losses from derivative and hedging activities.
Publ.Date : Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:16:24 GMT

Loans Connection Launches Secured Personal Loan Service (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
(PRWEB) July 21, 2005—Loans Connection ( http://www.loansconnection.co.uk ) can now assist homeowners with secured personal loans and second charge loans. A secured loan is any personal loan that requires the borrower to provide the lender with some form of security. In the case of secured loans, the security will be the borrower's property, regardless of whether it is mortgaged or owned
Publ.Date : Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT

KBW Keeps Italian Banks Underweight (New Ratings)
0925 GMT [Dow Jones]—Keefe, Bruyette & Woods keeps Italian banks underweight due to expensive valuations and high risk of earnings downgrades. Says lower valuations are needed to trigger further domestic consolidation.
Publ.Date : Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:06:28 GMT

Student loan provider SLM profits drop (Centre Daily Times)
RESTON, Va. – SLM Corp., the largest U.S. student loan provider that was formerly known as Sallie Mae, said Wednesday its second-quarter profit was sliced in half after suffering some $106 million of losses from derivative and hedging activities.
Publ.Date : Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:16:24 GMT

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Publ.Date : Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:38:08 GMT