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In a strategic pivot, the Providence-based banking giant will stop accepting new wholesale mortgage submissions. Citizens Bank will exit the wholesale channel beginning in December. The Providence, Rhode Island-based bank notified its mortgage partners that it would no longer be accepted after Dec. 6. However, it will continue servicing existing mortgages through the channel and its correspondent lending operations would not be affected by the decision. The bank cited ongoing industry challenges, as well as a broader strategic shift, as reasons behind its exit. Citizens Bank was the 10th-largest mortgage lender by loan count in 2022. Third-party originations at Citizens...

A banker for Paul Manafort was robbed overnight of an iPad, a briefcase, and some sneakers at his Manhattan penthouse, according to a report. David Fallarino, who works at Citizens Bank, told authorities he left his terrace door open before he went to sleep Monday, NBC affiliate News 4 reported. He heard a noise around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday and found a crow bar on the terrace. Fallarino said his wine cabinet had been opened, and there was a bottle of wine on the floor. No other items were reported missing. Fallarino did not testify at Manafort’s trial earlier this month....

It's every parent's nightmare, but true: Major U.S. corporations are funding a campaign of sophisticated, psychologically intrusive "gay" indoctrination programs targeting very young children in elementary schools across America. It’s part of a very well-planned and well-funded effort to reach children as young as possible without their parents’ intervention. The national program, called “Welcoming Schools”, skillfully works on the minds of young children in three ways: (1) Introducing the concept of homosexuality to children. (2) Telling them that homosexuality is normal and natural. (3) Telling them that their parents or friends who portray homosexuality in a less than positive way...

KINGSTON, Ontario, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A Canadian retiree, angry because his credit card payments are processed south of the border, got even by paying his bill a few pennies at a time. Don Rogers of Kingston, Ontario, also hopes that his massive credit card statement will land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. He paid the bill on line in a total of 985 separate payments. What set Rogers off is the idea of his credit card statements being available to U.S. authorities under the Patriot Act. "Us retired guys are the most dangerous, because we have...