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Bowman Welcomes David Stickles, RPLS, PSM, PLS, to Expand Company’s Public Sector Geospatial Portfolio

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Based out of Bowman’s Plano, TX office, he will focus on securing government and public sector contracts across Bowman’s 90+ locations throughout the United States.

Key Points: 
  • Based out of Bowman’s Plano, TX office, he will focus on securing government and public sector contracts across Bowman’s 90+ locations throughout the United States.
  • “My goal is to build upon Bowman’s reputation to secure its position as a leading service provider in the public sector,” said Stickles.
  • The recent Surdex acquisition adds a service that makes Bowman unique in its ability to provide comprehensive end-to-end solutions at all altitudes and resolutions.
  • “David's appointment holds strategic significance in enhancing Bowman’s reputation as a top-tier geospatial services provider,” said Aaron McMillan, vice president of geospatial at Bowman.

RBC iShares Launches Three New Bond ETFs on Cboe Canada

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Cboe Canada Inc. (“Cboe Canada”) is pleased to welcome RBC iShares as they launch three new ETF series of existing RBC Fixed Income Pools today.

Key Points: 
  • Cboe Canada Inc. (“Cboe Canada”) is pleased to welcome RBC iShares as they launch three new ETF series of existing RBC Fixed Income Pools today.
  • The ETFs are now listed and trading on Cboe Canada under the symbols RCOR , RPLS , and RCNS , respectively, and are managed by RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (“RBC GAM”).
  • “We’re incredibly excited to expand our collaboration with RBC iShares as they advance the Canadian ETF landscape and provide investors with finely tuned investment solutions.”
    RBC iShares’ three new bond funds join nine other RBC ETFs already listed on Cboe Canada.
  • RBC iShares ETFs are comprised of RBC ETFs and ETF Series of RBC Funds managed by RBC Global Asset Management Inc. and iShares ETFs managed by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited ("BlackRock Canada").

Freddie Mac Prices Approximately $230 Million SLST Securitization

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today the pricing of the second Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction Trust (SLST) offering of 2022 -- a securitization of approximately $230 million including both guaranteed senior and non-guaranteed subordinate securities backed by a pool of seasoned residential mortgage loans.

Key Points: 
  • MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today the pricing of the second Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction Trust (SLST) offering of 2022 -- a securitization of approximately $230 million including both guaranteed senior and non-guaranteed subordinate securities backed by a pool of seasoned residential mortgage loans.
  • Freddie Mac SLST Series 2022-2 includes approximately $201 million in guaranteed senior certificates and approximately $29 million in non-guaranteed subordinate certificates.
  • Additional information about the company's seasoned loan offerings can be found at:
    This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities.
  • Freddie Mac undertakes no obligation, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information in those documents.

Freddie Mac Prices Approximately $536 Million Securitization of Re-Performing Loans

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Friday, September 9, 2022

Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2022-2 includes approximately $492 million in guaranteed senior certificates and $45 million in non-guaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.

Key Points: 
  • Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2022-2 includes approximately $492 million in guaranteed senior certificates and $45 million in non-guaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.
  • Additional information about the company's seasoned loan offerings can be found at:
    This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities.
  • Freddie Mac undertakes no obligation, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information in those documents.
  • Freddie Mac makes home possible for millions of families and individuals by providing mortgage capital to lenders.

The HFW Companies and Texas-based 4Ward Land Surveying Create Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Growth

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The HFW Companies, a fast-growing professional services firm with a national focus on the architecture and engineering (AE) industry, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with 4Ward Land Surveying, a professional land surveying company providing services for commercial, residential, and public works projects throughout Texas.

Key Points: 
  • The HFW Companies, a fast-growing professional services firm with a national focus on the architecture and engineering (AE) industry, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with 4Ward Land Surveying, a professional land surveying company providing services for commercial, residential, and public works projects throughout Texas.
  • The new partnership allows 4Ward to accelerate its strategic growth plan and expand its geographic reach beyond Texas with additional services, locations, and people, according to Jason Ward, RPLS, president of 4Ward.
  • Our partnership with HFW gives us the boost we need to achieve our plan faster and with greater opportunity for our hard-working team.
  • For more information about HFW Companies, 4Ward, or the new partnership, contact Michael Hein at 618.560.4756 or Jason Ward at 512-537-2384.

RiskSpan Introduces Proprietary Measure for Plotting Burnout Effect on Prepays, Adds RPL/NPL Forecasting

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Burnout Metrics MBS traders and investors can now look up a proprietary, cumulative burnout metric that quantifies the extent to which a defined pool of mortgages has continued to pay coupons above refinance rates over time.

Key Points: 
  • Burnout Metrics MBS traders and investors can now look up a proprietary, cumulative burnout metric that quantifies the extent to which a defined pool of mortgages has continued to pay coupons above refinance rates over time.
  • The metric goes beyond simple comparisons of note rates to historic prevailing rates by also tracking the number of times borrowers have ignored the "media effect" of repeatedly seeing rates reach record lows.
  • Edge users can plot empirical prepay speeds as a function of burnout to help project performance of pools with various degrees of burnout.
  • A virtual walk-through of this functionality is available here .

Freddie Mac Prices Approximately $1.0 Billion Securitization of Re-Performing Loans

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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2022-1 includes approximately $958 million in guaranteed senior certificates and $86 million in unguaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.

Key Points: 
  • Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2022-1 includes approximately $958 million in guaranteed senior certificates and $86 million in unguaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.
  • To date, Freddie Mac has sold over $9.7 billion of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) and securitized more than $74 billion of RPLs consisting of $30 billion of fully guaranteed PCs, $33 billion of SCRT senior/sub securities, and over $11 billion of Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction (SLST) securities.
  • Additional information about the company's seasoned loan offerings can be found at:
    This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities.
  • Freddie Mac undertakes no obligation, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information in those documents.

WESTWOOD ACQUIRES TEXAS-BASED PACHECO KOCH

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westwood Professional Services, Inc. ("Westwood"), a national multi-discipline, engineering firm, announced today that it has acquired Texas-based Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers, LLC ("Pacheco Koch").

Key Points: 
  • MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Westwood Professional Services, Inc. ("Westwood"), a national multi-discipline, engineering firm, announced today that it has acquired Texas-based Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers, LLC ("Pacheco Koch").
  • Pacheco Koch has received several awards for being a Best Place to Work, and Founder, Mark A. Pacheco, PE, RPLS , takes pride in the team he and his Founding partner, James A. Koch, Jr., PE, RPLS have built.
  • Having started his career with Pacheco Koch, Pogue has great respect for both Mark Pacheco and Jim Koch and the business they built.
  • Pacheco Koch will operate as, Pacheco Koch, a Westwood company, for 12-24 months and continue to serve clients from their current locations .

Thomas Ruschkewicz, RPLS, PLS to lead geomatics growth for McKim & Creed

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- McKim & Creed, one of the largest engineering and surveying firms in the U.S., today announced that Thomas (Tom) Ruschkewicz, RPLS, PLS has joined the firm as senior vice presidentof geomatics.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- McKim & Creed, one of the largest engineering and surveying firms in the U.S., today announced that Thomas (Tom) Ruschkewicz, RPLS, PLS has joined the firm as senior vice presidentof geomatics.
  • In this role, he will oversee the firm's geomatics business in Texas and Florida as well as overall growth throughout McKim & Creed's footprint.
  • He will be based in McKim & Creed's Austin, Texas office.
  • Tom's role with McKim & Creed will be to leverage the amazing growth potential in Texas and Florida, complement our existing operations-heavy skill set, and help us achieve our companywide strategic plan," said McKim & Creed CEO and Board Chair John Lucey, PE.

Freddie Mac Prices Approximately $564 Million Securitization of Re-Performing Loans

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2021-3 includes approximately $522 million in guaranteed senior certificates and approximately $42 million in unguaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.

Key Points: 
  • Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2021-3 includes approximately $522 million in guaranteed senior certificates and approximately $42 million in unguaranteed mezzanine and subordinate certificates.
  • Additional information about the company's seasoned loan offerings can be found at:
    This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities.
  • Freddie Mac undertakes no obligation, and disclaims any duty, to update any of the information in those documents.
  • Freddie Mac makes home possible for millions of families and individuals by providing mortgage capital to lenders.