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The FCT blog aims to answer your industry questions, examine current market trends and provide key information on the value of our products and services.
The FCT blog does not represent a single author or opinion. Instead, it represents the collective voice and experience of FCT’s dedicated niche experts.
Ask a title officer: volume 2
Aug 26th, 2015 | FCT
As a followup to our recent post: ; we offer you volume 2, which will examine additional questions asked of an FCT Title Officer via our online newsletter, Broker’s Edge. Here is…
Ask a title officer: volume 1
Aug 13th, 2015 | FCT
You may or may not know that FCT has recently launched a free bi-monthly e-newsletter called Broker’s Edge. Broker’s Edge provides timely content and handy tips to help brokers process refinances more…
Harnessing partnership to broker success
Jul 14th, 2015 | FCT
Today the broker segment represents over 30% of the mortgage industry and wields great influence regarding the acceptance of title insurance within the lending realm. Harnessing that partnership between lending and title…
Cleveland’s green plan: rehabbing a great city’s economy
Mar 25th, 2015 | FCT
Last time, we looked at how the tiny town of Sangudo, Alberta, staked its future on the business savvy of its own talent, investing through a co-op whose success has remade the…
Top real estate frauds of 2014 —The best of the worst
Mar 17th, 2015 | FCT
As is our custom during March — Fraud Prevention Month — we bring you the previous year’s top fraud stories. And once again there was no shortage of scams or victims to…
Title insurance — fraud protection and more
Mar 10th, 2015 | John Tracy
As a lender, when you make the decision to release funds, you need to know that your loan is well protected. Otherwise you and your organization could be at risk for losses…
How to protect against mortgage fraud
Mar 4th, 2015 | John Tracy
March is Fraud Prevention Month, and as such, our focus turns to this month-long education campaign aimed at addressing fraud within Canada. As one of the fastest growing crimes in North America,…
Danish negative mortgages: a cautionary tale
Feb 4th, 2015 | FCT
We all remember Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-glass, correct? What few recall, however, is that Lewis Carroll was actually by training a logician; a century before logician/computer innovator Alan…
The housing bubble: who’s on first?
Jan 28th, 2015 | FCT
Then there’s the story of the 102 year-old stockbroker, who, back in 2009, was asked by a reporter what he thought of the “biggest crash since the Depression.” The old guy smiled…
Tis’ the season…for debt
Jan 26th, 2015 | FCT
The role of a trustee in debt recovery. Now that the fun-filled hustle and bustle of the holidays is over, the cold hard reality of all those holiday bills settles in. The…
