Bendigo Bank of Australia First-Half Profit Rises 36% (Update3) - 2004-02-15
Bendigo Bank Ltd., a regional Australian lender, announced first-half earnings increased 36 percent as lending approvals, mostly for mortgages, surged by almost half.

Net income increased to A$34.6 million ($27.3 million), or 26.8 cents a share, in the half ended Dec. 31, from A$25.4 million, or 20.3 cents, a year earlier, the Bendigo, Victoria- based lender said in a statement.
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Loan Portfolio Valuation Solution Released - 2004-02-15
Insightful, a developer of software solutions for the analysis of numeric and text data, has released a loan portfolio valuation solution that provides commercial banks, loan originators and the secondary loan portfolio markets with a dedicated analytic solution for enhancing the ease, accuracy and speed of scoring and assigning valuations to portfolios of loan products.

The mortgage market is the largest of the US debt markets with a total amount outstanding of over $5.2 trillion.
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