originator
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It now also houses mortgage originator PrimeLending and an investment bank called Hilltop Securities, controlling about $15 billion in total assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Soboroff asked the mayor if he’d met the originator of the phrase.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
She’s married to the originator of the ideology in question, and so her stance is clear.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2024
Police said they could not find evidence that Farhan Asif was the originator of the news and so were not continuing with the case.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
He was, in fact, the originator of the Babalu jeer, Hey, Babalu, who did you eat today?
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Specifically, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two massive government-sponsored mortgage buyers, are updating the credit-score models used for the loans they’ll accept from originators who lend to home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
The Wellermen were the originators of the sea shanty trend on TikTok, with their versions of Misty Mountain, Nancy Mulligan and Hoist the Colours racking up billions of views.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
Servicing relationships enable those originators to be more effective in the pursuit of refinancing their own customers, giving them additional data and speeding the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“We think we have the opportunity, and we deserve the opportunity, to be one of the biggest purchase mortgage originators in the country,” Hofmann told Barron’s in an interview.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
It was easy to understand why originators like Option One and New Century preferred to make these sorts of loans: After two years the borrowers either defaulted or, if their home price had risen, refinanced.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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