Philadelphia Business

February 22, 2024

Dive into a Healthier Spring: The Philadelphia Protestant Home (PPH) Offers Free Trial of Wellness & Aquatics Center

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Philadelphia Protestant Home (PPH), a fun, diverse and uniquely urban senior living community in Philadelphia, is excited to announce a special promotional offer for its Wellness & Aquatics Center program. During the month of March 2024, new participants 62 and older can enjoy a free trial of the program, letting people experience all of the benefits of both aquatic and traditional exercise while also enjoying a sense of community among peers….

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February 13, 2024

Agile Selected as 2024 HousingWire Tech100 Winner for the Third Consecutive Year

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker-dealers onto a single electronic platform, is excited to announce Agile Trading Technologies was selected for the 3rd consecutive year as a winner of the HousingWire Tech100 Award. The list is comprised of the most innovative technology companies in the housing market and provides housing professionals a look into the most impactful organizations that can be leveraged to identify partners and solutions….

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November 17, 2023

Baird Joins Agile’s Growing Broker-Dealer Network

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker-dealers onto a single electronic platform, is excited to announce that Baird, an international financial services firm, has joined Agile’s broker-dealer network….

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October 26, 2023

HilltopSecurities Joins Agile’s Growing Broker-Dealer Network

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker-dealers onto a single electronic platform, is excited to announce that HilltopSecurities, a full-service investment bank and wealth advisory firm, has joined Agile’s broker-dealer network….

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October 13, 2023

MEDIA ADVISORY: Original ‘Shark Tank’ shark comes to MBA Annual

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Kevin Harrington of “Shark Tank” fame will host a meet-and-greet with attending mortgage professionals and trade press before taking the stage during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Annual Convention & Expo to introduce Passport®, FormFree’s portable financial ID for consumers launching October 20, and the FormFree Exchange (FFX®), the online marketplace where lenders compete for the business of Passport users….

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April 21, 2023

NPA Names Kozlowski, Meissner as 2023 Winners of Annual Awards

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) today announced that Lisa Kozlowski, Ph.D., and Christian Meissner, Ph.D., are the 2023 winners of two of the most prestigious awards in the national postdoctoral scholar community….

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December 13, 2022

Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. Joins Agile’s Growing Broker-Dealer Network

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker-dealers onto a single electronic platform, today announced that Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. (MBS), a veteran-owned, fixed-income securities broker-dealer, has joined Agile’s broker-dealer network. The addition of MBS gives lenders on Agile’s growing network expanded access to competitive trades and simpler trade reconciliation across Agile’s electronic RFQ platform….

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November 17, 2022

Southstate|Duncanwilliams Securities Corp Joins Agile’s Broker-Dealer Network

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker-dealers onto a single electronic platform, today announced that SouthState|DuncanWilliams Securities Corp., a FINRA-regulated wholly owned subsidiary of SouthState Bank, N.A, has joined Agile’s broker-dealer network. SouthState|DuncanWilliams Securities Corp. has been conducting TBA trades with better efficiency to execute at competitive pricing via Agile as of August 2022….

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May 11, 2022

Agile Launches Agile Chat for Lenders and Broker Dealers

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Agile, a groundbreaking fintech bringing mortgage lenders and broker dealers onto a single electronic platform, today announced the launch of Agile Chat, a new chat feature designed to increase transparency and efficiency between lenders and broker dealers….

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February 10, 2022

Thelma Wright, Philadelphia’s Beloved ‘American Gangster’ Empowers a New Generation with Mentoring and Reform

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — It has been well over a decade since Thelma Wright, once reputed to be one of the most dangerous and powerful Black women in Philadelphia, came to the forefront and shocked the nation with true confessions in her memoir, “With Eyes From Both Sides – Living My Live In and Out of the Game.” Today however, Thelma Wright is impacting her city and the tri-state area in positive ways with her mentoring program, The Thelma Wright Empowerment Program….

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