Lenders Put Borrowers Through the Wringer

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Lenders Want to Know Everything

As a home buyer or refinancer, you’d expect to submit recent pay stubs and bank-account statements when applying for a mortgage loan.

But a copy of your divorce decree?

That’s exactly what happened to a recent borrower who was asked to explain a deposit of about $200 to her bank account, says Frank Donnelly, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington.               More

Thunderbolt on Windows gets hands-on, lacks Mac’s hot-swapping

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Thunderbolt’s 10-gigabit interface is only just making its way to Windows after spending more than a year as a Mac-only feature, so it’s not surprising that a lot of questions surround how well the Apple- and Intel-developed connection works for those of a Microsoft persuasion. A thorough test at AnandTech of one of the first motherboards to support the spec on Windows PCs, an Ivy Bridge-ready board from MSI, has shown some positive signs along with a few flies in the high-speed ointment.            More