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| Report on Dangerous Private Student Loans Kansas City infoZine Washington, D.C. - infoZine - A new report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Education outlines the deceptive practices that have found their way from the mortgage industry to the private student loan ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Action Line: Law caps predatory lending to military personnel Tulsa World The Military Lending Act, enacted as part of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, has reduced some forms of abusive credit, but allows other equally harmful loans to flourish, according to a Consumer Federation of America study ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Company wants to use eminent domain to buy up underwater loans Pasadena Star-News Mortgage Resolution Partners' website says the power of eminent domain applies to "every kind of property, including real estate, tangible personal property (goods), and intangible personal property (loans and other contracts)." Who takes the hit? See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Short-term lenders could come to Maryland Delmarva Daily Times Consumers would become more vulnerable to what they call "abusive practices from small lenders that regularly hurt consumers with short-term, high-interest loans that can quickly become debt traps" if the bill passes, the coalition said. "The bill would do ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bad Credit Loans – Apply Through a New Loan Rate Comparison Service Virtual-Strategy Magazine A spokesperson for Badcredit-loans.net shared some details about the most recent information disseminated by the service. "One of the most important lessons that any discerning credit consumer can learn is the difference between some of the terminology ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Escalating suspicion Korea Times ... certificates of deposit (CD) rate-rigging scandal are spreading. Consumer groups are poised to lodge class-action lawsuits, saying many of the allegations revealed so far are suspicious enough to believe that banks and brokerage houses colluded to fix three-month CD rates. ... That is, the fall in market interest rates resulted in corporate lending rates declining, whereas the rate on household loans rose as the CD rate was used as a benchmark for them. In contrast, corporate loans are tied to bank debentures and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Graduates find loan forgiveness in small towns across country Bangor Daily News State and local governments are joining some private and nonprofit companies in capitalizing on graduates' concerns in a sluggish economy about repaying their student debt to attract new residents, talent and consumer dollars. Outstanding loans total about ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Saudi consumer stocks 'to benefit by Ramadan' Trade Arabia For banks, this is mainly due to the limited operating hours, less demand for loans and lower TASI activity. For the cement, construction and industrial sectors, this is due to the reduced construction activity during Ramadan given that employees will be fasting ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Slower global growth reflects close economic links Huffington Post The European Central Bank has made massive amounts of money available to Europe's banks at cheap rates to try to revive lending. But borrowing by many businesses and consumers remains weak because they are uncertain about future income. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| More Americans With Tainted Records Buying Homes Again Melodika.net (press release) Critics say that these loans are made to consumers with credit scores of 620 to 659, which have about a 15 percent failure rate; a high risk compared to loans made to people with 720 scores. They also caution that the requirement that borrowers taking ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bank failures in 4 states bring 2012 total to 38 Las Vegas Sun All of Second Federal's loans, including consumer loans and mortgages, will be retained by the FDIC for later sale. In addition, the FDIC and Community & Southern Bank agreed to share losses on $65.9 million of Georgia Trust Bank's loans and other assets, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rate cut: Homeowners save R4.6bn a year Fin24 Johannesburg – The importance of the 0.5 percentage point interest-rate reduction during the past week lies not only in the money put back into consumers' pockets, but also in the confidence that it creates that someone is prepared to do something about the lacklustre ... The total saving on home loans is rather small – about R4.6bn a year or around 0.15% of the gross domestic product (GDP) – and it won't make much that much of a difference to the economy, says Economists.co.za economist Mike Schüssler. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Two years of US financial reform paves way out of financial crisis Global Times The agency aims to protect consumers from confusing, and sometimes deceptive, financial products and lending practices like the ones in mortgage scandals, according to the Center for American Progress, a public policy research organization. Prior to its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Massachusetts's Coakley Rides War on Banks to Political Comeback OregonLive.com Nina Simon, litigation director of at the Center for Responsible Lending in Washington, a nonprofit group that fights predatory consumer lending, said Coakley has helped lead a small group of state attorneys general still seeking redress for homeowners ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Regulating Wall Street with a wish and a prayer The News Journal It allowed WaMu to loan out more than 50 percent of its subprime loans based solely on the borrower's statement of income. I could fill a year's worth of columns with other examples. Third, Wall Street banks have spent hundreds of millions of lobbying dollars ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alexander Cockburn, sharp-witted provocateur of the left, dies at 71 Washington Post Mr. Cockburn was an undisguised leftist who "defined the frontiers of candid progressive ideas," consumer advocate and former Green Party presidential nominee Ralph Nader said Saturday in an interview. "He was fearless." In the 1980s, Mr. Cockburn ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What Banks Can Learn From Google and Facebook msnbc.com Some companies will use Hadoop to discover changes in consumer behavior that will affect banks -- such as the trend during the last recession for homeowners to stop paying their mortgage while keeping other debt, such as car loans, current. How might ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| 2013 – The Return of the Subprime Mortgage? | Minnesota ... By Charles Dailey The new subprime, or should I say Higher Risk Consumer Loans (tee hee hee) will be loans that have a probability of default being higher than 20% over a two year period (default being 90+ days late, bankruptcy, charged off, gone to ... Minnesota Mortgage & Real Estate Digest | ||
| Peter Thomson Invests in Lending Club | FinSMEs By FinSMEs Peter Thomson, chairman of Thomvest, has made an investment of undisclosed amount in Broad-Based Consumer Credit Fund, a vehicle managed by LC Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lending Club, a San Francisco, CA-based ... FinSMEs |
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| Part-time Consumer Loan Underwriter Jobs in Pottstown ... Part-time Consumer Loan Underwriter - Find Banking Jobs at Diamond Credit Union in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job... | ||
| RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNIONS CONSUMER LOAN RATES CONSUMER LOAN RATES. RATES. New Auto & New Motorcycle Loans. (new is defined as current year, prior year leftovers & program cars as long as new car ... www.rivercu.com/wp.../Rate-Sheet-Effective-July-17-2012.pd... | ||
| Banks Will Expand Lending to Car Buyers with Damaged Credit - FICO However, underwriting for other types of consumer lending, particularly mortgages, is still tight. Lenders aren't yet ready to increase their exposure for the sake of ... www.fico.com/en/Company/News/Pages/07-10-2012.aspx | ||
| Lending Club Announces Additional Investment in LC Advisors ... As of July 1, 2012, the Broad-Based Consumer Credit Fund (Q) has invested in more than 16000 unique 36-month and 60-month consumer loans across ... www.lendingclub.com/.../lending-club-press-2012-07-19.actio... | ||
| TowerGroup™ Edge » US Student Loan Origination and Servicing ... Some large banks subsequently withdrew from student lending altogether and expanded lending for automobiles, credit cards, personal loans and payday ... towergroupedge.exbdblogs.com/.../us-student-loan-origination... | ||
| New Poll Shows Continued Broad Support for Financial Reforms and A July 2012 poll demonstrates very broad bipartisan support for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and other reforms in the Dodd-Frank Wall ... www.responsiblelending.org/.../new-poll-shows-continued.ht... | ||
| Consumer loans in 1Q up on demand for housing, auto credit ... By: InterAksyon.com. July 15, 2012 11:09 PM. InterAksyon.com. The online news portal of TV5. MANILA – Banks' consumer loans in the first quarter of this year ... loansautoinfo.com/.../consumer-loans-in-1q-up-on-demand-fo... | ||
| Basic Consumer Lending Basic Consumer Lending. A Two-part Webinar Series. As regulators have become more and more concerned about com- mercial real estate exposure in ... www.texasbankers.com/.../ed_4125_12sw1053basicconsumerl... |
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