Word: loaning
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...That's why on Feb. 2, a group of 15 state attorneys general and banking regulators sent a letter to the OCC and OTS complaining that its data was muddying the public debate and begging for details about the modifications it tracks. "People are concerned about the effectiveness of loan modifications, which is very troubling to us," says Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, who has been dealing with servicers as head of the 17-month-old State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group. "If they're bad modifications and people default at a higher rate, it's not surprising. But that shouldn...
...reason servicers haven't more wholeheartedly adopted bolder tactics is lingering concern over getting sued by investors who are ultimately entitled to the loan payments through mortgage-related securities. Servicers are contractually bound to act in the interest of investors overall, but they might still not rewrite loans, even when that creates the most value in the aggregate, since modifications can impact certain investors more than others - and it only takes one to sue. That's why on Feb. 4. the House Financial Services committee met to talk about making a law to shield servicers from such lawsuits...
...even such a law combined with financial incentives for modification won't guarantee that servicers will do what it takes to avoid foreclosure in the long run. Over the past few months, as loan defaults have continued to rise, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation has noticed an increase in servicers crafting modifications with lower monthly payments. That's a good sign - unless, perhaps, those lower payments come with a balloon payment further down the road, as White has often noticed in the loans he's studied...
...benefit of) a Senior Executive Officer made upon severance from employment that exceeds specified thresholds. Under EESA [The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act], such compensation is limited to three times the executive's annual base salary ... Haircut: Difference in the value of the collateral and the value of the loan (the loan value is less than the collateral value...
...particularly troubling TARP program called Term Asset-Backed Loan Facility that lets companies borrow money using asset-backed securities as collateral: "Treasury should consider requiring that some baseline fraud prevention standards be imposed (such as minimum underwriting standards or some other combination of provisions that will minimize the risk of fraud...