Word: loaning
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...homeowner who has always made mortgage payments on time, perhaps by sacrificing spending elsewhere, the whole concept may seem grossly unfair. But society's problems are unfortunately often our own. As the foreclosure rate has skyrocketed, and loan defaults have rippled from subprime mortgages into ones made to prime and near-prime borrowers, property values in many parts of the country have been pounded. There is an unavoidable correction going on in house prices, that much is true, but the swoon has caused additional problems as it traps many flailing borrowers in their homes. Simply selling your home when...
...July, Congress tried to address the underlying problem by creating Hope for Homeowners. It's a program meant to get people behind on their payments to refinance into more affordable loans. So far, the effort has gone practically nowhere. While tens of thousands of homeowners have called to ask questions, the program has only received 451 applications and closed 25 loans. That's partly because of the program's high barriers - homeowners have to get their existing lenders to write down the value of what they're owed and then find a new lender to issue a fresh loan. Most...
...meantime, the discussion has turned to ways to encourage lenders and servicers to modify their own loans. Most, if not all, firms are already doing this, and some, such as JP Morgan Chase, have announced major new efforts, since it is generally in a lender's best interest to keep borrowers in their homes, even if they're paying less. Foreclosure is such a costly process, a lender might easily only recoup half of what it's owed. In August, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation instituted an aggressive loan-modification effort at the failed IndyMac Bank, and that program...
...prickly problem, though - as Dugan has pointed out - is that the available data from the OCC and OTS are rife with flaws. For instance, nowhere do servicers report what, exactly, they're doing when they modify a loan. And that, as it turns out, is an incredibly important detail since other data show that in many cases what they're doing is increasing a struggling borrower's monthly payment. The Maryland Office of Financial Regulation, which collects data on some 380,000 loans from 65 servicers, found that of modifications completed last August and September, 42% kept the monthly payment...
Rusfinance and Société Générale officials say they are working the crisis to their advantage and have increased the company's share of the auto-loan market. "We see this as an opportunity," says Lyudmila Bogushevskaya, director of Rusfinance's regional network department...