Word: nonbanker
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...stock market stormed up Thursday on good earnings news from the bank sector, but there was bad news on another front that could undermine the surge. The second round of the Federal Reserve's attempt to restart the nonbank consumer-lending market, the so-called TALF program, went even worse than the faltering first round did last month. The poor performance is causing some Fed officials to doubt the entire premise of the effort to restart nonbank credit markets. "We know there are people out there interested in putting subscriptions together," says a Fed official, "but the larger question...
...TALF program (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility), funded with up to $200 billion, was created to provide liquidity to the market for securitized nonbank consumer loans. The prospective buyers of such securities would be hedge funds and investment firms...
...last possibility may be the most worrying - that there has been a fundamental shift in the appetite for nonbank securitized loans, which previously represented some 40% of U.S. consumer lending. "The Fed and Treasury have said we're prepared to lend up to $200 billion for small business, auto, student and other kinds of loans, but what is the market for them?" says the Fed official. "You still have to figure out what the demand is at this point, because of the state of the economy and whether people are comfortable doing these [securitized nonbank loans...
...latter approach, so far putting $216 billion of the TARP hoard into capital injections. On Wednesday, Paulson said that Treasury has concluded that, for the moment at least, buying illiquid mortgage securities "is not the most effective way to use TARP funds." Instead, Treasury will look to help nonbank lenders involved with credit cards, auto loans and other forms of consumer finance...
...Less obvious is the support the dollar is getting from an unlikely quarter: global hedge funds and other nonbank financial entities. This shadow banking system has borrowed trillions of dollars to leverage its investments. But the crisis has triggered massive early loan repayments, and because these loans must be repaid in the U.S. currency, demand for the dollar has increased, driving up its value. It's not just hedge funds that are affected. Foreign banks, which hold $12 trillion in dollar assets and liabilities, are also in the process of deleveraging...