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Surviving Subprime Lender Seeks Revamp WSJ.com

Springleaf Finance Inc., the subprime lender owned by Fortress Investment Group, has hired restructuring lawyers as its effort to resuscitate a once-hot market has yet to pay off.
Bernanke: Housing was trigger of crisis, not cause MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Subprime mortgages and the housing bubble were the trigger while high leverage, unstable funding and deficient risk management and supervision were the vulnerabilities that led to the financial crisis, Federal ...
Choices Shrink for Subprime Set WSJ.com

A shakeout in the storefront-loan business may make credit even tighter for millions of borrowers with less-than-stellar credit histories. Not long ago, their options were abundant, as seen at a Garden City, N.Y., shopping center where a ...
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Banks May Face Charges From SEC WSJ.com

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. have been told U.S. securities regulators may sue them in civil court over allegedly shoddy disclosures of the risks of subprime mortgage bonds tied to the ...
Boston Fed: Housing crisis wasn’t industry’s fault MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The cause of the housing crisis wasn’t the financial industry deceiving mortgage borrowers and investors but instead overly optimistic beliefs about house prices, according to a research paper released by the ...
No real estate bubble pop expected in Canada; Commentary: Canadian banks don’t behave like their U.S. counterparts MarketWatch

VANCOUVER, B.C. (MarketWatch) — Is there a housing bubble in Canada? It sometimes looks like it, judging by the eye-popping prices I saw being asked for condos in this city’s fashionable West End.
New York Fed Sells Off Last of Old AIG Mortgage Bonds WSJ Blogs

Demand for vintage subprime debt continues to rear its head. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that it just sold the last of its portfolio of mortgage bonds once owned by American International Group. A unit of Credit Suisse ...
Resona's Tortoise Global Banking Strategy WSJ Blogs

Japanese banks face a tricky problem: how to grow when the domestic market suffers from weak demand and a shrinking population? For most, the solution lies overseas. Japanese lenders, not known for their global footprint, are snapping up ...
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ResCap Nears Bankruptcy Filing WSJ.com

The board of Ally Financial Inc.'s ailing mortgage unit is expected to meet Sunday to authorize a bankruptcy filing, said people familiar with the situation.
China real-estate prices cooling, not crashing; Some (but not all) analysts say tales of doom look overdone MarketWatch

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — China may be succeeding in its two-year effort to cool the housing market without crashing it, as some experts see trends of an ongoing consolidation in house prices, but not a U.S.-style subprime accident.
Credit Where Credit Is Due WSJ Blogs

AT THE PEAK OF THE CREDIT CRISIS, in February 2009, we recommended the shares of subprime auto-lender Credit Acceptance (ticker: CACC), citing its highly-accurate 27-year model for predicting repayments. We followed up with recommendations ...
The Rewards of Pushing Housing off a Cliff Barrons.com

More than three years after their September 2008 government takeover, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are back in the news. Just last week, the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates the pair, ...
Court Tosses Argument Against UBS in 2008 CDO Suit WSJ Blogs

A New York appeals court tossed out on Tuesday a key argument in an early lawsuit related to the implosion of U.S. subprime-mortgage market.
Senators unhappy with Countrywide settlement; DOJ’s Perez: ‘No home runs’ in the work federal prosecutors do MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Senators on Wednesday criticized a recent $335 million settlement between the Justice Department and Bank of America Corp. over alleged discriminatory lending practices by the big bank’s Countrywide Financial ...
Polish perceptions fuel Warsaw exchange rise; Poland, on growth trajectory, revels in role as regional proxy MarketWatch

WARSAW (MarketWatch) — If Poland is a proxy for emerging European economies, it’s no wonder the Warsaw Stock Exchange sees itself as a symbol of the country’s economic transformation since the fall of communism more than two decades ago.

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