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- Loan Modifications: BofA Gets Taken to Court
- Tom Lindmark submits: Here is a tale of what lies ahead for the mortgage and banking industries. The issue of litigation over the modification of loans is going to clog the courts for some time. Substantial damages could accrue to the lenders and the issue may well come to rival...
- External links 2008-12-05
- Fannie Mae Should Steer Clear of Renting Homes
- Tom Lindmark submits: Making the rounds is a proposal that the GSE’s will not evict renters from properties on which they foreclose. How do they intend to manage this process? This has disaster written all over it. Here are a few observations:The rental contract exists between the owner of the...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Alt-A Loans Spiraling Downward
- Tom Lindmark submits: I haul out this chart every couple months. It seems there is always something that makes it relevant again. Yesterday, it was a report from Fitch Ratings that says...
- External links 2008-12-16
- Valuing Assets: The Clueless Cadre
- Tom Lindmark submits: Value and whether or not any one has a handle on it is an idea that has been bouncing around in my head for about a month. Here are a couple of items that would indicate that everyone is guessing. AIG AIG announced that it sold Hartford...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Who Owns Chrysler's Headquarters?
- Tom Lindmark submits: This is another story I picked up in the Wall Street journal Wednesday. It involves, Chrysler, Cerberus, the city of Auburn Hills, Michigan, Citibank C and of course the U.S. taxpayer. In the grand scheme of things these days it is relatively puny in monetary terms but...
- External links 2008-12-25
- GMAC: Why the Bond-Exchange Silence?
- Tom Lindmark submits: Strangely, GMAC is not saying a word about the success or failure of its bond-exchange program. The offer to exchange debt for equity expired Friday night but the company has yet to say if it succeeded or failed. The offer is crucial to GMAC’s transformation into a...
- External links 2008-12-29
- Buyer for IndyMac (NYT) vs. Grim Outlook (HSBC) - Who's Wrong Here?
- Tom Lindmark submits: Two interesting developments. One quite positive and the other more than a little disconcerting. The NYT is reporting that a deal has been struck to buy IndyMac Bank. What makes it interesting is that the buyers are all either private equity or hedge funds. Even more...
- External links 2008-12-29
- The 'Exasperating' Banking Amendment Made by International Accounting
- Tom Lindmark submits: The post here spotlights a guy who is calling bank stocks a good buy. This post might convince you to never buy a single share of a bank ever again. We are going to be dealing with a couple acronyms so let’s get them out of the...
- External links 2008-12-30
- IndyMac: Blame Fannie Mae for Holding Up the Sale
- Tom Lindmark submits: This is pretty rich with irony. Fannie Mae FNM seems to be standing in the way of the FDIC’s sale of IndyMac (IDMCQ.PK) to a group of private investors. As reported by Housing Wire, Fannie presented the FDIC with a bill for $1 billion shortly after...
- External links 2008-12-31
- Mortgage Cramdowns: A Disaster in the Making
- Tom Lindmark submits: Does it strike anyone else as somewhat strange that so much time and effort was put into getting Citigroup C to be the lead dog on the cave in to bankruptcy mortgage cramdowns. I know that it’s not unusual for this sort of legislation to get hammered...
- External links 2009-01-09
- Citi: Off the Banking Reservation
- Tom Lindmark submits: Last night I put up a post about Citi C throwing in with the Congressional Democrats on mortgage cram-down legislation. I speculated that Citi was probably just doing its new masters’ bidding. Since then a couple of stories, both from Housing Wire, have come out that adds...
- External links 2009-01-10
- Will FHLB Need a Bailout Too?
- Tom Lindmark submits: Bloomberg reports that the Seattle Federal Home Loan Bank is suspending dividends and “excess stock” repurchases due to regulatory capital requirement issues. It joins the San Francisco FHLB in this predicament. Moody’s says big problems are possible and conservatorship or other action might be required. If...
- External links 2009-01-13
- Would You Buy Bank of America Common?
- Tom Lindmark submits: These guys either prove that their is no sentient life at the upper management levels of Bank of America BAC or have received the tip of the year from the federal government. BofA CEO Kenneth Lewis and several directors of the company bought 513,000 shares of...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Thain Climbs Out from Under Bus - and Pushes Lewis Under One
- Tom Lindmark submits: I’ll lose my blogger’s license if I don’t post something on the Thain counter attack. So here via Clusterstock is the text of the letter he sent to Merrill MER employees. Memo from John Thain by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-01-26
- Commercial Real Estate Debt: Another Inflection Point for the Financial Sector
- Tom Lindmark submits: If this one doesn’t send shivers down your spine then you have truly become immune to crises. Moody’s announced yesterday that they intend to commence a sweeping review of commercial mortgage backed securities. In case you’ve suppressed the memories, this is how the downward spiral with residential...
- External links 2009-02-06
- Fannie, Freddie and the Ballooning U.S. Balance Sheet
- Tom Lindmark submits: Remember when we were young and innocent and worried about mundane things such as what in the world would happen if Fannie FNM or Freddie FRE failed? We were assured that could never ever happen and of course if something went wrong it would all be worked...
- External links 2009-02-21
- Nationalization Makes Strange Bedfellows
- Tom Lindmark submits: Oh boy, do I hate writing this post. The AFL-CIO Executive Council is supposed to announce tomorrow its support for nationalizing problem banks. The NYT has a report: by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-03-04
- Another European Bank Problem: Good News for the Dollar and Inflation
- Tom Lindmark submits: I guess this is one of those good news/bad news stories. The Telegraph reported yesterday that European banks have built up a $2 trillion funding gap. The banks were basically borrowing in their local currencies to finance the acquisition of dollar assets. They have been able to...
- External links 2009-03-06
- The AIG Counterparty Argument: Nothing to Gain, A Lot to Lose
- Tom Lindmark submits: Yesterday I put up a post about AIG and the dust-up over divulging the names of its counterparties. The WSJ came out with the list and it seems to have everyone quite riled up. I said that I didn’t quite get why this was developing into a...
- External links 2009-03-07
- TALF Investors Pushing for a Better Deal
- Tom Lindmark submits: I wonder if we will get a look at these agreements. According to the WSJ, hedge funds aren’t exactly lining up around the block to participate in the first round of TALF financings. In fact, there appears to be more than a little concern about...
- External links 2009-03-13
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