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- VAR for Mortgage Backed Securities
- Value at Risk VaR is a mathematical approach for estimating the maximum potential loss of a given portfolio within some field of time with some likelihood of occurrence. Monte Carlo Simulation calculates the potential portfolio loss using market scenarios that were created from historic volatility and correlation estimates. As correlation...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- CMOs, Duration Risk and a New Mortgage
- This article presents an alternative mortgage that retains the fixed-rate feature of a fixed-rate mortgage FRM, but accelerates the principal amortization when interest rates rise, exposing the buyer to less duration risk in a rising interest rate environment. This mortgage, labeled the adjustable amortization mortgage AAM, is shown to have...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Limits of Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence From the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market
- "Limits of Arbitrage" theories require that the marginal investor in a particular asset market be a specialized arbitrageur. The paper examines the mortgage-backed securities market in this light, as casual empiricism suggests that investors in the MBS market do seem to be very specialized. It shows that risks that seem...
- White papers 2004-01-22
- Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
- This article provides insight into commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS. CMBS are bonds that have been collateralized by a pool of commercial real estate mortgages. All of the principal and interest from the mortgages flow to bondholders over the life of the bonds. Typically CMBS trusts range in size from...
- White papers 2004-10-26
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- Fidelity Investments and GMAC Mortgage Announce Innovative New Mortgage Program; Customers Can Receive Up To 100 Percent Mortgage Financing With No Cash Down Payment
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--March 23, 1999--Fidelity InvestmentsR, one of the nation's leading providers of financial services, and GMAC Mortgage Corporation, a leading national mortgage lender and servicer, today announced the Fidelity Pledged Asset Program. This innovative new mortgage financing program allows customers of Fidelity Brokerage Services, Inc. to use their assets as...
- Research articles 1999-03-23
- Hanley Economic Building Society, The: IT Infrastructure Upgrade Helps Financial Firm Improve Productivity, Customer Service
- The Hanley Economic Building Society, with 70 employees, is located in North Staffordshire, England, offers members mortgage and financial services and has assets worth more than รบ270 million (U.S. $485 million).The Hanley's existing IT infrastructure couldn't support its increasingly mobile workforce or meet the organization's growing needs for improved security,...
- Case studies
- Michael Burns has been hired as a mortgage loan officer for Arvest Bank's U.S. Highway 10 branch in Little Rock
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Burns has been hired as a mortgage loan officer for Arvest Bank's U.S. Highway 10 branch in Little Rock. Burns came to Arvest from First Security Bank and has been a mortgage lender for five years. Also, Keri Yarbrough has been hired as...
- Research articles 2008-11-24
- Homeloan Management Limited: Provider of Back-Office Processes to the Financial Services Industry Takes Control of a Growing Business
- Homeloan Management Limited is the UK's foremost provider of systems and process outsourcing solutions to the mortgage sector. HML needed a solution that could help it proactively diagnose issues with both its own and its customers' systems to ensure that service level agreements were met. The solution provided was a...
- Case studies
- Acquiring Commercial Property
- Buying a commercial property typically involves greater risks and a heavier financial commitment than renting, but it may be the only way to acquire the right location for your business. It will become an asset to your business, too, and one that should increase its equity. Before making the choice,...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- Business Objects Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Mohammed Moawalla with Goldman Sachs. Mohammed Moawalla – Goldman Sachs Yes good morning. John, can you elaborate a little bit around some of the weakness in the quarter and just indicate whether some of...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- Small Banks Fear Consumer Agency Will put Them in Deep Freeze
- Would the federal government's proposed Consumer Financial Products Agency hurt America's small banks by requiring them to offer "plain-vanilla" financial products? Community bankers fear that would limit their ability to provide the kinds of mortgage loans, credit cards and other offerings customers want and to differentiate themselves...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Webster Financial Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator instructions]. Okay, our first question comes from the line of Mark Fitzgibbon with Sandler O'Neill. Please proceed with your question. Mark Fitzgibbon - Sandler O'Neill & Partners Hi, good morning. Gentlemen, you guys have had a... some pretty bad luck with...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- Mix it up
- Most people love the convenience of one-stop shopping. But Security National Financial Corp. has taken that concept to an unexpected conclusion. The Salt Lake-based company will sell you life insurance to put your mind at ease about the future, and it offers mortgage products so you can have...
- Research articles 2004-01-11
- How to Switch Careers in a Recession
- Changing careers in the midst of an economic downturn is like parachuting from a damaged airplane: It?s too risky to consider ? unless staying on board is even riskier. Unfortunately, in many industries these days, that?s exactly the case. ...
- Articles 2009-05-21
- Responding to nervous customers
- Are customers asking you about the safety and soundness of your bank? The subprime mortgage problem and the recent failure of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns has created some public confusion about the security of the financial services industry. ABA has generated a series of papers--backgrounders, talking...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Republic Bancorp Trusts eLynx for Secure eDelivery Solution; eLynx's WPS Delivers Convenience, Speed, Security for Republic Bancorp Customers
- ORLANDO, Fla. -- Cincinnati-based eLynx Ltd., a leading provider of secure electronic information management solutions and services for the financial industry, announced from the 92nd Annual Mortgage Bankers Association Convention and Expo that Republic Bancorp Inc., Michigan's third largest bank holding company with $6.1 billion in assets, relies on eLynx's...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- The Fallacy of the Fallacy of Identity Theft
- Okay, sometimes bad ideas just slink away on their own, but a reckless, poorly researched Wall Street Journal column has attracted enough tweetness to keep the bad meme recirculating. As much as I fear the wrath of Wall Street Journalists, I simply can't let this go uncorrected. Earlier this week...
- News items 2009-10-16
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