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- Bank Lending Scheme Finds No Takers
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - A Bank of England scheme launched three months ago to lend short-term funds to non-investment grade companies has had no takers so far, despite concerns such companies are still finding it hard to access funds.The central bank said on Monday that its Secured Commercial Paper Facility...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Lending to Businesses Contracts Again
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The flow of lending to businesses contracted for an eighth consecutive month in September as firms continued to use funds raised on capital markets to pay down bank debt, the Bank of England said on Thursday.The central bank's "Trends in Lending" report also showed major banks...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Wallstrip: Microlending
- Microlending: tiny sums, small defaults and big karma? Ride the microwave!
- Videos 2008-08-27
- Jaime Katz: Rescuing Distressed Businesses
- Jamie Katz is the CEO of J. Edward Co, an international real estate and mortgage consulting firm that is helping businesses to succeed. With almost two-thirds of businesses failing within the first ten years, Katz helps people identify their business objectives and problems in order to find the solution that...
- Videos 2008-10-03
- How Canadian Banks Sidestepped the Financial Crisis
- A look at the still successful Canadian banking industry, which has prospered despite an ongoing worldwide economic crisis.
- Videos 2009-04-18
- Worst Case Banking Scenario
- Although the Federal Reserve will not release its bank stress test results for another 10 days, Anthony Mason reports data has already been released detailing how banks might react to a crisis.
- Videos 2009-04-24
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- Does The Community Reinvestment Act Influence Lending? An Analysis Of Changes In Bank Low-Income Mortgage Activity
- Article talks about the comparison of the lending behavior of banks experiencing a CRA downgrade to the lending behavior of several thousand banks that do not experience a downgrade. It is hypothesize that banks would respond to regulatory and public pressure exerted as a result of the downgrade by...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Why U.S. Banks Aren't Lending
- The Fed has released its latest quarterly Senior Loan Officer survey, which takes the pulse of bank lending around the country. It's an uneven, thready pulse: things are improving, but in spite of the TARP, TALF and the other programs that injected billions into the banking system, a significant proportion...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Industrial Structure of Affordable Mortgage Lending
- This article examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development–defined underserved areas affordable lending. It also examines how economic conditions and several aspects of the organizational structure of the mortgage industry, such as lender size...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Lending Council Releases 'A Credit To Their Members'
- Award winning consumer and mortgage lending case studies and "lifestyle lending" are featured in two new white papers from the CUNA Lending Council. "A Credit to Their Members: The 2005 Excellence in Lending Awards" spotlights the winners of the sixth annual Credit Union Excellence in Lending Awards. Sponsored by the...
- Research articles 2006-07-17
- MIT Lending moves into subprime market
- MIT LENDING, NEW YORK, THE WHOLEsale lending division of MortgageIT, New York, has launched a new subprime program offering called New Beginnings Lending. New Beginnings Lending offers a variety of subprime loan products. The program will be led by Steve Kaplan, senior vice president of MIT Lending and director...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Less Is More: Securities Lending Revisited
- Almost every institutional investor participates in a securities lending program, whether directly or indirectly. Although securities lending income typically constitutes no more than a few basis points at the total fund level, the dollar amount can be significant, and can often pay for a large portion of the expenses associated...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- FDIC issues policy on predatory lending
- The FDIC has issued its Supervisory Policy on Predatory Lending, which describes certain characteristics of predatory lending and reaffirms that such activities are inconsistent with safe and sound lending and undermine individual, family and community ecThe FDIC has issued its Supervisory Policy on Predatory Lending, which describes certain characteristics of...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Can't Get Credit? Try "Social Lending" From Family and Friends
- There may be plenty of credit out there, but the traditional lenders such as banks and credit cards companies are certainly making it hard to get it. So, one Massachusetts company is taking lending, literally, back to hearth and home, with the help of maverick venture capitalist Richard Branson. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- States Need Bigger Role in Halting Predatory Lending
- On January 7, 2004, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency quietly staged a coup against the U.S. states. The move poked a gaping hole in the laws shielding consumers from predatory banking practices, and also coincided with a historic boom in subprime lending. Now we're paying the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Multiple-Bank Lending: Diversification and Free-Riding in Monitoring
- This paper analyzes banks' choice between lending to firms individually and sharing lending with other banks, when firms and banks are subject to moral hazard and monitoring is essential. Multiple-bank lending is optimal whenever the benefit of greater diversification in terms of higher monitoring dominates the costs of free-riding and...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- BofA, Wachovia Cut Prime: Impact On Lending Unclear
- It's going to take more than a mere interest rate cut to raise the banking industry's comfort level. In reaction to an unprecedented interest-rate cut by six central banks throughout the world, major U.S.-based commercial banks today began lowering their prime lending rate, a benchmark that lenders typically charge their best...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Lending, insolvencies increasing.
- Byline: Bank of England states net lending now stands at AGBP1.32bn, while insolvencies have risen by 23 per cent this year lending Net lending to individuals rose AGBP10.8bn in March, a smaller increase than in the previous month, the Bank of England...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- Sponsored Report: Securities Lending - Choosing the right path to securities lending.
- Byline: Paul Wilson There are many reasons why institutions are attracted to securities lending, but those which decide to get involved will be faced with the same issues of managing risk, reinvesting collateral and how best to maximise the lending returns from their portfolios....
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Justice launches small-business lending probes.
- The U.S. Department of Justice, which to date has focused its fair-lending enforcement efforts on mortgage lending, has made it clear that small-business lending will be a major new fair-lending focus. Right now there is no source of data on business loan applications comparable to that...
- Research articles 1998-05-01
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