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Bank Systems & Technology December 30, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
As Defaults Mount, Many Question FICO Scores' Value FICO scores did nothing to prevent the subprime crisis, so what use are they? |
Bank Technology News June 2007 Michael Sisk |
America's Great Divide About 73 million people in the U.S. are unbanked or underbanked, a marketplace that is as diverse as it is unknown. Banks will find a bevy of new risk tools to help reach out to this emerging credit market. |
U.S. Banker October 2001 Paul Muolo |
Subprime Hot Potato Subprime lending certainly has become a hot potato. While offering potentially high profits, it also carries with it a two-pronged threat. First, losses may mushroom if the economy takes a dive, as many expect. And these loans haven't been stress-tested... |
FDIC FYI September 17, 2003 Susan Burhouse |
Evaluating the Consumer Lending Revolution Consumer balance sheets have become stretched by large amounts of new consumer and mortgage debt. This rapid increase in consumer spending and borrowing raises important questions about the sustainability of current debt loads and the vulnerability of the consumer sector to economic shocks. |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Justin Hibbard |
The Fed Eyes Subprime Loans Battles over lending to low-income, often minority, home buyers used to be about access to credit. Now they're about access to affordable credit. If new lending data hints at unfair pricing, lenders may have to take a good, hard look at their methods. |
U.S. Banker November 2008 Clark Abrahams |
Reverse Reengineering of Risk As the recent mortgage crisis has exposed, the science of risk scoring needs some tweaking. |
FDIC FYI February 7, 2002 |
Subprime Mortgage Lending Faces the Test of a Slowing Economy Entry by FDIC-insured institutions into subprime lending as a targeted line of business was largely a phenomenon of the 1990s. These lending programs are now being tested by recession, in most cases for the first time... |
OCC Bulletin January 31, 2001 |
Subprime Lending While the OCC believes that responsible subprime lending can expand credit access for consumers and offer attractive returns for bankers, during recent years institutions engaged in subprime programs have represented a disproportionate number of problem institutions... |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Robert A. Bennett |
Gramlich's Words of Warning His suggested caution on subprime mortgage lending should be taken seriously... |
The Motley Fool December 10, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The New Subprime Lender Please meet the FHA. |
U.S. Banker August 2001 Ted Cornwell |
Fears of Defaults Subprime loans are behind the fears. They have not been tested in a declining economy and analysts don't know what to expect. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Will Credit Score Changes Hurt You? If you thought you understood how your credit score works, think again. The rules are changing. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Falling Into the Subprime Trap If any good comes from the bursting of the housing bubble, it will be that homeowners and borrowers may act more responsibly about buying property and taking on mortgage debt. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Not Too Early for Lenders to Regroup and Think Ahead Yes, lenders must clean up the mess left by the credit crunch. But, after all, for every down cycle, there's a recovery, too, and they will want to make sure they're ready with the right strategies and technology for the next upswing in the market. |
U.S. Banker November 2007 Frank McKenna |
For Mortgage Lenders, Taking the Profitability Road Now is the time for the mortgage industry to focus on rebuilding profitability. |
Bank Systems & Technology February 21, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Banks Scrutinize Lending Technology and Underwriting Practices Following the Credit Crisis With so many lending technology solutions at their disposal, how was it that bankers and other industry participants did not foresee the gloom to come? |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad |
Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction. |
Bank Technology News February 2009 Rebecca Sausner |
Model Play Adapts To Changing Game Institutions are leveraging analytics, reweighted models and decision optimization technology to maximize retention, enhance portfolio management and minimize losses. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd |
Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt. |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
A Tale of Two Borrowers Unfortunately, many homeowners never consider that they may not really be able to afford the home they own. As painful as it is to give up your home, it's not worth risking financial ruin to stay in a home you can't pay for. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 1, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Lenders Focus on Customer Relationships Lenders are challenged to find ways to grow revenue in a more risk-averse climate. As always, technology is playing a key role in their efforts to adapt to the new market conditions. |
U.S. Banker January 2002 |
Self-Cleansing Imagine what it must be like working in subprime lending, dealing all the time with financially desperate people. Well, Bank of America is well on its way toward washing its hands of this dirty business, reducing its risk and raising its ethical standards... |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Sham Gad |
What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess. |
Bank Systems & Technology September 20, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Sub-Prime Lending Mess Not Technology's Fault Experts say technology and good decision-making go together in avoiding loan risk. |
Bank Technology News January 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward The subprime mess has exposed how fragile banks are today to market pressures, and how much can fall on the shoulders of risk officers. Finding a path forward from the ashes will require stronger leadership overseeing risk. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein |
Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2005 David FitzMaurice |
Providian Picks Itself Up Earnings statement reveals the consumer lender is on the right track. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 23, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Fannie, Freddie Troubles May Have Been Avoided If Technology Was Used Properly As observers watch cash-strapped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being propped up by the government, many wonder how technology failed to save the agencies and the lenders supplying mortgages to them from being left holding the bag on so many bad loans. |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Have Banks Learned Nothing? When the subprime crisis first struck, Wall Street wondered whether it would spread to prime lenders such as Washington Mutual and Bank of America. Many investors appear to believe that it will. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Emil Lee |
BB&T Battles Yield Curve The regional bank posts flat results due to net interest margin pressure. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2007 Nick Kapur |
Market Buzz: Opportunities in Subprime Lenders Why some in the subprime market may be better off than you think. However, as with the mortgage industry, it can get you into some pretty hairy situations. But the profits are there for those who can see through the panic. |
FDIC FYI January 29, 2003 |
Payday Lending Some insured depository institutions have failed to properly assess and control the risks associated with their payday lending programs. The consequences of deficiencies in risk management practices for payday lending programs can be severe. |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Tougher Credit Days Ahead The subprime-lending crisis may affect us non-subprime folks, too. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
U.S. Banker September 2008 Tambor & Cortez |
The Perils Of Crisis Mode Risk exposure is now racing through the home equity lending industry, leaving a far different landscape for institutions to navigate. As home prices fall and delinquencies soar, lenders are scurrying into defense mode. |
Bank Systems & Technology February 25, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
FICO Score Back In Lenders' Risk Management Arsenal Fair Isaac will introduce its latest version, FICO 08, which is designed to be more sensitive in scoring individuals. |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Emil Lee |
Fool on the Street: Capital One's Crystal Ball Capital One explains why the subprime mess has not spilled over into other consumer lending areas. Investors should take note. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Refinancing Catch-22 Mortgage refinancing is available ... for those who need it least. |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Subprime Symptoms Starting to Spread? It seems that subprime mortgage difficulties have already started to spread. There will almost certainly be a more protracted softness for housing than we might have anticipated as recently as the final quarter of last year. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Avoid the Loan Sharks For those with less-than-perfect credit histories, there's a scary trend in personal finance these days. In the name of convenience, some borrowers are digging themselves into a hole from which they may never emerge. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 30, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Enter FICO 08: The Next-Gen Credit Score The FICO score, named for Fair Isaac & Co., its Minneapolis-based creator, is so much the standard among credit scores that FICO's imitators have been nicknamed Fakos. |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 John Rosevear |
Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history. |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
HBC Makes a Courtesy Flush All of those subprime loans from the last few years are getting ready to wreak havoc. How this story continues to play out for HSBC and other banks will be very interesting to watch. Investors, take note. |
U.S. Banker January 2008 Michael Sisk |
The Rise of Lending Communities Peer-to-peer lending holds valuable clues to the nature of lending and borrowing. |
U.S. Banker January 2008 Michael Sisk |
Keeping The Spigot Open The fact is not lost on banks that American consumers are, by and large, still employed and paying their bills. Credit is, and will be, still available. |
U.S. Banker February 2008 Glen Fest |
Risk Without Reward Finding a path forward from the ashes of the subprime mess will require stronger leadership overseeing risk, a culture more respectful of interdependent risks and new technologies measuring them across the enterprise. |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Here Come the Mortgage Regulators With subprime lending continuing to plummet, House and Senate hearings run the risk of further retarding a recovery in housing. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 26, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Lending Tech Vendor Space to See Realignment As lenders find themselves in the throes of the credit crunch, the ill effects are trickling down to the lending technology vendors, ushering in a realignment in the space. |
Bank Technology News November 2007 John Adams |
Mortgage: How to get "More" accurate with Loans The mortgage tumult has made lenders renew their focus on firmly understanding the true creditworthiness of their leads. |
Finance & Development September 8, 2008 Andreas Jobst |
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