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The Motley Fool
January 24, 2005
David FitzMaurice |
Providian Picks Itself Up Earnings statement reveals the consumer lender is on the right track.   |
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... |
U.S. Banker
December 2001 |
Genius Fails, or Was It Panic? The geniuses at Providian Financial thought they had it all figured out. Life to them could be deciphered with a slide rule. They thought they could figure out patterns and determine how groups of people would behave. It worked brilliantly -- for a while... |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2004
Dayana Yochim |
Providian Starts Caring The lender to the unlucky sheds its bottom-feeder image with a new credit card perk. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
Henry & Goldstein |
The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2004
Bill Mann |
Barclays Rejects Providian British banking giant Barclays has cut off its acquisition talks with U.S. credit card company Providian Financial. The big British bank didn't like the purchase price, or Providian's balance sheet. |
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
June 6, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
WaMu's Plastic Play By buying Providian, Washington Mutual has added a credit card business to its retail banking. This move could bump up profitability and growth. Top that off with a pretty good dividend yield, and maybe WaMu becomes a little more attractive to investors again. |
U.S. Banker
April 2007
Holly Sraeel |
Tough Lessons for the Subprime Market...Again That New Century finds itself in this predicament should come as no surprise. The burning question? When will the other shoe(s) drop, and how painful will that be for the industry and investors? |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
Joseph Weber |
A New Headache For The Credit-Card Biz Credit-card outfits can't just fight among themselves anymore. Now they can add home-equity lenders to the list of rivals that are finding gold in America's growing mountain of consumer debt. |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Mara Der Hovanesian et al. |
Making Sense Of The Mortgage Mess The economy should be able to withstand the downdraft in the mortgage market. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 30, 2003
Vivian Wagner |
LendingTree Gets Smart, Buys Competitor Online lender grabs GetSmart.com from Providian. |
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... |
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
February 9, 2004
Bill Mann |
Holding Providian's Playbook An industry expert had the company pegged as looking for a suitor. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Putnam Just Says "No" Providian shareholder Putnam Investments put out a press release indicating its displeasure with the proposed Washington Mutual purchase of Providian. But even with a "no" vote, an activist role is unlikely from the mutual fund. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2008
Donald Jay Korn |
Seeing Red Sallie Mae, the leading lender to college students, reported a $1.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2007. Sallie Mae isn't the only student lender that has been bloodied recently. Students and parents need to be cautious when looking for student loans. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Washington Mutual Tries to Get Some Credit Buying credit card company Providian was a good move. But it's not good enough. A big part of the problem here is the flattening of the yield curve. Investors, take note. |
FDIC FYI
June 3, 2002 |
Favorable Interest-Rate Environment Drives Record First-Quarter Bank Earnings Commercial banks earned a record $21.7 billion in the first quarter of 2002, besting the previous quarterly earnings record set in the first quarter of 2001 by 9.6 percent. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2004
Bill Mann |
Providian's Quality Control The credit card company finds deadbeat payers not so appealing these days. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
David Fairlamb |
Bargain-Sniffing In The States European banks are once again shopping aggressively for American acquisitions. |
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. |
