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July 2011
Delaware, Mass. Investigate Mortgage Clearinghouse MERS
(Source: the Washington Post By Hayley Tsukayama) – Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems — the electronic database that is listed as the owner of millions of mortgages nationwide — said it is cooperating with a Delaware investigation of its business practices, [...]
Foreclosure Accord Liability Releases Draw Resistance From Three States
(Source: Bloomberg By David McLaughlin) – Three states conducting their own probes of residential mortgage practices are resisting broad liability releases sought by banks to settle a nationwide foreclosure investigation.
Mass AG Martha Coakley Will Not Join in Giving MERS and Banks a Deal
(Source: Huffington Business) – There are some rumblings that the Department of Justice is putting the pressure on state attorneys general to sign onto the controversial $20 billion mortgage settlement deal this week that could release banks from legal claims [...]
Return of 20% Home Down Payments Looms
BOSTON (Source: The Street By Joe Mont) – Hopeful homebuyers may soon need to shell out more money upfront before being approved for a mortgage.
Feds Accuse Bank of Targeting African Americans
LAS VEGAS (Source: 8NewsNow By Nathan Baca and Mark Mutchler) – The federal Justice Department is accusing Wells Fargo of illegally targeting African Americans with bad home mortgages. Now, a local attorney is launching a class-action lawsuit against the lender.
Debt Ceiling Battle Will Cost Homeowners Big Time
(Source: Fox News By Dan Gainor) – Left vs. right. Up vs. down. The debt ceiling battle has Americans unsure what direction the nation is headed. But lost somewhere betwixt and between are American homeowners, who may well lose no [...]
BBB Warns of Mortgage Scams
(Source: Fox 8 Live) – Foreclosures are on the rise in Louisiana and so are the number of scams targeting troubled homeowners. In the past month, at least a dozen consumers have contacted the FOX 8 Defenders reporting mortgage help [...]
New Jersey Woman Pleads Guilty in Student-Loan Scam
(Source: The Philly Inquirer By Darran Simon) – A 23-year-old woman admitted Thursday that she filed more than 90 fradulent student-loan applications seeking more $1.7 million. The Browns Mills resident, who had taken only a handful of college courses, received [...]
New Short Sale Law Helps Homeowners
(Source: KPSP Local 2) – It’s a major victory for California homeowners, who are underwater in their mortgages.
Hedging Against a 50% Market Drop
(Source: Seeking Alpha) – In an article earlier this week on TheStreet.com (“Hedge Against Market Risk With Default Servicers”), Glen Bradford considered the possibility of a 50% market decline:
Real Estate Firm Implodes Amid Allegations of Improprieties
(Source: Herald Tribune By Michael Braga) – A former Century 21 Advantage franchise in the region is shutting down amid allegations that its financially troubled broker has been using money from escrow accounts to pay agent commissions.
Home-Listing Websites Can Help, But Also Hurt
(Source: The Chicago Tribune by Al Heavens) – In the old days, if you were looking for a new place to live, you picked up the newspaper, looked at the real estate classifieds, put on comfortable shoes or gassed up [...]
The Coming Digital Real Estate Bust
(Source: The Motley Fool By Cindy Johnson) – Real estate. They’re not making any more of it. Demand is only increasing. Those arguments helped fuel an epic real estate boom and bust over the past decade — except when it [...]
Six Ways to Ditch Credit Card Debt
(Source: Fox Business By Dawn Papandrea) – Are you facing monstrous credit card balances? Unfortunately, there is no quick-fix solution to get out of debt, despite what solicitors or infomercials might have you believe.
For-Profit College Chain In Kentucky Accused Of Cheating Students Out Of Financial Aid
(Source: Huffington Post) – The Kentucky Attorney General filed suit Wednesday against a chain of for-profit colleges in the state, claiming that administrators at Daymar Colleges have consistently deceived students by making false promises about the ability to transfer course [...]
Choose Student Loans on Your Own Terms
(Source: Chicago Tribune Gail MarksJarvis) – As you are preparing to go to college this fall, you might be preoccupied with choosing a computer or shopping for sheets that fit a dormitory bed.
BofA, Goldman Sachs Find State Mortgage-Securities Cases Hard to Shake
(Source: Bloomberg By Karen Gullo) – Investors suing Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and more than a dozen other underwriters to force the buyback of $6.7 billion in downgraded mortgage securities have defeated efforts by the banks in pretrial skirmishes [...]
Bond Trading Weighs on Japan’s Big Banks
TOKYO (Source: The Wall Street Journal BY ATSUKO FUKASE) — A falloff in once-robust bond trading profits weighed on Japan’s top three banks in the April-June quarter with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. being the lone megabank to report net [...]
Raise Debt Ceiling, Banks Urge
WASHINGTON (Source: The Boston Globe By Phil Mattingly and Peter Cook) – Bankers including Goldman Sachs Group chairman and chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief Jamie Dimon called on President Obama and Congress to raise the [...]
5 Bank Stocks Ready to Rocket
NEW YORK (Source: TheStreet By Shanthi Bharatwaj) – Bank stocks continue to dig a deeper hole with every negative headline, but analysts feel investors may have hit bedrock.
Banks Win Big Over Madoff Trustee
(Source: New York Post By KAJA WHITEHOUSE) – It was a wild up-and-down day for Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee chasing Bernie Madoff assets.
Japan Banks, Brokerages Grapple With Weak Home Market
TOKYO, July 29 (Source: Reuters By Tim Kelly and Taiga Uranaka) – Lacklustre lending activity in Japan’s earthquake-ravaged economy and a shrinking retail investment business capped earnings of the country’s top banks and brokerages in the fiscal first quarter, raising [...]
U.S. Watchdog: Treasury Must do More on Mortgages
WASHINGTON -(Source: MarketWatch By Alan Zibel)- An independent federal watchdog on Thursday questioned whether the Obama administration has done enough to punish mortgage companies for poor performance in its main loan-assistance program.
Calls for Answers to Why AG Fired Attorneys Probing Mortgage Fraud
(Source: WCTV) – A Democratic state legislator joined the call Wednesday for information from Attorney General Pam Bondi on why she fired two assistant attorneys general who were heavily involved in investigating alleged mortgage fraud.
UBS Sued by U.S. Over $4.5 Billion in Mortgage Securities
(Source: Bloomberg By Bob Van Voris) – UBS AG (UBSN) was sued by the U.S. over $4.5 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as regulators went to court for the first time to recoup [...]
Facing Criticism, MERS Cuts Role in Foreclosures
(Source: Reuters By Scot J. Paltrow) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry that faces multiple investigations for its role in thousands of problematic foreclosure cases, changed its rules to lower its profile in court-supervised foreclosures.
BBB Busts Eden Prairie Loan Modification Scam
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (Source: by Karen Scullen / FOX 9 News) – Now that an Eden Prairie company offering home loan modifications has been busted by the Better Business Bureau, some Minnesotans are telling the alleged scammer to pay up [...]
Va. Beach Man Charged In Mortgage Rescue Fraud Case
(Source: By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot) – A Virginia Beach man who ran a mortgage rescue company has been indicted on charges of bilking customers out of millions of dollars.
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