Lending Crisis

Banks' Hoarding At ECB Hits Record, Signaling Lending Fears Still Loom

Reuters | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Lending Crisis, European Debt Crisis, Video, Europe Crisis, Eurozone Crisis, Reuters, Business News, Euro Crisis, European Central Bank, Euro, Business News

FRANKFURT, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Commercial banks' overnight deposits at the European Central Bank hit a new record high of 453 billion euros, data show...

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Is Our Destiny Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

Tom Gerdy | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Small Businesses, Blue Collar Workers, Bankruptcy, Lending Crisis, Building Trades, Small Business America, Wealth Inequality, Unemployment, It's a Wonderful Life, u.s. Wealth Inequality, Wealth Gap, Inequality, Business News

Small businesses have always been the backbone of the economy in America. The current leaders seem to have forgotten this piece of our economic puzzle.

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Unrequited Loan: Banks Just Can't Seem to Commit...

Ron Gitter | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Condos, Financing, Homebuyers, Lenders, Co-Ops, New York News

Thousands of residential co-op and condo loans close each day, but many of those loans have taken a great deal of time and effort to complete.

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Gone Baby Gone: Can a Dying Deal Be Saved?

Ron Gitter | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: New York Co-Ops, Lending Crisis, Fannie Mae, Consumers, New York Condos, Bank Lending, NY Real Estate, Real Estate, Bank Loans, New York News

As the struggling recovery inches along, many of us on the ground know residential real estate's dirty little secret: getting to the closing table has become increasingly more difficult.

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Customers Close Accounts To Protest Wall Street, Abusive Lending Practices

Center for Public Integrity | Ben Hallman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Move Your Money, Banks, Center for Public Integrity, Bailout Bandits, Lending Crisis, Wall Street, Business News

The death blow for Michael Dalrymple's Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the na...

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U.S. Small Businesses Turn To Microlenders For Funding

washingtonpost.com | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Latino Economic Development Corp, Bank Lending, Lending, Economy, Microlending, Rob Vickers, Financial Crisis, Microlenders, Underwriting, Recession, Business News

When Ryan Fochler couldn't get a bank loan to start his dog-walking business, Ylan Q. Mui writes, he tried a less conventional source for start-up fun...

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Banks expand small-business loans

AP | RACHEL BECK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, JPMorgan Chase, Small Business, Bank Lending, Lending, Jpmorgan, Wells Fargo, Economy, Small Business Lending, Business News

NEW YORK — Banks know what the public wants to hear: They're lending money to the little guys. JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s new ad campaign publicizes ...

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FDIC: Bank Lending Tumbles 7.5 Percent In 2009

washingtonpost.com | Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Loans, Lending Crisis, Fdic, Bank Lending, Economy, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Small Business Lending, Business News

Lending by the banking industry fell by $587 billion, or 7.5 percent, in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940s, the Federal Deposit Insuran...

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Fed: Fewer Banks Imposed New Restrictions On Loans Last Quarter

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Lending Crisis, Lending, Bank Lending, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate Loans, Federal Reserve, Business News

WASHINGTON — Fewer banks are erecting new hurdles for people and businesses to get loans, a fresh sign credit problems are easing. In a quarter...

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Mortgage Lenders Making Record Profits, Consumers Suffer

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Lenders, Mortgage Crisis, Lending Crisis, Mortgages, Mortgage Bankers Association, Consumers Union, Bailout Bandits, Bailout, Guy Cecala, Inside Mortgage Finance, Financial Crisis, Banks, Consumers, Business News

Never ones to let an opportunity go unexploited, mortgage lenders are taking advantage of a market fueled by low interest rates and massive government...

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Bankrupt Firms Claim Billions in U.S. Stimulus

ABC News | Tom Hals | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Bank Lending, Credit Crunch, Washington Mutual, Downey Financial, Business News

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The U.S. government has provided more than $1 trillion of support to financial companies in a bid to keep credit flow...

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Are Bank Executives Really Stuck in the Fog?

Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Banks, Wall Street, Bailout, Barack Obama, President Obama, Lending Crisis, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Politics News

Common sense should have told these gentlemen that when the President of the United States summons you to the White House, you check the weather ahead of time and plan accordingly.

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Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

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Brokering the Bailout

John O'Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Recovery, Bailout, Mortgage Crisis, Banks, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Home Loans, Recession, Politics News

Bailing out big banks has hardly contributed to a climate conducive to free markets and competition. On the contrary, it has allowed institutions already too big to fail to gobble up other banks.

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Real Change: Turning Up the Heat on Non-Bank Lenders

Elizabeth Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Regulation, Banks, Subprime Mortgages, Non-Bank Lenders, Lending, Elizabeth Warren, Cfpa, Business News

The big banks are storming Washington, determined to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But there is an even bigger change in the wind: regulating the non-banks.

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Local Credit Unions Vs. Big Banks: Can You Get A Loan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hank Paulson, Lending Crisis, Timothy Gueithner, Local Banks, Tarp, Bank Loan, Business News

If one could reduce the point of all the massive government planning and intervention and bailouts down to a single pressing need, it's this: we must ...

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Smaller Cities Avoid Consumer Lending Crunch

Wall Street Journal | DAN FITZPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Lending Small Cities, Small Cities Lending, Credit Crisis, Midsize Cities Credit Crunch, Credit Crunch Midsize Cities, Huntsville-Alabama, Business News

Consumer-lending activity has increased in numerous midsize cities in the U.S., a sign they are riding out the recession better than big cities and ru...

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Christina Romer Gets it Wrong: "We Need Banks to Lend Like Crazy"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Financial Crisis, Bank Lending, Economic Policy, John King, Barack Obama, Christina Romer, Lending Crisis, Lending, Christina Romer Lending, 100 Days, Obama Administration, Obama Economy, Politics News

"Lending like crazy" is exactly what helped trigger the global financial crisis -- and reflating those trends would be a major mistake if that is what the Obama administration is pushing.

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Citibank Will Boost Lending By $36.5 Billion

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Availability, Lending Crisis, Credit Crunch, Credit Crisis, Lending Standards, Credit Markets Tight, Citibank Lending, Citibank, Bailout Outrage, Business News

NEW YORK — Citigroup, under pressure to increase its lending, says it will spend $36.5 billion to issue mortgages, make credit card loans and bu...

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Lending is Contracting -- As Well It Should

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Lending Crisis, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Lending, Business News

There is a rather ridiculous line of thought going on regarding the banking industry: if you receive TARP funds then lending is supposed to increase.

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It seems to me that if the seller and buyer are in agreement on all terms, then the mechanics of the closing should never delay the manifestation of the parties' desire and intent, i.e. money for deed.

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Treasury to Promote Homeownership? Not so fast

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lending Crisis, Banks, Homeowners, Government Bailout, Subprime Loans, Economy, Treasury Secretary, Business News

A version of this entry was posted on the DMI blog. It's remarkable how the Bush Administration keeps missing the mark on the mortgage and foreclosur...

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Short Selling Rules Expire Today

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, Sec, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Financials, Fannie Mae, Short Selling Ban, Banking Crisis, Lending Crisis, Short Selling, Shorting Ban, Shorting, Business News

Last month, the SEC imposed a temporary rule that requires investors to borrow stock before executing a short sale in 19 major Wall Street firms such ...

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Credit Unions Lose Money On Paper: "Nobody Is Insulated From This"

Wall Street Journal | Mark Maremont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Constitution Corporate Federal Credit Union, Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union, Economy, Members United Corporate Federal Credit Union, U.S. Central Federal Credit Union, Western Corporate Federal Credit Union, Credit Union Stability, Credit Union Run, Lending Crisis, Credit Unions, Business News

Credit unions are not-for-profit, member-owned cooperatives that take deposits and lend money like banks. The mortgage problems are focused on so-call...

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Fannie Mae Loses $2.3 Billion, Slashes Dividend

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fannie Mae Losses, Fannie Mae, Housing Crisis, Fannie Mae Dividend, Lending Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON - Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae says it swung to a second-quarter loss that was more than triple what Wall Street expected as the hou...

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