Very recently the unclean hands doctrine is being applied to borrowers in situations in which a lender's conduct concerning a real estate mortgage is challenged by the borrower.
These excessive private taxes or rents are costs on productive enterprise that can be as crippling as excessive public taxation. In American politi...
(Reuters) - The credit scores that consumers buy from credit reporting agencies sometimes differ from the scores lenders see when deciding the terms o...
SmartMoney: The truth behind the numbers that can determine your financial fate. 1. "You may never know your real score." Roughly 200 million...
LOS ANGELES -- National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered...
How rotten is the state of the U.S. housing market? A foreclosed home for every single person currently living in Denmark still wouldn't exceed the nu...
Temporary relief for a temporary situation; isn't that precisely what the loan modification is suppose to address?
As we compiled our list of the best credit cards for this year's Editor's Choice Awards, we saw something we haven't seen much of from lenders over the past few years. Hunger.
The European Union's executive will propose new rules for bank fees after failing to persuade the industry to make its charges more transparent, a...
Officials and big banks are working on a plan that would make refinancing available to some borrowers whose houses are worth less than their loans...
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.
Every bank has its own sweet spot for small-business loans and will look at your application somewhat differently. Find the right one and form a business relationship before applying.
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of homeowners who took out mortgages with Countrywide Financial Corp. will soon receive their slice of a $108 mill...
LOS ANGELES -- The number of homes taken back by lenders in the first half of this year fell 30 percent compared with the same 2010 period, the result...
The most distressing content most of us have ever seen on Facebook falls within the realm of the overshare: your boss's Vegas stag party pics, or your...
BRUSSELS (John O'Donnell) - European countries will support banks that fail stress tests if those lenders cannot raise capital from investors with...
NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo is hoping to make its student loans more attractive to families. The San Francisco-based bank says it is now offering...
Of all the foreclosure warnings issued during the housing crisis, perhaps oddest is the one demanding no money at all. Earlier this year, in North...
WASHINGTON (Dave Clarke) - Lenders would be required to make sure prospective borrowers have the ability to repay their mortgages before giving th...
Passion and a great idea are not enough to start a business. In my last two columns, I wrote that you must demonstrate enough predictable cash flow an...
Will homeowners see a penny of the reimbursements that the government has ordered 16 mortgage lenders to pay? Not likely, foreclosure victims and hous...
Both SBA and conventional lenders want to lien your home. In addition to securing your equity, lenders believe that you will work harder to make the business successful when your home is at risk.
In a report released today, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission found that "reckless" Wall Street firms, an abundance of cheap credit and "weak" f...
Stashed away in a draw somewhere on Capitol Hill is a simple piece of legislation that would have done much to stop the mortgage mess, robo-signing, unfair foreclosures, and the growing claims against lenders.
Last year, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication conducted a survey of American attitudes on climate change. In one question, it asked who ...
