Not exact matches
Back in 2010 it paid $ 550 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it mislead investors
into buying a so - called synthetic collateralized
debt obligation named Abacus, which was made up of a bundle of financial instruments tied to
subprime mortgage bonds, many of which plummeted in value shortly after the deal was sold.
«Predatory
subprime auto lending takes advantage of vulnerable New Yorkers in every corner of our state and often drives people with bad credit further
into debt.
«University administrators are the equivalent of
subprime mortgage brokers,» he says, «selling you a story that you should go
into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision.
Examples pertinent to this crisis included: the adjustable - rate mortgage; the bundling of
subprime mortgages
into mortgage - backed securities (MBS) or collateralized
debt obligations (CDO) for sale to investors, a type of securitization; and a form of credit insurance called credit default swaps (CDS).
When it's all said and done, it is quite possible those investing in low - risk ABCP or some sort of money market fund may end up taking a worse beating than those who went
into CDOs and
subprime debt.
Agitation over the
subprime residential mortgage debacle bled
into the commercial real estate
debt markets this summer, effectively strangling liquidity.
A 10 percent increase in student loan
debt causes a 0.6 percentage point increase in the probability that the borrower falls
into the
subprime category (credit score of 620 or less) and a 0.8 percentage point increase in the probability that a borrower falls
into deeply
subprime (500 or less).
Additionally, that 10 percent increase in student loan
debt increases the probability that a borrower falls
into the
subprime category (a credit score of 620 or less) by 0.6 percent.
Buyers of distressed
debt are benefiting from the residential
subprime mortgage crisis, which spilled
into the CMBS market and virtually shut it down.
The implosion of the
subprime lending market in residential real estate first began to emerge in February, throwing the
debt markets
into a tizzy globally.