Sentences with phrase «making subprime lending»

By 2005, many lenders dropped the required FICO score to 620, making it much easier to qualify for prime loans and making subprime lending a riskier business.

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Big Wall Street banks have found a way to continue funneling money to high - risk borrowers — by lending to other institutions who make the so - called subprime loans.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Wells Fargo spokeswoman Vickee Adams said the problematic FHA loans turned up as the bank reviewed operations at two mortgage channels it has closed down: a subprime lending arm, Wells Fargo Financial, and a wholesale arm that made loans through independent brokers.

Oblivious to the recent debacle in subprime home lending, auto lenders have worked hard to develop the subprime (borrowers with credit scores below 640) auto loan market, offering seven and eight year loans and other strategies designed to make monthly payments low.

To make matters worse, the alternative available to you — the subprime lending in the auto market — might not seem too appealing because of what the public thinks and says about it.

While many lenders are nervous when it comes to making out a new mortgage for those with bad credit, there are many out there who understand that the average person who has found themselves with a mortgage payment that they can not pay is simply a victim of a risqué lending practice that has fortunately come to an end with stricter legislation on subprime lending being passed.

Although FHA was caught unawares by a tremendous increase in its market share when subprime lending went south, it has made important strides in monitoring mortgage lenders and enforcing FHA guidelines for underwriting mortgage loans.

Also, they didn't do any subprime lending, because they can't: the definition of a subprime loan is precisely a loan that doesn't meet the requirement, imposed by law, that Fannie and Freddie buy only mortgages issued to borrowers who made substantial down payments and carefully documented their income.

Lehman's decision to shutter the lending unit, BNC Mortgage, makes it the latest casualty in the subprime mortgage meltdown that started earlier this year and rippled into the broader credit markets starting in late July.

The Government was twisting the arms of lending institutions to make subprime loans to those who were very unlikely to pay those loans back.

The FHA has made this change to protect themselves from the higher lending risks that are associated with subprime (bad credit) borrowers.

Although the justification for the lower and lower lending standards was to make housing affordable for low and moderate income people, the boom really took off when middle class Americans started using subprime loans.

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Capital has backed away from lending to subprime borrowers, and the concern is that Congress will make it even harder for capital to get to borrowers who'll need it to refinance over the next couple of years,» says George.