By reading the complicated prospectuses of many of the MBSs on the market, he realized
the poor quality of the loans that were packaged in these securities.
Not exact matches
That came after the company had jumped into mortgage - backed securities, a complex package
of debts that often meant higher margins for banks, yet often included
poor quality loans.
That structure enabled some
of these securities to gain high credit ratings even when the average
quality of the underlying
loans was
poor.
By the end
of January, the Italian government managed to strike a deal with the European Commission (EC), which allowed the country's lenders to offload their
poor -
quality debt to private investors, along with a government guarantee to protect buyers
of bad
loans — but which would cover only the safest portions
of the
loans.
Consolidation
of federal
loans can also get rid
of some
poor qualities of student
loans.
In 2010 between 22 % to 30 %
of its
loans were considered to be
of poor quality, but only 50
loans with deficiencies were self - reported to HUD, Justice said.
Moreover, something that gets lost in the arguments about credit
quality is that the second - best predictor
of mortgage default was how much skin in the game these buyers had, and even if Canada is not as risky as the US on lending to people with
poor credit scores, we are awash in high
loan - to - value lending (with its explicit government backing).
They came up with $ 4.5 billion in additional funds to support the swaps and convince the counterparties (a number
of European banks), whose
poor quality loans were «insured» by the swaps, to hold off on taking further action.
And even more dangerous during the bubble was the excessive use
of leverage (all those
poor -
quality loans).
«Investigations since then have revealed that many banks were aware
of the risks associated with the housing bubble but continued to package
poor quality home
loans and sell them, collecting hefty fees along the way,» CNNMoney reports.
The typical warning signs — excessive debt levels,
poor quality loans, exponentially increasing home prices, rising vacancy rates and / or
poor affordability compared to the past, and a high number
of internet searches on house flipping — are not present.»