The same shortage of assets that so vexes Warren Buffett is putting enormous downward
pressure on bank loan yields and even relatively inaccessible assets such as GNMA MSRs, which are changing hands around a 9 % unlevered yield according to our friends at Mountain View.
Not exact matches
Tasked with avoiding a new financial crisis, the ECB is putting
pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets from unpaid
loans inherited from the last recession, a problem for most countries in the south of Europe, as well as Slovenia and Ireland.
That puts extra
pressure on state
banks to finally clean up their soured
loans.
WASHINGTON — President Obama
pressured the heads of the nation's biggest
banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large
bank to make more
loans and vaguer assurances from others.
Whereas in most markets an increase in short - selling puts
pressure on the lending market and pushes up the interest rate at which short - sellers can borrow the underlying stock, the ready supply of gold
loans from central
banks seeking to earn some return
on their gold holdings has, until recently, helped to keep lease rates low, generally in the range of 1 — 2 per cent (Graph B3).
First, by announcing it the Chancellor has raised the salience of an important issue and put
pressure on the
banks not to dismiss requests for
loans without examining them properly.
He's asked if he'll apply the same
pressure on student
loan companies to reduce interest rates as he has
on banks.
The cap limits how high the
bank can nudge up the interest rate
on your
loan, thus limiting your monthly payments (and blood
pressure).
The reason for such help is not because some home buyers didn't lie
on their
loan applications, or because some lenders didn't look the other way when borrowers were patently unqualified for big
loans, or that
banks and brokers
on Wall Street were not obligated to check the value of securities and properly report them, rather it was a matter of self - interest — fewer foreclosures mean less downward
pressure on local home values, including the value of your home and mine.
Concerns that the Hunts might not be able to meet margins with new
loans and would go under (pulling several brokerages and
banks with them), put further downward
pressure on the price of silver.
The
banks are likely to respond by raising
loan rates and / or by tightening credit, should
pressure on their funding costs persist.
A new Senate bill is intended to end a couple of private student
loan practices that have harmed borrowers.The American student
loan crisis is garnering the attention of lawmakers, and now there are two new proposals in the Senate
banking bill to ease the
pressure debt is putting
on student
loan borrowers, according to CNBC.The latest proposals aim to mitigate the negative effect of student
loans would tackle how private student
loan lenders approach the issue of a cosigner's death or bankruptcy, as well as how defaults would be reported
on the borrower's credit report.Numerous studies have pointed toward...
The Brazilian government has been stepping up their
pressure on illegal loggers and cattle ranchers by halting
bank loans and confiscating products.
Banks are also facing more regulatory
pressure on high volatility commercial real estate (HVCRE)
loans due to Basel III rules.
Federal regulators are now putting tremendous
pressure on banks to dispose of bad
loans and properties that they've held for an excessive length of time.
That makes issuing additional equity more difficult and puts even more
pressure on the
banks to sell
loans, says Mark Osgood, president of a debt fund for Irvine, Calif. - based Thompson National Properties.
Loan availability in this sector, which already holds approximately 45 percent of commercial real estate
loans, according to Deloitte Development, will largely depend
on how many troubled
loans a
bank currently holds and how much
pressure it is under from regulators to boost reserves, says Steve Roth, executive vice president in the Chicago office of Grubb & Ellis.