• In finance, subprime lending (also referred to as near-prime, subpar, non-prime, and second-chance lending) is the provision of loans to people in the...
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    The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global...
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    economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages targeting low-income homebuyers, excessive risk-taking by global...
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  • assets were usually subprime mortgages. These CDOs have been called "the engine that powered the mortgage supply chain" for subprime mortgages, and are...
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  • known for being among the first investors to predict and profit from the subprime mortgage crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010. Burry was born and...
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    states. In many regions a real estate bubble, it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline...
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    management, and global clearing services, and it was heavily involved in the subprime mortgage crisis. In the years leading up to the failure, Bear Stearns was...
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  • trust. In 2006, the company was second only to HSBC Finance in issuing subprime mortgages. In the spring of 2007, New Century ran into financial difficulties...
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    or be bailed out in September 2008. This 2007–2008 phase was called the subprime mortgage crisis. The combination of banks unable to provide funds to businesses...
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  • write-down $8.4 billion (~$11.9 billion in 2023) in losses associated with the subprime mortgage crisis, and terminated E. Stanley O'Neal as its chief executive...
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  • subprime mortgage crisis covers the United States government policies and its impact on the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2009. The U.S. subprime mortgage...
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    correspondent lender and mortgage broker specializing in the origination of subprime and Alt-A mortgage loans. AFM also operated a wholesale mortgage lending...
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  • The subprime mortgage crisis impact timeline lists dates relevant to the creation of a United States housing bubble and the 2005 housing bubble burst (or...
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  • The government interventions during the subprime mortgage crisis were a response to the 2007–2009 subprime mortgage crisis and resulted in a variety of...
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  • This article is a subordinate article to the subprime mortgage crisis. It covers some of the miscellaneous effects of the crisis in more detail, to preserve...
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    agencies. The collapse was largely due to Lehman's involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis and its exposure to less liquid assets. Lehman's bankruptcy...
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  • the subprime mortgages from unsuspecting triple-A seeking investors, and contributing to the 2007-2009 financial crisis by amplifying the subprime mortgage...
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    to the subprime lending game, entering the market in a substantial way in 2005. The GSE's followed rather than led the race to purchase subprime loan securities...
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    the subprime mortgage crisis. After the financial services firm was notified of a pending credit downgrade due to its heavy position in subprime mortgages...
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  • predicted and effectively bet against the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis by purchasing credit default swaps on subprime securities, which, in turn, increased in...
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  • largest trading loss in history. He made a successful short trade in risky subprime mortgages in the U.S., but to fund his trade he sold insurance on AAA-rated...
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  • GMAC ResCap (category Subprime mortgage crisis)
    GMAC (now Ally Financial). As a result of its exposure to subprime lending during the subprime mortgage crisis, the company filed for bankruptcy protection...
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    products known as subprime mortgages emerged and began to compete with the traditional mortgages that were financed by the FHA. These subprime products were...
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    beneficial, the term virtuous cycle is used instead. The contemporary subprime mortgage crisis is a complex group of vicious circles, both in its genesis...
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    Recession that started in 2008 with the US subprime mortgage crisis. The major causes of the initial subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession...
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  • article provides background information regarding the subprime mortgage crisis. It discusses subprime lending, foreclosures, risk types, and mechanisms through...
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  • adjusted downwards in late 2006, causing a loss of market liquidity and subprime defaults. A real estate bubble is a type of economic bubble that occurs...
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  • Services, likening their loaning practices to what he witnessed from the subprime mortgage industry in the midst of the housing bubble: Until recently, I...
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    as the "Greenspan put", were a leading cause of the dot-com bubble and subprime mortgage crisis (the latter occurring within a year of his leaving the...
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  • Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis is the impact of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the American subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 that...
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