If Japan does not stand behind the loans it has made to Southeast Asia, then the spillover from Asia to the U.S. could become more serious, says Clough.
Many banks are struggling to put their bad loans behind them, adjust to a raft of costly regulations and increase revenue in challenging economic conditions.
Ms. Jones, who works for a company that manages corporate-benefits plans, said she fell behind on her student loans after she found she couldn't afford to go back to Northeastern and her loan payments started kicking in.
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JPMorgan has long been hampered by weakness in their large credit card division, but that business showed improving trends as it reported 5.62% of those loans were behind more than 30 days which is far better than the 6.28% seen just a quarter ago.
Some homeowners with so-called Alternative A loans are falling behind on their monthly payments.
Returns on leveraged loans have lagged behind those achieved by high-yield bonds this year.
College dropouts are also among the most likely to default on their loans, falling behind at a rate four times that of graduates.
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Over the next six months, Citi will contact 500, 000 borrowers who are not currently delinquent but close to falling behind to see if those loans could be modified.
The Germans are robust and France is drafting behind them, but premiums on loans to the peripheral economies (Greece, Ireland, Portugal) are spiking again and Spain remains vulnerable.
As a result, commercial mortgage bonds, including these shaky malls, have lagged behind a recent rally and retail loans in new deals are getting greater scrutiny from investors and rating firms.
Take my word, in aggregate the math and division yields that nearly 45% of all of these FHA insured loans are three payments or more behind.
The collateral behind the mortgage portfolio, which includes no subprime loans, has "continued to perform well" since October, the firm said.
Weighed down by credit card debt and student loans, many young adults are already far behind in their finances before they even get started.
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Sandy is on pace to attract the third-highest amount of disaster loans in U.S. history, behind only Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
And it will increase -- allow them to increase loan sizes, and make sure that we continue to waive fees for SBA loans that have helped a number of the people standing behind me.
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Banks' use of the three-year loans also means current holders of bank debt would stand behind the ECB in the line to collect if a borrower collapsed, so "it has become even more expensive for banks to fund in the wholesale bond market, " said Ben Bennett, credit strategist at Legal and General Investment Management.
Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon and the authors behind the Rainbow Magic series, all clocked up more than a million loans last year.
Worse, loans are decaying remarkably quickly: the number of borrowers falling behind on payments in the first few months has leapt, to around 4% of the total.
So the reason you're all here, the reason all these fine-looking young people behind me are here is that in just over a week the interest rates on federal student loans are scheduled to double.
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As one example, an internal Bear Stearns email of June 2006 is cited which says that 60% of loans being bought from a particular mortgage company, AHM, were 30 days or more delinquent or behind on payments.
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