There is not much competition between them, and regulations often prescribe the exact types of mortgage that can be offered.

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The most common investor mortgage fraud schemes are different types of property flipping, occupancy fraud and the straw buyer scam.

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Mortgage REITs buy the riskiest types of debt, use leverage to do it, and are often rife with conflicts of interest.

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In fact, for all the current excitement about rock-star bonds and the like, it is striking that the vast majority of asset-backed securities are American and involve a few types of assets, such as mortgage and credit-card loans, which generate relatively predictable amounts of cash at predictable times.

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Also on Friday, General Electric unit WMC Mortgage said it would stop making loans to certain types of borrowers and will cut 460 workers, or 20% of its staff.

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Also on Friday, General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) unit WMC Mortgage said it would stop making loans to certain types of borrowers and will cut 460 workers, or 20% of its staff.

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The mortgage business of Bank of America generates revenues from selling various types of mortgages and loans to customers.

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Fueled by fears from the mortgage fallout, investors grew increasingly risk averse and unwilling to take types of corporate debt.

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The profit, Dimon said, was the product of markdowns on leveraged loans and mortgage trading positions, as well as weak trading results and deterioration in all types of loans.

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