Russia even got the American taxpayer to foot the bill through IMF and other loans.
Furthermore, home equity has evaporated (see chart 6 ) and tight lending standards on credit card and other loans prevail.
Some firms offer housing and other loans or other loans to executives.
It had been trying to bring down the amount of debt it had on its books, shedding among other things bad mortgages and other loans.
The claim is that returns for mortgages or other loans tied to dollar-based LIBOR were depressed because rates had been suppressed by banks manipulating LIBOR.
The risk is exacerbated by the fact that many credit guarantee companies were capitalized with loans from the same banks whose other loans they are guaranteeing.
Also, consumers are no longer saving less and borrowing more on credit card, home equity and other loans to bridge the gap between income and desired spending growth.
Investors are increasingly risk-adverse, companies are struggling to raise the capital they need to expand, and banks are increasingly unwilling to provide mortgages and other loans to families.
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The other is to force the banks' hand, for instance, by changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to restructure mortgages in the same way as other loans.
If a lender makes a mortgage loan, he or she can repackage that obligation with other loans and sell it on the secondary market to reduce the risk.
Some healthy banks hold mortgages and other loans that are mispriced and unlikely to ever make money on the spread between what they charge and their true cost of funds.
JPMorgan Chase reported an 84% decline in third-quarter profits Wednesday, burdened by costs for its late-night purchase of troubled thrift Washington Mutual and its own exposure to deteriorating consumer mortgages and other loans.
Rating agencies stated this week that a default in Greece or any other weak European Union country like Portugal, Ireland or Italy would cause them to no longer permit that debt to create other loans.
As with other loans under this new facility, the Kenyan loan was approved only after a consultation process led by the Kenyan government with extensive participation by the private sector and non-governmental and community-based organisations.
So that's one concern, and another concern is some of them still have pretty tough liabilities on their books because a lot of them lent into commercial real estate or other loans that they're not sure are going to get repaid.
And it's really pretty emotional as far as we can tell, which is lenders of other kinds of financial instruments - corporate loans, other kinds of loans, begin to look over their shoulder and say, oh, gee, did we do any of the strange things that the subprime mortgage market did.
The business cannot be easily ignored owing to the huge yield margins in credit card loans with respect to other consumer loans.
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The Consumer Services segment represents the company's branch network, including consumer banking products and services related to residential first mortgages, home equity lines and loans, indirect loans, consumer credit cards and other consumer loans, as well as the corresponding deposit relationships.
Also, the freeze applies to loans taken between January 2005 and July 2007, excluding other adjustable loans that have already reset to higher rates.
If Barclays hasn't, in fact, obtained or offered such loans, its new rules say it must calculate the rate on the basis of other secured loans that the bank has been involved with (i.e. loans backed by collateral).
Other strategic loans to fill occasional historical gaps remind us of the amazing old-master paintings still in private collections.
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The "cooperation agreement" applied only to the firms' ratings on mortgage securities backed by subprime and other risky loans.
The rates that banks charge each other for loans in the interbank market are rising, too, as they did then.
The picture was different for Fidelity Select Home Finance, which invests primarily in companies providing mortgages and other consumer loans.
It ignores masses of other troubled loans that are better rated by the banks, but are, in reality, just as wobbly.
In the next year the Federal Reserve System is widely expected to increase the rate banks can charge each other for loans.
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The CFPB will have the power to set and enforce rules on credit cards as well as mortgages and other consumer loans.
These companies were deep into subprime and other risky loans, and by the end of 2007 most of them were losing billions.
By the time of the housing collapse, there were 27 million subprime and other risky loans, half of all mortgages in the United States.
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