The agency says the men painted a positive picture of Countrywide's risk management and underwriting practices and made optimistic statements about its business prospects to investors while privately acknowledging that risk management was lax, losses were mounting and the business faced a bleak future.
Then there are so-called sidecars, which assume a percentage of underwriting risk from reinsurers for a cut of premiums.
It also says the three ignored the warnings of a company risk officer that the underwriting practices and marketing strategy of matching competitors' offers to subprime and option loan borrowers was substantially increasing risk in the portfolios.
With the IMF moving in, you have a socialization of risk, with taxpayers underwriting investors.
These will receive a handsome yield in return for underwriting the risk of cancellation.
The remaining spread of the mortgage rate over the Treasury yield represents the risk of prepayment and underwriting costs.
Kabbage is one of a number of start-ups providing loans based on a new form of underwriting and risk analysis based on new or different kinds of data.
As bank examiners and officers become increasingly conscious of the limitations of an Excel-based approach to underwriting and risk management, the demand for alternative solutions will continue to rise.
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It means the British taxpayer is underwriting very dangerous high-risk activities, so for that reason alone they should be split up.
Over the past two decades, bankers have become heavily reliant upon Excel for underwriting decisions as well as risk management reporting.
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Banks want to refund only those mortgages that defaulted, while insurers say the entire pool was tainted by shoddy underwriting practices that made their risk calculations flawed.
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Subprime mortgages could be offered by those who are willing to take the long term risk, but only mortgages meeting the underwriting requirements could be securitized or guaranteed by Fannie or Freddie.
They are all subject to headline risk in a tough environment for trading, underwriting and investment banking.
Such a move could make those customers a more-favorable credit risk according to the bank's own underwriting standards, or it could deter the customer from staying with the bank.
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Moreover, companies boasting good credit still borrow when risk flows freely while less worthy borrowers obtain credit after underwriting spigots tighten.
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Indeed, federal bank examiners have said they are keeping a close eye on loan underwriting standards, concerned that institutions will take on inappropriate levels of risk as they seek ways to remain profitable in a low interest-rate, difficult economic environment.
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To put it simply, as long as investment yields exceed underwriting losses, the way to maximise shareholder value is to underwrite as much risk as possible with as little capital as possible.
There are economic reasons why BABs underwriting fees may have started out high and then come down: underwriters took on risk with a new product and had to bear start-up costs and devote resources to educate investors for their initial offerings.
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