The territory does not have a looming sub-prime mortgage problem, and local lenders are well capitalised.
Rather than ACORN arguing for sub-prime mortgages, nurses and the AFL-CIO are pushing a FTT.
Apparently, the business of gossip can be as challenging as that of sub-prime lending.
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Just as with Bernie Madoff and the sub-prime fiasco, the SEC has been warned about SCF.
One reason is that the country's banks were relatively unexposed to the US sub-prime mortgage market.
One potential worry is sub-prime lending: loans to people with a bad credit history.
Despite the sub-prime market's attractive returns, prices have not fallen as others come in.
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Europe has not yet escaped sub-prime because people hold hefty mortgages that they cannot walk away from.
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U.S. lending practices, spurred by short-term gain, had banks lending to sub-prime borrowers with no money down.
Last month, National City , also of Cleveland, said it would consider a sale of its First Franklin sub-prime unit.
Such a programme would be cheap, he says, because sub-prime lending is so concentrated in certain neighbourhoods.
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The impact of misrepresenting or miscalculating risk was felt in the sub-prime market and cascading global financial meltdown.
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Mr Sarbanes's law and the others may stop some of the most egregious practices of rogue sub-prime lenders.
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Providian lent extensively to sub-prime (high-risk) consumers and has been bitten by extraordinarily high charge-offs and delinquent loans.
The folks who got Fannie and Freddie into the sub-prime business (Daniel, etc.).
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If it does not, the sufferings of sub-prime lenders may make First Union wish it had stuck to banking.
And some of that was good, but unfortunately what you started seeing were what were called these sub-prime loans.
Capital One boasts an extensive customer data analysis system that helps keep its lending reasonable in the sub-prime category.
It had warned earlier in the year that it was struggling as thousands of its sub-prime borrowers battled with debt.
Other fancy lending schemes, such as sub-prime and interest-only mortgages, have been introduced to encourage poorer Americans onto the housing ladder.
The sub-prime crisis constitutes the most glaring example of this schizophrenic behavior, and our collective inability to understand or refrain it.
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Three years ago, the sub-prime mortgage crisis was about to burst into a full-blown economic disaster for the United States.
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The FSA said the firm's advisers recommended unsuitable mortgage contracts to customers, such as sub-prime deals when mainstream mortgages were available.
Compared to the losses taken by Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS, Deutsche Bank has dodged the worst of the sub-prime mortgage crash.
The good news is that high default rates may be less painful in places whose sub-prime problem sits atop an economic boom.
Its banks have declared some losses from dabbling in American sub-prime mortgages.
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The McCain ad also accuses congressional "liberals" of showing bad judgment when they pushed for "risky" sub-prime loans and fought against more regulation.
For a start, credit rating agencies' own credibility hasn't recovered - perhaps it never will - from their role in the sub-prime fiasco.
Most people know that the meteoric rise of home prices between 2001 and 2006 had to do with sub-prime loans and mortgage-backed securities.
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"That is about 2% of the mortgage market and they would have been taken mainly by buy-to-let borrowers and sub-prime borrowers, " he said.
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