Predatory Lending

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• SB 94: D.O.A. Loan Modifications

  
  San Jose-Santa Clara County Real Estate UNCENSORED — Authority: 91
  The buzz around Senate Bill 94 (SB 94) causing the “Death Of All Loan Modifications” faded away just as fast as the controversy T-Pain caused with his comments about Jay-Z and his lead single “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).”Jay-Z’s critical lyrics from his lead single sure made artists think twice before using ...
  2 days ago

• Credit Card Reform; Center for Responsible Lending Issues New Report on Credit Card Industry Practices

  
  Denise Richardson — Authority: 123
  The Center for Responsible Lending has issued a new report on credit card abuses called  " Dodging Reform: As Some Credit Card Abuses Are Outlawed, New Ones Proliferate, " In their latest report they discuss how credit card companies found new ways around the Credit CARD Act intended to stop abusive credit card ...
  3 days ago

• MYTHS of MODIFICATION EXPOSED

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 132
  MYTH  any imaginary person or thing spoken of as though existing any fictitious story, or unscientific account, theory, belief, etc. Kudos to investigative journalist Kevin Hall with McClatchy Newspapers for inserting himself into the so called “loan modification” process and exposing the farce that is being ...
  6 days ago

• Your Guide to Understanding Predatory Lending Laws & How to Report Mortgage Fraud

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 154
  There are lending practices that are abusive and predatory in nature. How can you identify these? Below are questions that could help you determine fraud in lending. If you answered “yes” to any of the questions, contact the appropriate agency/agencies. Source: Your Guide to Understanding Predatory Lending Laws ...
  6 days ago

• Subprime Credit Cards Adapt to New Regulations

  
  Caveat Emptor — Authority: 114
  New regulations designed to stop credit card lending abuses cap the first-year fees a credit card issuer may charge at 25% of the credit limit. So First Premier Bank is doing just that, charging $75 for a credit card with a $300 limit. But since the new law does not limit interest rates, First Premier Bank cards come ...
  1 week ago

• Fight Over Payday Loan Loophole Heats Back Up

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 577
  Another year passed without the General Assembly closing the most significant loophole in the 2005 Payday Loan Reform Act. That means many strapped borrowerslooking for some flexibility before the holidays will be exposed tosmall-dollar consumer installment loans (CILA) that carry a big risk of long-term debt. ...
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• Australian Mortgage Fraudster Murdered

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 145
  The activities of murdered Sydney businessman Michael McGurk has again come under the spotlight – this time in connection with New South Wales’s biggest fraud investigation.Up to 260 people are wanted for questioning over the alleged $150 million scam which involves mortgage fraud.Police say former Bank Of ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer Credit Availability and Financial Exclusion in Australia

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 565
  Forced Competition for Competitive Payday Loan Rates? Capping payday loan rates too low will kill competition and hurt consumers – in Brisbane, Queensland or anywhere else. Legislators from various nations have proposed that control over consumer credit become centralized, i.e. placed under control of the ...
  1 week ago

• DC Scorecard: Bank lobbyists win again, with help from Dem friends

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 612
  Bloomberg takes a hard look at the lobbying fight over financial regulatory overhaul and concludes that despite last week’s passage of a financial regulatory overhaul package by the House, the banks won — simply by not losing as badly as they once thought they might. Their aggressive lobbying ensured that ...
  1 week ago

• By Not Losing, Bank Lobbyists Won — With Help From Their Democratic Friends

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Bloomberg takes a hard look at the lobbying fight over financial regulatory overhaul and concludes that despite last week’s passage of a financial regulatory overhaul package by the House, the banks won — simply by not losing as badly as they once thought they might.  Their aggressive lobbying ensured that ...
  1 week ago

• Bankruptcy Filings by State Payday Lending "Not a Factor"

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 565
  BYU Study Points to Demographics, Bankruptcy Laws Bankruptcy filings from state-to-state have nothing to do with the presence of payday lending and more to do with demographics. For many individuals and families whose financial troubles have led them to the brink of insolvency, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 ...
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• Colorado AG Sues Couple For Mortgage Fraud

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 145
  Attorney General files lawsuit against former Roaring Fork Valley couple suspected of widespread identity theft, commercial-lending fraud12/14/2009DENVER — Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that attorneys from his office’s Consumer Protection Section have filed a lawsuit against two former ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Law and Order’ Trashes ACORN Videos

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 743
  Dick Wolf has fallen from the heights as a writer on “Hill Street Blues,” a supervising producer of “Miami Vice” and the creator/producer of the once-excellent “Law and Order” trilogy.  The flagship of the “Law and Order” series is “Law and Order,” the two other shows being “SVU” (Special ...
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• Caveat emptor vs. victimization

  
  Thurber's Thoughts — Authority: 473
  Let the buyer beware!I was just astounded by this story in todays paper about a woman suing her lender and others because shes in a house she cannot afford.First, shes not a victim, despite the way she is portrayed.She purchased a house for more than it was worth and blames appraisers for valuing the house too high. ...
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• MARLA LYNN SWANSON, Plaintiff, vs. EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, et al.,

  
  Foreclosure Combatant — Authority: 103
  MARLA LYNN SWANSON, Plaintiff, vs. EMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, et al., Defendants. CASE NO. CV F 09-1507 LJO DLB UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA October 29, 2009, Decided October 29, 2009, Filed COUNSEL: For Marla Lynn Swanson, Plaintiff: Sharon L. Lapin, LEAD ...
  2 weeks ago

• Credit Card Interchange Fees and the Art of Predatory Lending

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 124
  As readers of this blog know, I’m a free-market kind of guy. But this doesn’t mean, however, that I’m indifferent to organizations that gouge me on a daily basis. Lately, it seems that everyone wants to sink their teeth into my backside – the state, the feds and now the banks.When it comes [...]
  2 weeks ago

• The Wall Street Money Ties That Lead to Loopholes

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Advocates for financial regulatory reform must be shaking their heads today after watching Rep. Melissa Bean’s (D-Ill.) efforts to weaken a comprehensive financial regulatory reform bill — which have been, all told, pretty effective. As we noted earlier, House lawmakers struck a deal late Thursday night on a ...
  2 weeks ago

• White House loan modification plan falls flat

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 652
  It was last December when Julio Angulo ignored the bitter cold and sat on a rusted patio chair in the front yard of his foreclosed home in suburban Manassas, Va. He sighed, resting his hand on his knee. He stared despondently at the sky. His lender had foreclosed on his house in July. He had just been evicted. ...
  2 weeks ago

• White House Loan Modification Plan Falls Flat

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Julio Angulo was evicted from his Virginia home last December. (American News Project) It was last December when Julio Angulo ignored the bitter cold and sat on a rusted patio chair in the front yard of his foreclosed home in suburban Manassas, Va. He sighed, resting his hand on his knee. He stared despondently at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do You Know How to Identify Predatory Lending?

  
  TFGI — Authority: 115
  Predatory lending is a term used all the time, but do you know how to identify when it exists? There are many consumers who are lured into loan agreements without realizing they are victims of predatory lending practices. Predatory lending is considered to be unethical and even abusive, yet it continues. Like identify ...
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