Citigroup to Sell Student Loan Unit at $500 Million Loss

Analysis: Private Banks Battling for Advisers to Super-Rich
Analysis: Private Banks Battling for Advisers to Super-Rich

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CO-OPERATIVES: Saraswat Co-op Bank seeks nod for shares with premium To ensure that its organic and inorganic growth plans are not hamstrung by the limitations of raising core capital that urban cooperative banks face, the Mumbai-headquartered Saraswat Co-operative Bank has moved the Central Government and …

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Citigroup to Sell Student Loan Unit at $500 Million Loss
The buyers, Discover Financial Services and Sallie Mae, will pick up billions of dollars in student loans.

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Who is to blame for the financial mortgage and lending crises?

“How banks were bullied into making bad loans”
‘Community activists’ used pressure tactics to secure high-risk mortgages
Posted: April 05, 2009, 7:11 pm Eastern
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WASHINGTON – Using tools provided by the federal Community Reinvestment Act, community organizers led by a self-described “banking terrorist” applied bullying tactics to secure high-risk mortgages and to shake down lending institutions for billions of dollars – actions that likely contributed to the “mortgage meltdown” that triggered the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

That’s the substance of a new report by the Capital Research Center on the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America headed by Bruce Marks.

“NACA has been accused of being overly aggressive and personal,” explains the group’s website. “NACA wears this as a badge of honor, leaving no stone unturned and often hounding CEOs from their shareholder meetings to their homes. The rationale is simple: lenders have a personal and often devastating impact on the lives of the people who they refuse to provide affordable credit to or take advantage of through predatory loans and scams.”

NACA earned that reputation by first targeting Fleet Financial Group of New England, which was accused of lending money to private mortgage companies that, in turn, lent money at “loan shark rates.” NACA filed lawsuits against Fleet and worked with local media on disparaging news coverage. NACA’s “shock troops,” known for wearing yellow shirts, disrupted speeches by bank officials, including one by CEO Terrence Murray at the Harvard Business School.

In 2007, Countrywide Bank was targeted. It quickly acquiesced to demands for a settlement that included a stipulation to restructure its borrowed troubled loans. A year later, Countrywide was insolvent – touching off a string of bank defaults and government bailouts that have cost taxpayers trillions.

“NACA could not operate as it has without the Community Reinvestment Act,” says the CRC report. “The CRA is a federal law, first enacted in 1977, that banned the real estate practice of ‘redlining’ communities, singling out geographical areas where a bank would make no loans. To comply with the CRA, banks had to show that they did not discriminate in making loans in poor and black neighborhoods.”

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Fitch Takes Various Actions on KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s CMBS Servicer Ratings

Fitch Affirms Midland Loan Services’ CMBS Servicer Ratings
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fitch Ratings affirms Midland Loan Services, Inc.’s (Midland) commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) servicer ratings as follows: –Primary servicer rating affirmed at ‘CPS1′; –Master servicer rating affirmed at ‘CMS1′; –Special servicer rating affirmed at ‘CSS1′. The ratings reflect the company’s extensive CMBS servicing experience, strong performing loan …

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Serepisos building’s income placed in receivership
The income from a Wellington commercial building owned by Century City Ventures has been placed in the hands of receivers, in the latest signs of financial difficulty besetting the property developer and Phoenix football franchise owner Terry Serepisos.

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Fitch Takes Various Actions on KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s CMBS Servicer Ratings
CHICAGO—-Fitch Ratings affirms KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s commercial mortgage-backed securities servicer ratings as follows:

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