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Category: Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges. The banks that funded the subprime industry were not victims of an unforeseen financial collapse, as they have sometimes portrayed themselves, but enablers that bankrolled the type of lending threatening the financial system.

Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

A roundup of investigations in the three years since the last market crash

Avatar photo by Shirley Gao August 8, 2011April 2, 2019

The stock market is in a tailspin after the U.S. government lost its AAA credit rating for the first time in history, raising echoes of the catastrophic Wall Street fallout three years ago. But how did it all begin? Who were the key players? Where do regulators go from here? Here, we recount the Center […]

Posted inInequality

Ginnie Mae’s troubling endorsements

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Brian Grow and Zachary Goldfarb December 10, 2009April 1, 2019
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

You broke it? You fix it.

by John Dunbar August 26, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

More mortgage fraud reporting?

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron July 16, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inInequality

Subprime loans were big business for struggling lender CIT

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron July 13, 2009April 11, 2022
Posted inInequality

Mortgage companies and the new regulatory regime

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron June 17, 2009April 11, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

Leaders of the nation’s No. 1 subprime lender charged by the SEC

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron June 4, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

Subprime loans may have sunk BankUnited FSB

Avatar photo by Laura Cheek June 4, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

Goldman settlement sends shiver through banking world

by John Dunbar May 11, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

The Financial Meltdown: A Glossary

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 19 of The Subprime 25: Wachovia Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 15 of The Subprime 25: CitiFinancial / Citigroup Inc.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 2 of The Subprime 25: Ameriquest Mortgage Co./ACC Capital Holdings Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 23 of The Subprime 25: GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Inc./Capital One Financial Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 18 of The Subprime 25: American General Finance Inc./American International Group Inc. (AIG)

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 13 of The Subprime 25: Accredited Home Lenders Inc./Lone Star Funds V

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 1 of The Subprime 25: Countrywide Financial Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 9 of The Subprime 25: HSBC Finance Corp./HSBC Holdings plc

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 25 of The Subprime 25: Aegis Mortgage Corp./Cerberus Capital Management

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 10 of The Subprime 25: WMC Mortgage Corp./General Electric Co.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 3 of The Subprime 25: New Century Financial Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 17 of The Subprime 25: Encore Credit Corp./ ECC Capital Corp./Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 24 of The Subprime 25: ResMAE Mortgage Corp./Citadel Investment Group

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 14 of The Subprime 25: IndyMac Bancorp, Inc.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 11 of The Subprime 25: BNC Mortgage Inc./Lehman Brothers

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 6 of The Subprime 25: Option One Mortgage Corp./H&R Block Inc.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 5 of The Subprime 25: Long Beach Mortgage Co./Washington Mutual

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 7 of The Subprime 25: Fremont Investment & Loan/Fremont General Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 16 of The Subprime 25: EquiFirst Corp./Regions Financial Corp./Barclays Bank plc

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 21 of The Subprime 25: NovaStar Financial Inc.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022

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