...Countrywide / Bank of America Countrywide used to be one of the major mortgage companies in the United States until the housing market started to fall. They had so much bad loans that executives were about to closed the doors, until Bank of America came to the rescues and purchase the company. This was the beginning of the nightmare that was soon to make the evening news. The American people were soon to find out about all the creative loans that were approved to unsuspecting customers who were soon to lose their homes. This was the beginning of the end for Countrywide and a turbulent time for Bank of America which is still going on today. Defining and Analyze To define all the issues that created the downfall of Countrywide, we first need to look at the history of the company. The company was created by Angelo R. Mozilo and David Loeb about forty years ago. The partners were able to grow the company into a $500 billion home loan company and assets of $200 billion (The New York Times 2011). To be one of the major mortgage companies, they took many risks to ensure that their customers could live the America dream of owning a house. There have been many issues that led to the downfall of Countrywide. Greed would have to be high on the list. They approved loans that many other companies would not. Part of the problem happened during the crazy housing bubble that enables almost anyone to be approved for a mortgage. Gone were the days of qualifying for a mortgage by providing...
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...confidence again in the business world. Confidence in the character of the business world will enhance predictability, reliability, dependability, integrity, and regularity. Trust will give the business world a form of freedom. It will allow the business world to explore new directions, possibilities, and alternatives. Although trust always has its limits and always involves risk, trust frees the business institution from the need to continuously recheck, rethink, and reanalyze every decision and action they make. But we still need to have “gatekeepers” to keep executives from committing fraud again. Savings & Loan Scandal There have been many disappointments in my lifetime and that’s just in the past 30 years where the government has had to step in and provided some assistance at the expense of the American people. We can go back to the early 80’s when all the Savings & Loans went belly up and the government had to interfere and bail out all of them. The government spent billions of dollars to clean this mess. It was called the worse disaster since the Great Depression. Congress passed the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 because of...
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...Ms. Salinas Savings & Loan has bucked the trend of financial and liquidity problems that has plagued the industry since 1985. Ms. Salinas believes it is necessary to have a long range strategic plan for her firm including a 1 year forecast and preferably even a 5 year forecast of deposits. Objective:1.To determine what would be a successful forecasting tool for the strategic plan of Ms. Salinas.2. To compare different forecasting tool with its Pros and Cons. | II. Review of Background Information: | In this case study, we should also focus the discussion on the 1980s concurrent crisis in the savings and loan (S&L) industry even though it was stated that Salinas has bucked the trend of financial problems during this period. A review of the S&L debacle (as it is commonly known today) provides several important lessons for financial-institution regulators. Moreover, legislation enacted in response to the crisis substantially reformed both bank and thrift regulation and dramatically altered the FDIC’s operations. The causes of this debacle and the events surrounding its resolution have been documented and analysed in great detail by academics, governmental bodies, former bank and thrift regulators, and journalists. Although the FDIC had a role in monitoring events as they unfolded and, indeed, played an important part in the eventual cleanup, until 1989 S&Ls were regulated by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB, or Bank Board) and insured by the...
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...Dear hiring agent: I want to express my interest into the Market Development Manager Position. I have a background in successful sales and marketing programs. I am familiar with the retail industry where I was brought into leadership roles. I am seeking to align myself with a progressive company poised for strong growth and market expansion. With extensive experience working with talented sales teams, meeting aggressive revenue targets, and delivering first-class sales solutions, I am confident that I can help your company meet aggressive goals as well. Capitalizing on my success at Federal Home Loan Bank, I am seeking a professional opportunity to leverage my exceptional sales record and proven account management skills to benefit your company as well as your clients. With the practical experience and demonstrated success, I have the drive and talent to quickly become a top performer within your organization. With this goal in mind, I have attached a resume outlining my qualifications. Some of my key strengths and accomplishments include: • A proven performer with a track record of outperforming sales goals, delivering high levels of customer service, and achieving successful sales results. • Ability to quickly cultivate relationships with very difficult to access, influential decision makers. • Proactively approach account and business challenges applying problem-solving skills, persistence, teamwork and resourcefulness to achieve positive results. Given my sales...
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...Case Study: Lincoln Savings and Loan Association In 1978, Charles Keating, Jr. began focusing his time and energy on his business endeavours when he founded the real estate firm, American Continental Corporation (ACC). Six years later, ACC acquired Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was headquartered in Phoenix, although its principal operations were in California. In his application to purchase Lincoln, Keating pledged to regulatory authorities that he would retain the Lincoln management team, that he would not use brokered deposits to expand the size of the savings and loan, and that residential home loans would remain Lincoln's principal line of business. After gaining control of Lincoln, Keating replaced the management team; began accepting large deposits from money brokers, which allowed him to nearly triple the size of the savings and loan in two years; and shifted the focus of Lincoln's lending activity from residential mortgage loans to land development projects. On 14 April 1989, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FFILBB) seized control of Lincoln Savings and Loan, alleging that Lincoln was dissipating its assets by operating in an unsafe and unsound manner. On that date, Lincoln's balance sheet reported total assets of $5.3 billion, only 2.3 percent of which were investments in residential mortgage loans. Nearly two-thirds of Lincoln's asset portfolio was invested directly or indirectly in high-risk land ventures and other commercial development projects. At...
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...Term Paper on: The Federal Home Loan Bank System Abstract The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System is a large, complex, and understudied government-sponsored liquidity facility that currently has more than $1 trillion in secured loans outstanding, mostly to commercial banks and thrifts. In this paper, we document the significant role played by the FHLB System at the onset of the ongoing financial crises and then provide evidence on the uses of these funds by the System’s bank and thrift members. Next, we identify the trade-offs faced by member-borrowers when choosing between accessing the FHLB System or the Federal Reserve’s Discount Window during the crisis period. We conclude by describing the fragmented U.S. lender-of-last-resort framework and finding that additional clarity about the respective roles of the various liquidity facilities would be helpful. Key words: Federal Home Loan Bank, government-sponsored enterprise, lender of last resort, liquidity Table of Contents Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank System The Role of FHLB Advances during the 2007 Liquidity Crisis Aggregate Balance Sheets Regression Analysis Crisis-Related Lending by the Federal Reserve and the FHLB System Conclusion References Introduction In July 2007, the credit rating agencies (Standard & Poors, Moody’s, and Fitch) responded to the rapid deterioration in the performance of recently originated subprime mortgages by taking a ...
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...INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION TO HOME LOANS Home is a dream of a person that shows the quantity of efforts, sacrifices luxuries and above all gathering funds little by little to afford one’s dream. Home is one of the things that everyone one wants to own. Home is a shelter to person where he rests and feel comfortable. Many banks providing home loans whether commercial banks or financial institutions to the people who want to have a home. HDFC-(Housing Development And Finance Corporation) Home Loan, India have been serving the people for around three decades and providing various housing loan according to their varied needs at attractive & reasonable interest rates. Owing to their wide network of financing, HDFC Housing Loans provides services at your doorstep and helps you find a home as per your requirements. Many banks are providing home loans at cheapest rate to attract consumers towards them. The more customer friendly attitude of these banks, currently offer to consumers cheapest loan over homes. In view of acute housing shortage in the country, and keeping in mind the social – economic role of commercial banks in the present times, the RBI advised banks to encourage the flow of credit for housing finance. With the RBI reducing bank rate, the home loan market rates nose-diving by 50 basis points. The HDFC Bank and Standard chartered bank has become the first player in this sector to announce a housing loan for a 20 years period. No doubt it will...
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...STUDENT DECLARATION This is to certify that I have completed the Project titled “A STUDY ON HOME LOANS” under the guidance of “Mr. Amit Kumar Gupta” in the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of “Masters in Business Administration” from “Rukmini Devi Institute Of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.” This is an original work and I have not submitted it earlier elsewhere. RAJNI CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project titled “A STUDY ON HOME LOANS” is an academic work done by “RAJNI” submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of “Masters in Business Administration” from “Rukmini Devi Institute Of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.” under my guidance and direction. To the best of my knowledge and belief the data and information presented by him in the project has not been submitted earlier elsewhere. Mr. Amit Kumar Gupta (Project Guide) RDIAS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT "Gratitude is not a thing of expression; it is more matter of feeling." There is always a sense of gratitude which one express towards others for their help and supervision in achieving the goals. This formal piece of acknowledgement is an attempt to express the feeling of gratitude towards people who helpful me in successfully completing...
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...Home is one of the things that everyone one wants to own. Home is a shelter to person where he rests and feels comfortable. Many banks provide home loans, whether commercial banks or financial institutions, to the people who want to have a home. Many banks are providing home loans at cheapest rate to attract consumers towards them. The more customer friendly attitude of these banks, currently offer to consumers cheapest loan over homes. In view of acute housing shortage in the country, and keeping in mind the social – economic role of commercial banks in the present times, the RBI advised banks to encourage the flow of credit for housing finance. With the RBI reducing bank rate, the home loan market rates nose-diving by 50 basis points. The HDFC Bank and Union bank of India has become the first player in this sector to announce a housing loan for a 20 years period. No doubt it will enhance the end cost people to plan their house over longer duration now; it has been made easy for a person to buy that dream house which he dreamt of long ago. HDFC also provides with Home Improvement Loan for internal and external repairs and other structural improvements like painting, waterproofing, plumbing and electric works, tiling and flooring, grills and aluminum windows. HDFC finances up to 85% of the cost of renovation (100% for existing customers). Current status is that HDFC reduced home loan rates by 50 basis points for all its existing floating rate customers. 1.1 ADVANTAGES...
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...A Project Report On A project study on “BANKING AT HDFC BANK LTD.” Submitted by: XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX University, Mumbai MBA in Banking (Finance) DECLARATION I undersigned XXXXX XXXXX student of MBA 3rd semester declare that I have done the project on “ BASIC BANKING AT HDFC BANK LTD.” has been personally done by me under the guidance of Prof. XXXXX XXXXXXX rajkot in partial fulfillment of MBA Program- during academic year-2008-10. All the data represented in this project is true & correct to the best of my knowledge & belief. I also declare that this project report is my own preparation and not copied from anywhere else. Date 10-7-201X Signature XXXXX XXXXXX Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude, thanks and regards towards all of those who have directly or indirectly helped me in the successful completion of this project. I present my sincere thanks to Mr. XXXX XXXX (Branch Manager, bhavngar ) who allowed me to take training at HDFC BANK. I would also like to thank HDFC bank Staff for their wonderful€ support & inspirable guiding. I also thank Prof. XXXX sir XXXX, Rajkot & prof XXXX sir knvibm who has sincerely supported me with the valuable insights into the completion of this project. I am grateful to all faculty members of XXXX rajkot and my friends who have helped me in the successful completion of this project. Last but not the least I am indebted...
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...HOME LOAN TAKEOVER OPPORTUNITY AND CHALLENGES Internship Report submitted to SBI in completion of the requirement of Summer Internship at State Bank of India NAME OF THE STUDENT: kushal Shah PROJECT MENTOR/ REPORTING OFFICER AT THE BANK: Mr Kumar APRIL 6th 2013 TO JULY 6th 2013 Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to Mr. Bhoir, HR, State Bank of India for giving me the opportunity to take up this project and posing faith in me to fulfill the project I also take this opportunity to express a deep sense of gratitude to Company Mentor Mr. Kumar, Manager State Bank of India, for his cordial support, valuable information and guidance, which helped me in completing this task through various stages. I am obliged to staff members of State Bank of India especially Mr. Saraswat & Ms Warrier, HLST Departement, State Bank of India for the valuable information provided by them in respective fields. I am grateful for their cooperation during the period of my assignment. Lastly, I thank almighty, my parents, brother, sisters and friends for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible. I am also thankful to all the respondents whose cooperation & support has helped me a lot in collecting necessary information. Kushal Shah Bottom of Form Table of Contents Sr. no | Particulars | Page no | 1 | 1. Introduction 2.1. Profile of Student 2.2. Profile...
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...A REPORT ON “PRODUCT FEATURES OF HDFC CURRENT ACCOUNT WITH OTHER BANK, CA ACCOUNTS AND CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS” A Thesis Submitted in the partial fulfilment of the requirements for The award of the degree of POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED TO:HDFC BANK Paschim Vihar SUBMITTED BY:Aalok Aashish Kachhap 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The success and final outcome of this project required a lot of guidance and assistance from many people and I am extremely fortunate to have got this all along the completion of my project work. Whatever I have done is only due to such guidance and assistance and I would not forget to thank them. I respect and thank Mr. Uttam Ahluwalia (CH) for giving me an opportunity to do the project work on “Product Features Of HDFC Current Account With Other Bank, CA Accounts And Customer Requirements” and providing me all support and guidance which made me complete the project on time. I would also like thank my industry guide Mr. Raja Saha (BM), I am extremely grateful to him for giving such a nice support and guidance though he had busy schedule and of course I should not forget to thank my faculty guide Dr. KM Kumar, for his full support and guidance throughout the SIP period. I would like to extend my gratitude to Mr. Rohit Parmar (Branch Operations Manager) and Mr. Danish Raza (ABM) who went out of their way to guide me throughout my project and gave varied insights. At last but not least I am also thankful to and fortunate enough...
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...A Project Study Report On Training Undertaken at HDFC Bank Ltd Titled RETAIL LOAN & PARA BANKING PRODUCT IN HDFC BANK LTD. Submitted in partial fulfillment for the Award of degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION |Submitted by |Submitted to | |Abhimanyu Singh Rathore |Mrs. Dhwani Mishra | |MBA Part IV |Faculty Member | 2007-2009 IILM Academy Of Higher Learning, Jaipur Campus (Affiliated to the University of Raj. & Raj. Technical University, Approved by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India) Preface It’s my pleasure and delight to bring out a comprehensive and concise study in organization about RETAIL BANKING System. This study will help in identifying the strength and weakness of the BANKING and also working a quick comparison with ICICI Bank. It will help in taking strategic decision. I’m highly grateful to Mr. Amit Sharma and my helping co trainees. There are innumerable persons who have contributed in brining out this study report of Banking System in India with Specific reference to HDFC Bank Ltd. Acknowledgement I express my sincere thanks...
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...1 ON ICICI BANK In BANKING SECTOR by Name:- PUNEET RATHI Division :- C Roll No. :- 243 MBA-CORE (I year) [pic] CONTENTS Page No. • Introduction to Banking Sector 3 • Activities of a Bank 4 • Banking Sector in India 5 • Regulations 6 • ICICI Bank 8 o Services Offered 9 o Financial Indicators 11 o Corporate Social Responsibility 12 o Partners 13 o PFFF 14 o SWOT analysis 15 o ICICI vs. HDFC bank 16 • References 21 Introduction to Banking Sector Banking is defined as the business of the bank or the occupation of a banker. A bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities. Banks are a fundamental component of the financial system, and are also active players in financial markets. The essential role of a bank is to connect those who have capital (such as investors or depositors), with those who seek capital (such as individuals wanting a loan, or businesses wanting to grow). Banking is generally a highly regulated industry, and government restrictions on financial activities by banks have varied over time and location. The standard activities of a Bank can be defined as:- ...
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...[pic] SYNOPSIS:- COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SBI INTEREST RATE OF HOME LOANS WITH DIFFERENT BANKS A synopsis submitted for the partial Fulfillment of the degree of MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) GUIDED BY: SUBMITTED BY: PROF. PRIYANKA MAHESWARI SANDARBH VYAS MBA III SEM INDEX INTRODUCTION • HOME LOANS • INTEREST RATES OFFERED BY THE BANKS REVIEW OF LITERATURE OBJECTIVE OF STUDY RESEARCH METHODOLOGY • RESEARCH DESIGN • DATA COLLECTION • SAMPLING TECHNIQUE • SAMPLING DESIGN BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION HOME LOANS Home is a dream of a person that shows the quantity of efforts, sacrifices luxuries and above all gathering funds little by little to afford one’s dream. Home is one of the things that everyone one wants to own. Home is a shelter to person where he rests and feels comfortable. Many banks providing home loans whether commercial banks or financial institutions to the people who want to have a home. Home loans work like any other debt. That is, loans are simply specific money that we borrow from a bank, a private lender or some other type of lender. Afterwards, we must repay our debts with interest. However, unlike other types of loans, home loans are different in several respects. Owning a piece of land or property...
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