C I A L R E P O R T Anatomy of Risk Management Practices in the Mortgage Industry: Lessons for the Future Clifford V. Rossi Anatomy of Risk Management Practices in the Mortgage Industry: Lessons for the Future Clifford V. Rossi Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland May 2010 2 9946 Anatomy of Risk Management Practices in the Mortgage Industry: Lessons for the Future © Research Institute for Housing America May 2010. All rights
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DEFINITION OF SUBPRIME LOANS AND HOW THESE LOANS CREATE THE CRISIS The subprime mortgage crisis was a situation that led to the economic global crisis, which then also led to the recession that began in 2008. Subprime loans are type of loans that are granted to borrowers whose their credit history is not sufficient to get a conventional mortgage which means these loans are offered to people who may have difficulty in maintaining the repayment schedule of conventional loan. These loans offer interest-only
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CASE SUMMARY ANSWER KEY 1. Brief Background and Context New Century Financial Corporation (NCF) was one of the nation’s leading lenders of subprime mortgages during the time period of the overheated US housing market in the early/mid 2000s. The company originated, serviced, sold and securitized huge volumes of subprime mortgages and was especially profitable from 2002 to 2004. NCF was almost singularly focused on growth/volume of new originations with little, if any, counter balance
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situation, mortgage loan and mortgage backed securities market became more popular and bigger. The financial markets’ appetite for mortgage product also resulted in more creative and complex financial products and strategies such as MBS (Mortgage-backed securities), CDO (Collateralized debt obligation), ABCP (Asset-backed commercial paper), Conduits, SIV (Structured investment vehicles). For example, according to the case, the S&L crisis also boosted the securitization of mortgages by two government-sponsored
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started in 2008 has had significant effects on the US and global economy; estimates of the amount of US wealth lost are approximately $14 trillion (Luhby 2009). Various causes of the financial crisis have been cited, including lax regulation over mortgage lending, a growing housing bubble, the rise of derivatives instruments such as collaterized debt obligations, and questionable banking practices. In addition to these and many other reasons, we explain two factors that partially contributed to the
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of work, cannot find full-time work, or have given up looking for work. About four million families have lost their homes to foreclosure and another four and a half million have slipped into the foreclosure process or are seriously behind on their mortgage payments. Nearly 11 trillion in household wealth has vanished, with retirement accounts and life savings swept away. Businesses, large and small, have felt the sting of a deep recession. There is much anger about what has transpired, and justifiably
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references present the cause of the financial crisis to be the “subprime mortgages.” However, subprime mortgages by itself did not cause the housing bubble to implode; many other factors contributed to the implosion. Traditionally, a lending institution, such as bank, would grant a loan based on the capability of the borrower to pay and on his/her ability to guarantee the loan with a fixed asset or collateral. The borrower mortgages the fixed asset to the lending entity, who in turn gains the right
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the bursting of the United States housing bubble, which peaked in approximately 2005–2006. High default rates on "subprime" and adjustable rate mortgages (ARM), began to increase quickly thereafter. An increase in loan incentives such as easy initial terms and a long-term trend of rising housing prices had encouraged borrowers to assume difficult mortgages in the belief they would be able to quickly refinance at more favorable terms. However, once interest rates began to rise and housing prices started
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solution for European investors was to turn to America where they could buy mortgage-backed securities, an investment that was considered safe and that yielded higher returns than government bonds (Fligstein and Habinek, 2011). When the American mortgage market broke down it quickly spread to other countries, and the global financial crisis was a fact. In this paper I will start off by explaining the background for the mortgage crisis in the US. Afterwards I will try to elaborate how this could spread
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It can be argued that one of the initial causes of the crisis is rooted in the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates following the tech bubble burst in the early 2000s. There would have been a massive increase in the availability of capital, creating a rationale for banks to lend to subprime borrowers and reap the profits of charging higher than market interest rates. Consumers then fueled this lending through willingness to pay high interest rates in the anticipation of riding the
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