Archive for July, 2009
A.I.G. Sells Mortgage-Backed Paper to Credit Suisse (New York Times)
By admin on July 15th, 2009
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American International Group s consumer lender will receive as much as $975 million selling mortgage-backed certificates to Credit Suisse Group after losing access to its usual sources of funding, Bloomberg News reported.
Capital One credit card defaults rise in June (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Capital One Financial Corp’s U.S. credit card defaults rose in June as unemployment increased and Americans struggled to pay their debts, but the figures were better than expected and the company’s shares rose 3.2 percent.
CIT customers reportedly draw down credit lines (Market Watch)
CIT Group Inc.’s precarious situation deteriorates further as customers reportedly draw down more than $750 million from their credit lines.
Egg launches next-generation credit card (Thaipr.net)
By admin on July 13th, 2009
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Egg, the internet bank, is launching a new credit card offering a unique package of rewards and benefits for people who want to get the most out of their card. The Egg Money World MasterCard will cost
Fixed-Rate Credit Cards May Vanish (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
Could fixed-rate credit cards soon be a thing of the past? Some companies have already notified cardholders about converting fixed rates to a variable rate tied to the prime rate.
On Wall Street: Credit crisis is far from over (Financial Times)
By admin on July 13th, 2009
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Looking for a souvenir of the credit crisis? The Museum of American Finance, located on Wall Street, sells a set of five posters from its credit crisis exhibit.
Student debt consolidation
College is a time when a student is thinking about the next step. They are often excited, a little fearful, and there is a lot they are unsure of regarding finances and being an adult. Many students try to get as many scholarships as possible in the year before they attend a university, but sometimes it doesn’t work and these students need to see about other financial assistance. One of the many options students go with, are student loans. As there are over a hundred different student loan companies it is quite easy to research for the best student loan as well as obtain one with ease. At the end of their college career there is a new problem. The student must pay back all of the loans they ever took out, with interest. The best thing a student can do is go for student debt consolidation; however you do need to be wary of a deal that sounds too good to be true. There are a few ways that student debt consolidation will work on student loans. First any student loan that is not through the government will be a separate consolidation with most student debt consolidation companies. The fact is any student loan through Student Loan Finance Corporation or the US Department of Education can be consolidated through the federal government program, with a significantly lower rate than personal loan student debt consolidation. You will also find out that any private or personal student loan, not obtained through the federal government cannot be consolidate with the government program. Here is an example of what I mean: A student decided that a loan through the state they lived in would be more beneficial because the student could get a larger amount than what the federal government student loan program was offering; however for the first two years this student had loans through the federal government. At the end of the student’s four years this person decided to consolidate all of the loans. The federal government student debt consolidation program would only offer the US Department of Education Loan and the Student Loan Finance Corporation Loan to be consolidated, telling the student that the other loans through the state were considered private loans. Therefore this student still has two student loan payments, one for the federal government loans and one for all other loans including the state student loans. The reason behind this decision was the 8% interest on the state student loans and the 2.5% interest on the government student loans. The student would have ended up paying more for the government student loans if this person consolidated into one monthly payment.
Savings Game: New credit card legislation could hurt users who pay in full each month (The Salt Lake Tribune)
By admin on July 12th, 2009
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If you have $10,000 in credit card debt at 18 percent interest and send just the minimum payment of 2.5 percent of the balance each month, it would take you more than 30 years to pay it all off.
T.H.P. given revolving line of credit (The Mercury)
Good news for some T.H.P. homebuyers: on Thursday, attorneys for T.H. Properties filed a motion that would provide the bankrupt developer a revolving line of credit of up to $3 million to complete homes in progress in six developments: Barton Ridge, Codington View, Kingston Hill Phase III, Kingston Hill Phase IV, Northgate Phase I and Whitfield Estates.
Credit card cheat arrested (Calcutta News)
A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly cheating more than 75 credit card holders of more than Rs.4 crore, police said Saturday. ‘Ravi Kumar Sindhu, a resident of Paharganj area, was arrested from Sarojini Nagar area of south Delhi Wednesday.
Ex-bank staffer stole Rs 4cr through credit card scam (The Times of India)
By admin on July 12th, 2009
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NEW DELHI: It’s a credit card scam involving customers of many banks which has set alarm bells ringing across NCR. The modus operandi was quite simple but audacious and went undetected for about a year, causing an estimated loss of up to Rs 4 crore, according to the cops.