FDIC sees some progress on modifying subprime loans
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho  - Some progress is being made to modify home loans to borrowers with poor credit histories but more work by regulators and industry is needed, a senior U.S. banking regulator said on Thursday.
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Fed moves don't always mean lower rates for borrowers.
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The US Federal Reserve will take another small step this week toward raising interest rates to more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.
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Less than a month after posting a hefty drop in quarterly earnings, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle agreed yesterday with its regulator on steps to improve its performance.
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Bank regulators tightened standards for mortgage lending on Friday in a bid to curtail risky practices that have been blamed for a record level of foreclosures.
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The FBI's investigation of 14  corporations in a crackdown on improper subprime lending could  expand to other companies, but the complex probes may take some  time before any charges are brought, a federal law enforcement  official said on Wednesday.
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A tsunami of interest rate increases on adjustable-rate mortgages is coming, meaning that the worst of the subprime lending fiasco is far from over.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve will take  another small step this week toward raising interest rates to  more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that  allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.
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People taking out home mortgages may gain new protections soon against shady lending practices as the Federal Reserve seeks to back even the riskiest borrowers, already hit hardest by the housing and credit crunches.
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Washington Mutual Inc. , one of the largest U.S. mortgage lenders, on Friday said improved underwriting standards have led to a reduction in the number of new subprime mortgages going into default quickly.
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Investors shouldn't be writing off banks quite yet.
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Earnings statement reveals the consumer lender is on the right track.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson  said on Wednesday a recovery in the subprime mortgage market  will be slowed by a wave of interest rate resets and urged  lenders to help troubled borrowers.
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Lenders will have to confirm that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making a loan under protections proposed by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, following defaults and losses on U.S. subprime mortgages this year.
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Commercial banks sought slightly more funds than were available Tuesday in a three-month offer of cash made under a special refinancing arrangement announced last week, the Bank of England said.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday will propose a much stricter set of rules for mortgage lenders as part of the central bank's effort to avert abusive lending.
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Many U.S. banks have made it harder for creditworthy borrowers to obtain a mortgage, according to a Federal Reserve survey released yesterday that underscored the spread of the credit crisis.