Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions, Government
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Commercial real estate lending become so tough that it caused closing of innumerable banks in the last few years; and more banks collapsing, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is contemplating the new way inevitably, to bundle out the mortgages on hard-to-value commercial assets of these failed banks and sell them back to the private sector [...]
Posted by Istvan Fekete
Financial Institutions
Monday, September 27th, 2010
August brought another $3.1 billion in new delinquencies nationwide, which lead to a 23 basis point increase from July. According to recent studies Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities delinquencies passed the 8% milestone. This comes as a result of recent default of loans that worth more than $100 million. Fitch Ratings talks about reaching 8.48%, another [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
There seems to be some relief in the Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities (CMBS) market in the month of July – reason: nearly 50 percent of borrowers of commercial loans, which are securitized debts, have met their balloon payments on time successfully, as reported by authentic sources. This is an increase by over 11 percent from the [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The spurt in commercial property loan is only 3 months old and there is no significant change, when compared to year-over-year figures. This is the result of the Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations conducted by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Normally commercial loans are made best use of by Life Insurers; Commercial Market [...]
Posted by Amitesh Kumar
Financial Institutions
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Lending banks extending financial support for commercial property projects are visibly adopting a different technique, unlike residential properties. If a home owner defaults in repayment consecutively for 3 months, the mortgage lending banks swing into action. Their mortgage loan department is geared up to follow the subject with the concerned delinquent and would not stop [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Economic Updates, Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
While the precise measures for regulation are still being debated, one of the foremost considerations in the United States appears to be the participation of banks in the interests of hedge funds and private equity consortiums. Clearly outside the traditional activity of a bank, these devices offer commercial banks the opportunity to generate revenue and [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
The past three years has seen the global economy suffer a greater credit crisis than in the Florentine markets of the 12th Century. Certainly the capital markets are still the supreme bastion of wealth in a developed world economy, however in recent times wealth has changed hands from cyclical private wealth investors to others. Circumstances [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions, Government
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The proposition made by some that regulation of the finance industry was already in place through banking regulators standards and SEC reporting standards has some credence due to its truth. However, when banking disclosure requirements are creatures of statute, it is yet a remote manner in which the Federal government has subsidized the capital costs [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
The commercial short sale may well be the most suitable alternative to commercial foreclosure however, things are not as they seem. With the spectacular weakness in the US property market over the past 4 years, and the demise of the sub-prime mortgage market, regulation has emerged as the voice of economic reason into the future. [...]
Posted by Arnold Balthazaar
Financial Institutions
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
In Pinnel’s Case, an foundational contract law decision from 1604, it was decided that part payment of a debt was in no way commensurate with full satisfaction of the debt, but that when some other detriment was offered in consideration along with the part payment, then the agreement may be considered a negotiation and fresh [...]