Posted on 25 August 2009
Tags: Bank of America, borrowers, Citigroup, CitiMortgage, economy, foreclosures, HAMP, Home Affordable Modification Program, home prices, homeowners, inventories, JPMorgan Chase & Co, modification, Mortgage, President Barack Obama, Recession, report, U.S. Treasury, US housing market
In response to the U.S. Treasury’s call to speed the process and help prevent foreclosures, Citigroup Inc has significantly boosted its mortgage modification offers this month.
In a report released on Tuesday, CitiMortgage said that it has already helped 108,000 homeowners in the last quarter to avoid potential foreclosure, a rise of nearly 30 percent over the previous period.
It has participated fully in the President Barack Obama’s Home Affordable Modification Program, known as HAMP, to ease loan terms for up to 4 million borrowers.
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Posted on 18 August 2009
Tags: Banks, borrowers, capital expenditures, central bank, credit, creditworthiness, dollars, domestic banks, emergency lending program, financial crisis, financial markets, government, government studies, Great Depression, households, inventories, liquidity, Loans, Mortgage, Prime mortgages, public sector, U.S. Federal Reserve, US demand, US Treasury Department
According to the central bank and government studies, the US demand for loans fell in the second quarter for every major category bar prime residential mortgages due to tightened credit standards set by the banks making the borrowers cautious.
The US Federal Reserve observed in its quarterly survey of senior loan officers, conducted between July 14 and July 28, that the percentage of banks that tightened loan standards for business and households was slightly lower than in the first quarter.
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