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The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
E-Trade logo from February 3, 2008, to December 31, 2021. In 1982, physicist William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, California, with $15,000 in capital. In 1983, it launched its first trade via a Compuserve network. In 1992, Porter and Newcomb founded E-Trade and made electronic trading available to individual ...
What is the Truth in Lending Act? The Truth in Lending Act (TILA) is a federal law that aims to promote transparency and protect consumers in credit transactions.
An FNMA loan, aka a conforming loan or Fannie Mae-backed mortgage, is a loan or mortgage that has been sold to the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA, or Fannie Mae) — or one that meets ...
A government-backed loan is a loan subsidized by the government, also known in the United States as a Federal Direct Loan, which protects lenders against defaults on payments, thus making it a lot easier for lenders to offer potential borrowers lower interest rates.
Adjustable rate mortgage or ARM - A mortgage where the interest rate adjusts relative to a specified index + margin. E.g. COFI, LIBOR etc.; Hybrid ARM - An adjustable rate mortgage where the initial 'start' rate is fixed for some portion of time (3,5,7, or 10 years) thereafter the interest rate adjusts (yearly or bi-annually) based on the sum of a specified index + margin.
The secondary mortgage market is a financial marketplace, where investors buy and sell bundled packages consisting of many individual loans — called mortgage-backed securities.
The government assumed control of the bank's £50 billion mortgage and loan portfolio, while its deposit and branch network were sold to Spain's Banco Santander. [17] In October 2008, the Australian government made A$4 billion available to nonbank lenders unable to issue new loans.