2/14/2008 - Avoiding Predatory Lending Practices, with Dave Pesch, Housing Counseling Programs Manager at St. Martin’s Center in Erie, PA and Maggie Schuetz, Staff Attorney with Community Justice Project, Pittsburgh, PA. …
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Anna Brown, who has comforted and counseled scores of homeless kids, has run out of room and money. Over the years, Brown fed, clothes and nurtured all her sons’ troubled friends.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed Sallie Mae seeking information about a direct-to-consumer lending product, the student loan company said on Friday.
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Last December I posted about a November 2007 new Congressional Research Service (CRS) primer on predatory lending HERE. There is a now a new January 7,2008 update of this primer from CRS available HERE.
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General Description Provide administrative support to Commercial Loan Officers including but are not limited to completing and monitoring credit files to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, and Senior Loan Committee provisions …
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ACORN (The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods) is sponsoring a free renovation lending workshop that will explain all of the financial tools you would need for the renovation of a old house. The workshop will be held on …
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Wiseclerk blogs about the person-to-person industry, specifically about our Lending Club’s milestone of $10M in loans.
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Which normal service will the banks resume? Gold Rises to Record on Weak Dollar. Treasurys fall on mortgage relief hopes. Bernanke brings bad news to Congress. New Home Sales Drop. Fannie Mae posts $3.6 billion loss.
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Some news from p2p lending in Asian markets:. Chinese PPdai.com (see earlier coverage) says it has received a first round of funding from Essentia Private equity. The amount was not disclosed. On February 27th, Zopa’s managing director …
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P2P Lending service Lendingclub.com, which launched last May, today surpasses 10 million US$ in loans. While the total amount is still much lower then the loan volume of competitor Prosper.com (currently over 120 million US$ loan …
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