Loans | Spanish Banks’ Bad Loans Worsen As Recession Bites: Economy

May 20, 2012 – 3:14 am
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More Spanish loans soured in March,fueling concern that the government’s focus on making banksclean up real estate was too narrow as the country’s economyentered a recession. Bad loans as a proportion of total lending jumped to 8.37percent in March, the highest since August 1994 , from a restated8.30 percent in February, according to data published today bythe Bank of Spain . As much as 8.21

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Loans | Banks' Rising Bad Loans Add To Spanish Troubles

May 20, 2012 – 1:15 am
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish banks ‘ bad loans rose in March to their highest in 18 years, underscoring the problems facing the government as it drafts in independent auditors in an attempt to reassure investors it can clean up the sector. The Bank of Spain said bad loans rose to 8.37 percent of banks’ outstanding loans, the highest since August 1994 and up from 8.3 percent in February, which was

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Student Loan | Senate Showdown Over Student Loan Rates Looms

May 19, 2012 – 7:16 am
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Washington (CNN) — With federal student loan interest rates set to double July 1, the Senate failed Tuesday to get enough votes to take up a bill to extend low 3.4% rates for another year.The vote was 52-45 to take up the bill, 8 fewer than the 60 needed to officially start debating the bill. Senate Republicans and Democrats are still negotiating a compromise, and the Senate could vote again

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Student Loans | Student Loans An Obligation That's Impossible To Escape

May 19, 2012 – 6:51 am
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As an obligation that is impossible to escape, nothing is quite as tenacious as student loans. Even with taxes, a statute of limitation requires collection efforts to begin within a certain time or the creditor loses the legal right to collect. But there is no statute of limitations on Student Loans — the loan will follow you from being a senior in college to being a senior in the rest home.In

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Student Loan | Lipscomb Graduate Business Program Finds Innovative Way To Combat Student Loan Debt Crisis By Awarding Full-tuition …

May 19, 2012 – 5:05 am
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– With the student loan debt crisis heating up, Lipscomb University ‘s College of Business has found an innovative solution for prospective graduate business students. According to the Foundation for Economic Education, the total national student debt is nearly $1 trillion with the average college graduate owing more than $25,000 on Student Loans. Universities

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Student Loan | Fitch Quantifies Basis Spread Stresses For U.S. FFELP Student Loan ABS

May 19, 2012 – 4:55 am
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Link to Fitch Ratings ‘ Report: Basis Risk in FFELP ABS Transactions Recent changes to special allowance payment (SAP) calculations for FFELP loans has put basis risk for U.S. student loan ABS in the spotlight, according to Fitch Ratings in a new report. In conjunction with the change, Fitch recently The Basis risk arises in FFELP ABS when there are mismatches of

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Student Loan Forgiveness | The Latest Occupy Impostors

May 19, 2012 – 4:49 am
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Tens of thousands of young people took to parks, streets and banks last fall to demand an end to the laissez-faire political order that permitted financial titans to bankrupt the economy and deny us a chance at finding decent jobs.Half a year later, a collection of young people backed by major foundations and companies like Dell are promoting two new organizations, Campaign for Young America and

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Student Loan Forgiveness | Student Debt

May 19, 2012 – 4:05 am
Student Loan Forgiveness

As a college student, this reform sounds very tempting, but how is this going to affect our country? Obama’s plan is to “eliminate” the “middle man”, which is private loans through bankers; by eliminating the “middle man” this will take the profits from the bankers and put the profit towards lowering interest rates for Student Loans. Confusing? Maybe, but basically the idea of the reform is to

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Student Loan | Fitch Affirms All Bonds Of SLM Student Loan Trust 2003-5

May 19, 2012 – 4:00 am
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fitch Ratings affirms the senior student loan notes at ‘AAAsf’ and the subordinate notes at ‘BBsf’ issued by SLM Student Loan Trust 2003-5. The Rating Outlook on the senior notes, which is tied to the sovereign rating of the U.S. government, remains Negative, while the Rating Outlook on the subordinate note remains Stable. Fitch used its ‘Global structured Finance

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Student Loan Forgiveness | The Learning Network Blog: Guest Post | Teenager Writes About 'Crushing Weight Of College Debt'

May 19, 2012 – 3:18 am
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This week, The Times is publishing a series on student debt that includes articles, video and interactive graphics, as well as an invitation to write in to tell about how student debt has affected your life. On Tuesday, we published a lesson plan full of ideas for using the series in the classroom .Now, we add another resource to our offerings: a personal essay from a high school senior about how

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