Subprime lending was one of the main drivers of the financial crisis that fueled the Great Recession. In the years leading up to the economic meltdown, lenders approved many subprime mortgages ...

The United States subprime mortgage crisis will not peak until 2009, says rating agency Standard and Poor’s, adding it also underestimated the extent of fraud in the industry.

The start of a new year often brings jokes about crystal balls, but with the arrival of 2008, many investors are ruefully saying they don’t need fortune-telling gimmicks.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the banking watchdog created after the subprime mortgage meltdown and the 2008 global financial crisis, has been thrown into chaos as the Trump ...

I am not a crook! New research suggests that "predatory lending" — the buzzword villain of the financial crisis — may have only played a small part in the subprime lending crisis.

Analysts point to four key differences"For one, the magnitude of the subprime mortgage problem in 2007 was much larger with total mortgage debt outstanding rising $5-trillion from 2002 to 2007 ...

The crisis began with the bursting of the United States housing bubble and high default rates on "subprime" and adjustable rate mortgages (ARM), beginning in approximately 2005–2006.

The housing market in the United States is currently in a precarious position, and could even lead to a major recession crisis like that of 2006, feel industry experts. Who is Nick Gerli?

For their PIGS-related impact to reach the same scale for the world's banks as the subprime crisis, they would have to write down an unfathomable 89 per cent of their PIGS exposure, Mr. Lapointe said.