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...Separately, Pinsent Masons’ David Lancaster has joined the firm as an intellectual property litigation partner in London....
...White & Case has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Peter Mason as a debt finance partner in London....
...While corporations often hire IT consultants to give expert opinion in court cases, individuals can rarely afford experts’ fees....
...“Some of our 15- and 16-year-olds are even having to manage rent and mortgage issues because they are English-speakers and their parents aren’t.”...
...Westpac Banking Corporation this month sold a £500m five-year covered bond at a coupon of just 1 per cent....
...His first big test came in 2005 when Walmart applied for a bank licence from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...Lincoln National Corporation fell 3.8 per cent to $16.70 and Genworth Financial fell 5.6 per cent to $5.56....
...As president of E-Loan, an online mortgage lender created during the late 1990s dotcom boom, he had a front-row seat for one of the great investment bubbles....
...Hearings begin on Tuesday in Congress that will help determine whether the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation are to be split up and part of their operations...
...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is responsible for insuring US bank deposits, for instance, said earlier this week that it might ask lenders to cut principal on mortgages....
...“Other serious concerns stem from the Fed’s regulatory failures – its refusal to police mortgage underwriting or to impose suitability standards on mortgage lenders – and the heavy influence banks have on...
...By May this year, more than 60 per cent of his $132bn fund was in mortgage debt. Mortgage-backed bond prices rose after the US government seized control of the agencies....
...Also, is the UK residential mortgage-backed securities market still active at all?Ian H, Gloucester NB: So far, the prime mortgage market has not been hit that hard....
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