US household debt hits record high: What’s driving the surge and are Americans struggling to repay?US household debt soared to a record high of $18.04 trillion in Q4 2024,, driven by surging credit card balances. While overall debt manage...
20 Feb, 2025, 12.53 AM IST
Hazard lights are flashing from one corner on US economy. It's about loans againUS economy risks: Delinquencies in the $1.6 trillion US auto lending market are rising, with loans from 2022 and 2023 performing below expe...
02 Oct, 2024, 10.23 AM IST
Fintech lenders tighten lending standards, bolstering debt financingUS financial technology companies are tightening their lending standards, a move that has bolstered their access to debt financing from Wal...
19 Jul, 2023, 10.24 PM IST
Fintech lenders tighten lending standards, bolstering debt financingFintechs like Upstart, Affirm and OneMain Financial say they are boosting credit quality, in another example of how lenders have been pulli...
19 Jul, 2023, 09.38 PM IST
Consumer loans growing but some vintage loans indicate higher risk: CIBILCredit balances for consumer loan products grew 17.1% y-o-y in the quarter ended June 2019 compared to 23.5% a year earlier led by a more t...
30 Oct, 2019, 05.10 PM IST
Unlike in 2007, there’s cautionNotional amount of CDS rose to a high of more than $60 trillion by 2007 from about a trillion at the turn of the century.
10 Sep, 2018, 10.24 AM IST
Unlike in 2007, there’s cautionThat reduced the capital the bank had to keep and would be paid by the European Bank if Exxon defaulted.
10 Sep, 2018, 08.52 AM IST
India’s subprime mortgage mania can quickly turn to panicThe country’s largest mortgage provider, Housing Development Finance Corp, says one in five of its customers is eligible as an affordable-h...
19 Jun, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
America’s debt is surging, and some of the riskiest borrowers are struggling to pay backSubprime auto lending has attracted specialty lenders, such as Santander Consumer USA.
17 Nov, 2017, 09.36 AM IST
US subprime auto loan losses reach highest level since the 2008 crisisWith losses increasing, investors in bonds backed by car loans are demanding higher returns, as reflected by yields, on their securities.
13 Mar, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Banks’ 100% finance for cars trigger bad loan fearsAxis Bank and HDFC Bank give 100% financing for cars while Kotak Mahindra Bank gives 95% finance to cars. Some banks also fund the car insu...
25 Jun, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Fed rolls second stimulus of over $800 bn
Fed said the purchases of mortgages would take place over a number of months. BSE Gainers: A, B | NSE Gainers | Losers: BSE( A, B) | NSE | ...
25 Nov, 2008, 07.23 PM IST
- S&P assigns Australian Motor Finance AVERAGE svcr ranking
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today assigned an 'AVERAGE' subprime auto loan servicer ranking and 'Stable' outlook to Australian Motor...
08 Sep, 2008, 07.31 AM IST
- SBI interest rates set to come down
In a move that will provide some relief to millions of home loan customers and corporates across the country, State Bank of India (SBI) has...
12 Feb, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Banks face rising defaults from retail loan borrowers
A Crisil report states that gross NPAs in retail loans are set to rise to 4% over the next 2 years from 2.7% as of March 2007. Tips to plan...
09 Jan, 2008, 12.20 PM IST
- 'Crunch' time for the Grand Old Party in US
Lending hasn't collapsed in part because the subprime losses, though large in billions, are still small compared with the financial system'...
22 Nov, 2007, 03.40 AM IST
- Finance cos funding delinquent accounts to dress up books
Lenders of the finance companies and arms of banking groups are ‘funding’ delinquent accounts to window-dress their books.
28 Aug, 2007, 03.38 AM IST