WACHOVIA
In 1879, William Lemly opened Wachovia National Bank in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It grew to become one of the largest banks in the Southeast. In 2006, Wachovia purchase Golden West Financial for approximately $25.5 billion. The purchase was finalized before Wachovia thoroughly examined Golden West's mortgage portfolio. Wachovia entered the mortgage loan market through the Golden West acquisition, and became Wachovia Mortgage. Once in the mortgage market, the number of mortgage loans to individuals drastically increased. Many of the mortgage loans were packaged with variable interest rates. These adjustable-rate mortgages increased the original loan amount, allowing Wachovia's to earn additional revenues from the
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HOME LOAN LEGACY
Wachovia adopted the Pick-A-Payment product, often called option adjustable-rate mortgages(option-ARMs), after it bought Golden West Financial in 2006, which exposed Wachovia to the bigger mortgage loan market. Wachovia didn't get rid of these risky mortgage from its books. "They had plenty of time to sell them, but rather than get rid of the product, they promoted it." said Tony Plath , an associate banking professor at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, in Tom Shean's article How Wachovia came crashing down.
This " Pick-A-Payment" system will allow the customers to make lower payments which didn't even cover the interest on the loan. According to David Mildenberg, the author of Wachovia Moves to Assure Borrowers Understand Loans, " Almost 70 percent of Wachovia's borrowers choose to pay as little as possible." The unpaid portion gets added back to principle, this will lead homeowner farther away from the payoff date. When the loan amount exceeds the value of a home, home owners may stop to pay and the house will go default which can backfire on the bank.
Wachovia was selling series of mortgage loans that customers couldn't afford. The more loans that were approved, the more outside brokers and the bank will make. There was no minimum credit-score requirement for the underwriting process. But many Wachovia mortgage loan customers were suffering paying off their house loans. In the A Charlie Brown Christmas (foreclosure) story
However, hope might be on the horizon for the victims of the mortgage disaster of 2007/2008. Home buyers who were foreclosed upon years ago, or boomerang buyers, are beginning to be eligible to buy homes again. While some feel hope after feeling bamboozled by lenders and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, some feel anxious and fearful of the thought of buying again. Yet there are lessons that have been learned by the mortgage meltdown. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac provided a lesson for the
Pay options were also available allowing the borrowers to choose lower payments and the balance of what you should pay and what you actually paid was added to the loan to have a negative amortization. The introductory low rates were called Teaser Rates. The goal was to make home ownership more affordable for more people. Michael Francis and other brokers in Wall Street knew that some of these loans are bad loans but they didn’t cared because they transferred all these loans to whoever wanted to buy them such as pension funds. They are just the intermediary or the pipeline. These pension funds could only buy AAA mortgage loan. The investors wanted to sell their loans to the pension funds but they needed to be rated AAA by these agencies. Their job was to evaluate the risk of the securities. What was the ethical issue here with the agencies? The riskier BBB looked as good as the triple AAA and they looked much safer than they used to be and they started to look more like a AAA security. So AAA requirement got lower as the market got smart. Moodies, S&P, and Fitch are the three rating agencies. They didn’t give price but based on their ratings they got priced. The suggestion is that these agencies would come with the investment bankers. The business was getting more competitive so you just wanted to get more business or more business than the other agencies. When Anne Arundel was asked if standards lower she
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It is accepted as a popular alternative and the lenders are finding new ways to customise the loan deals.
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Countrywide’s logic in thinking that originating loans for people with poor credit ratings would yield positive results because it gave them an opportunity to get their credit issues fixed. The subprime loans came with many options for people. Some options were the adjustable rate mortgage use to pay low introductory rates and the balloon payment which allowed people to pay only the interest on the loan for the first few years and then pay off the principle or sell their home when the life of the loan expired (Fraedrich, Ferrell, Jackson, 2013).
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1. What are the two ways Countrywide – or any mortgage lender - made money?
The logic behind Countrywide’s initial thinking of offering people loans with poor credit ratings was the ease of access to persuade the consumer. They believed they could initially sell a product that was too good to be true, to people who normally could not achieve this because of their financial status in society. This is a great marketing pitch because it appealed to a different kind of consumer for different reasons. “Corporate culture has been associated with a company’s success or failure and some cultures are so strong that to outsiders they come to represent the character of the entire organization” (Ferrell, et al. 2013, pg. 184). On one hand the people getting access to the subprime loans were noticed for what they did not have instead
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