New Orleans The bleeding edge hope for technology in handling finance is often seen as Africa and more specifically Kenya and very pointedly mobile phones. To the degree a mobile phone system could obviate having bank accounts and ease the problems and costs of money transfer for remittances, this could be a good news except …
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Bank’s Hustling AGs and Consumers on Second Mortgages
New Orleans Way back in the New York Times business section in sort of a snarky article by a ProPublica report (a nonprofit NYT outsourcer) a dangerous curtain was raised on the supposedly tough negotiations between the state attorneys general and the big banks about mortgage loan modifications. Seems on an okey-doke, wink-and-a-nod, the deal …
More Mess on Securitization Foreclosures
New Orleans The top court in Massachusetts has now served notice on more pervasive foreclosure fraud in Wall Street’s securitization pools. The court turned back two foreclosures as nothing more than grave dancing by US Bancorp and Wells Fargo, since they could not prove that they actually owned the title when they pulled the plug …