Archive for 'securities fraud' Category
Mar 22, 2010

SEE The Economics and Incentives of Yield Spread Premiums and Credit Default Swaps March 23, 2010: Editor’s Note: The YSP/CDS paper is intentionally oversimplified in order to demonstrate the underlying economics of securitization as it was employed in the last decade. To be clear, there are several things I was required to do in order […]

Mar 22, 2010

Bear in mind now, that underneath this all are subprime mortgage loans and pool of subprime mortgage loans in which only eight percent have to go bad for the whole CDO to be worth zero. NPR Interveiw with Lewis Author Submitted by Ron Ryan, Esq. (Tucson) with the following comment: The story broke on 60 […]

Mar 20, 2010

The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market — JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. — account for 97 percent of the notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry [$605 trillion], according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Goldman Sachs Demands […]

Mar 20, 2010

David Johnson, Commission No. 1689603, Expiration date 08/25/2010, Deutsche Bank National Trust Campany, 1761 East St Andrew Place, Santa Ana CA 92705.  Current status is Qualified. Tuan Quach, Commission No. 1838344, Expiration date 02/26/2013, Deutsche Bank National Trust Co, 1761 East St Andrew Place, Santa Ana CA 92705.  Current status is Qualified.

Mar 20, 2010

BofA Title claims BofA Wants $535M From Title Insurers By DAN MCCUE CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CN) – Bank of America claims mortgage insurers owe it more than $535 million for losses it suffered when the housing bubble burst. BofA, which bought the poster boy of the subprime lending fiasco, Countrywide Financial, 2 years ago, says title […]

Mar 19, 2010

With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any […]

Mar 18, 2010

Vargas_MTD_Tentative1 Judge Buford in Bankruptcy Court has no problem seeing the real issues. Here he is again stating that MERS has no standing and that MERS is confused as to whether it is acting in is own behalf or as agent for the note holder. He further makes it clear that the loan is not […]

Mar 18, 2010

“(T)he differences between the values ascribed to these properties and the prices at which the properties were sold in foreclosure are significantly greater than the declines in house prices in the same geographical areas over the same periods,” Editor’s Comment: BINGO! Use this complaint for both discovery and as a pleading guide. Send me a […]