subprime loan

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subprime
adjective
uk
/ˌsʌbˈpraɪm/us
/ˌsʌbˈpraɪm/
finance & economicsspecialized
used to describe the practice of lending money, especially to buy a house, to people who may not be able to pay ...
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loan
noun
uk
/ləʊn/us
/loʊn/
an amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge ...
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He privately described thesubprimeloanmavericks of the 1990s as' crooks'.
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The individual who took out asubprimeloanis probably not in a position to buy a house now, regardless of how low the interest rates are.
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The crisis caused by subprime loans (high-risk housing credit) has shown that borrowers have been kept too much in the dark.
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Subprime loans targeted at vulnerable and unsophisticated homeowners often lead to foreclosure, and those victims more often fall to equity stripping scams.
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In recent years while subprime loans were not sought out by borrowers, brokers and telemarketers actively pushed them.
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At the end of the second quarter of 2007, more than 900,000 subprime loans were at least 30 days delinquent.
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One reason for this is that the majority of these people have borrowed with risky subprime loans.
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Subprime loans have a higher risk of default than loans to prime borrowers.
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In 2007, 40% of all subprime loans resulted from automated underwriting.
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Innovation has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans and niche credit programs for immigrants.
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States are authorized to refinance subprime loans using mortgage revenue bonds.
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Instead, they suggest fair value only communicated the effects of poor decisions, such as subprime loans.
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Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans a proxy for subprime loans had any connection to the law.
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Subprime loans are loans to borrowers displaying one or more of these characteristics at the time of origination or purchase.
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Because subprime loans have such high repayment risk, the origination of large volumes of subprime loans by thrift institutions or commercial banks was not possible without securitization.
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