Credit Risk News

Funding Options for Bad Credit Risks 
If your credit score is holding you back from landing startup capital, you’ll appreciate these tips for finding the funding you need. August 07, 2006 By Asheesh Advani

Credit Repair: Beyond the Fair Credit Reporting Act 
(ARA) - Bad credit can happen to good people. On a day-to-day basis, you can’t control all the factors that influence your credit score. What’s more, credit reports often contain errors.

Reuters Canada Business Summary 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street may encounter some turbulence this week, with Iran’s nuclear dispute with the West poised to come to a head and the latest earnings reporting season all but done.

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Coast progress frustrating 
It is a strange place at times, a world where stealing piping and electrical wiring is commonplace, where contractors are as precious as gold and land records are in hot demand.

Bad credit? No credit? Ford doesn’t care with new 0-72 loans 
Facing the ignominy of huge dealer inventory and falling behind Toyota for 2nd place in July sales, Ford has decided to let anybody with a pulse finance one of its cars. Well, you do have to have some credit, but Ford is lowering the bar in this new

2004 Toyota Celica GTS from North America 
What things have gone wrong with the car? My concern is with the fact that Toyota Canada is reported to be so exceptional with customer service. My experience has been the contrary. The Celica GTS has next to no low-end torque and Toyota offers no aftermarket parts to up the ante.

2005 Subaru Impreza WRX from North America 
Its pretty refreshing to see people that are realistic about their cars and what they can and can’t do. I just got done paying for a mustang cobra and have been thinking about buying a quick import that’s not going to kill me on gas.

Real estate sales return to more normal levels
Orlando Sentinel - Someone with a poor credit score might be looking at 8 percent or more right now; that 8 percent as a barrier would be for those with the best credit. Q: In the early 1980s, when mortgage rates were sky high, people camped out overnight to get 13

Liz’s Credit Score Quiz
nbc4.com - THAT’S WHY A POOR CREDIT SCORE CAN HURT YOU IN MANY WAYS WITH HOME INSURERS, MORTGAGE LENDERS, CREDIT CARD COMPANIES, CELL PHONE COMPANIES, ELECTRIC UTILITIES, AND LANDLORDS. ALL LOOK AT CREDIT SCORES. HERE’S THE NEXT QUESTION. Under which

We can all be bankers now
Daily Telegraph - Zopa is a reasonable option for someone with a very good credit record to check out what someone on Zopa is willing to lend them. But for anyone with a poor credit history, I would never recommend that they apply to Zopa as it will simply leave an

Easy to resell, prepaid phones frustrate carriers
Arlington Heights Daily Herald - Prepaid phones, popular with low-income consumers and those with poor credit, allow users to sign up for pay-as-you-go service where they are given a balance of airtime minutes, rather than paying monthly bills. Customers don t need to sign

Credit Fixes That Can Fix You
KSAT 12 - Catherine Williams, president of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Chicago, likens bad credit to wrinkles, and credit-repair organizations to those wrinkle removers you see advertised in slick magazines. “It can’t make the wrinkles go

Living The Loofah Life, And Loving It
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A Matter Of Lifestyle
Local 6 - Insurers worry that people with bad credit or a bankruptcy in their past might not pay their insurance premiums, says Termassistant.com’s Place. And since it takes an insurance company roughly five or six years to break even on the underwriting

Local Transmission Company Rides Information Superhighway To Growth
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Soured loan raises SunTrust questions
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Granted, SunTrust is the nation s ninth-largest financial company, is extremely profitable and won t fail because of a bad credit of that size. But the loan which SunTrust said could go bad because the borrower lost a big customer is large

Motorcycle Safety Foundation Statement on National Highway Traffic
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Renault Introduces The New Trafic Passenger And Trafic Generation: For
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Debts may hinder your job opportunities
Daily Breeze - I tried debt counseling, but because I have so much debt, I can’t even make the minimum payment they suggested. I want to file bankruptcy, but don’t have the money necessary to start that process. I’m worried that my bad credit will prevent me from

Comprehensive Improvements To Land Rover’s Iconic Defender For 2007
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Air Force awards $212M deal
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African Americans With Bad Credit Can Still Get a Mortgage to Buy …
BlackNews.com (press release), CA - Aug 2, 2006By John R. Blakefield. Sub prime lenders generally give loans to even the highest of risk cases. They look at the same information …

Barclays Plagued by Bad Credit Costs While Net Income Rises
BankNet 360, NY - Aug 3, 2006London-based Barclays PLC reported a 25% increase in net profit during the first half of 2006 compared with first half of 2005. …

Stated-income loans can pose risks
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Consumer Lawsuits Against Credit Bureaus Are Multiplying
Law.com (subscription), CA - Aug 15, 2006… There are also those who learn about bad credit the hard way: They go to buy a house or a car, and they are denied a loan or a lower interest rate because of a …

Liz’s Credit Score Quiz
nbc4.com - THAT’S WHY A POOR CREDIT SCORE CAN HURT YOU IN MANY WAYS WITH HOME INSURERS, MORTGAGE LENDERS, CREDIT CARD COMPANIES, CELL PHONE COMPANIES, ELECTRIC UTILITIES, AND LANDLORDS. ALL LOOK AT CREDIT SCORES. HERE’S THE NEXT QUESTION. Under which

Gupton group guilty
Henderson Daily Dispatch - Many Gupton clients were poor credit risks and otherwise might not have qualified for a loan - and thus might not have bought homes. In one tactic featured prominently in the indictments, the same mobile home was used for trade-in credit for nine

Preferring the retirement plan
Portsmouth Herald - 27.7 Percentage of available credit used for people with a credit score less than 660 (which is a poor credit rating). 62 Percentage of store managers who say they feel that retail corporate headquarters assign stores too much work, according to a

Senator Schumer takes on rent-to-own industry
Capital News 9 - More than half of rent-to-own customers have a high school diploma or less, yearly incomes of $25,000 or less and a poor credit rating or no rating at all. Schumer said the stores charge excessive interest rates, advertise misleading information, and

Credit Challenged Car Buyers Find Help Online (Hornell Evening Tribune)
(ARA) - Eighty percent of all Americans have at least one blemish on their credit reports. And a third of all consumers have credit scores so bad that they may have difficulty securing a car loan.

Standard & Poor’s Announces the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index Rebalancing Report for August 2006 (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Standard & Poor’s has completed the monthly rebalancing of the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index. According to index methodology, the universe of Canadian bonds is exhaustively reviewed to reflect changes in par amount and term to existing index constituents.

Possible deals at Ford not enough: analysts - MSN Money
Calgary SunPossible deals at Ford not enough: analystsMSN Money - Aug 25, 2006… it's selling the luxury brands or bringing Carlos Ghosn in — serving as a panacea for Ford's near-term challenges," Standard & Poor's credit analyst Gregg … Ford Considers Selling a Stake in Its Finance Unit, Person Says Bloombergall 86 news articles

Ford targets US customers with poor credit histories - MSN Money
Ford targets US customers with poor credit historiesMSN Money - Aug 23, 2006Ford will target consumers with impaired credit histories in a renewed drive to bring down swollen inventories of 2006 cars and trucks. …

Lesson 4: Avoiding Setbacks
Motley Fool - From the lender’s perspective, it removes a lot of the bad credit risk from the deal. The down side to secured loans, though, is that if you hit an extended rough spot and default on the loan, you can literally lose your stuff. Even bankruptcy laws

Automation Alley Technology Center Collaborates To Bring Automotive
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‘Bad water’ sales pitch an all-too-common scam
Miami Herald - It was approved but, because of my bad credit, the interest rate went from 18 to 28 percent, which we couldn’t afford. My wife and I decided we didn’t want the system and the next day we called to tell them to take it out. A woman said it would be no

Credit scores (Financial Times)
Ever been refused a credit card and don t know why? It could be one of a number of details about your financial history that are tracked and recorded by credit reference agencies to help lenders assess you for credit.