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If we compare the assets of banks, then we can say, that the greatest bank is Bank of America.
A lot of people have heard about Countrywide Financial - the trouble lender that obtained a loan of more then 4,1 billions dollars, and finally became a reason for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America provided the loan for Countrywide Financial.
Finally in summer 2008 BofA became an official owner of this huge bank and turned into the most powerful mortgage lender in the USA. It was successful operation - on one hand Countrywide avoided the total financial collapse, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
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Take into account, that this transaction let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home mortgages in the United States. The transaction described above is simply one example out of a number of cases, when organisation gets substantial advantages after creating trouble loans. Such kind of loans are also known as subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all problem lenders were investigated. Normally as a source of money for mortgages banks use the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial acts in different way, it borrows money on the Wall Street, so it gets amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home mortgage loans on secondary market.
These transactions are held over and over, which gives a chance the investors and borrowers get their profit. This scenario worked without problems until we faced the mortgage crisis. Countrywide Financial got under the control of Bank of America, more over the BofA got under its control around 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
Also Bank of America unites 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres situated all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that a number of borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this input of money is very successful transaction for Countrywide Financial executives.
In the nearest plans of BofA is to take a decision which will give a chance around 260 thousand borrowers with problem loans keep their houses. It will happen owing to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is supposed to to be realized during the next two years. A big number of clients with problem loans leads to increase of Countrywide REO amount.
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