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Subprime Crisis Exposes Deficiencies in Risk Management Among Financial Institutions Globally

New TowerGroup Research Explores 'Multifunctional Integration' as the Positive Side of Risk NEEDHAM, Mass., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The recent crisis in the subprime lending...

Massachusetts Awarded $3.2 Million for Affordable Housing

Amherst, Boston, Haverhill, Hull, Plymouth, and Worcester Initiatives Will Create 252 Rental and Ownership Units BOSTON, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank...

RISI Predicts Housing Affordability To Improve 15% By Early 2008

BOSTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced that the RISI Housing Affordability Index...

Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention

Governor Patrick’s five point foreclosure prevention plan is designed to keep people in their homes and stabilize neighborhoods across the Commonwealth: Neighborhood Stabilization Pilot...

ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTHA COAKLEY ISSUES FINAL MORTGAGE BROKER AND LENDER REGULATIONS

New Regulations Will Ban Unfair or Deceptive Lending Practices That Contributed to Foreclosure Crisis BOSTON - Today, Attorney General Martha Coakley filed finalized regulations with the...

TowerGroup: Subprime Lending Meltdown Fuels Risk and Opportunity for Creditors

NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The effect of the subprime mortgage meltdown continues to radiate out across the credit markets. Alan Greenspan ,...

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AG Healey Secures $2 Million in Restitution for 20,000 Massachusetts Homeowners...

One of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers will pay $2 million in restitution to resolve allegations that it violated state law and committed unfair and deceptive practices by charging Massachusetts homeowners for unnecessary fees and overpriced force-placed insurance policies, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today