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Prepayment penalties might go away

Here at Household - HSBC Watch we receive complaints every day. Some involve pre-payment penalties on home loans that trap the buyer, preventing refinancing or otherwise putting the buyer upside down in the home. That may soon change according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

“Although the high rate of delinquency has a number […]

HSBC must define “exotic” and “high cost”

With no end in sight to the turbulence in the housing and financial markets, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday morning that it would issue new lending rules next week to restrict exotic mortgages and high-cost loans for people with weak credit. We want to know what the […]