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If you want to find the most important bank in USA, go to Charlotte, N.C. to Bank of America, which posses the highest assets.
Everyone knows about Countrywide Financial - the organization that obtained a loan of more then four billions US dollars, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America financed this 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. Both sides had their own advantages in this purchase operation - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
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It is important to mention, that this transaction let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home mortgages in the United States. The situation described is only one example out of great number of cases, when bank wins substantial advantages after financing problem loans. These loans are also called subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of trouble loans were checked. Normally as a source of money for mortgages banks use the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial has another scheme for its operations, it operates on Wall Street as a borrower, so it gets amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these loans on secondary market.
These transactions are held again and again, which enables the lenders and borrowers get their profit. This cycle worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America received in its property over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
More over Bank of America posseses 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into account that a lot of borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this input of money is very profitable deal for Countrywide Financial executives.
The next step of BofA will give a possibility around 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts keep their real estate. It will happen as a result of modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to happen during the next two years. A great amount of borrowers with bad debts leads to increase of Countrywide foreclosure properties amount.
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