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Fed paper flags ‘underappreciated’ risks of private credit

Bloomberg News As banks provide the liquidity that fuels private credit lending — even without originating the loans themselves — researchers at the Federal Reserve say traditional lenders risk being dragged into a financial crisis if defaults among private credit borrowers spike. In a new paper, Boston Fed researchers José L. Fillat, Mattia Landoni, John […]

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Calls for VASP reintroduction come from housing advocates

A consortium of consumer advocacy groups and legislators called for the re-establishment of an expired Department of Veterans Affairs program that kept thousands of service members out of foreclosure.  The National Consumer Law Center criticized the VA for allowing the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase program to lapse without a sufficient replacement. The program, which previously

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New partnership helps banks flag fraud on Google

Google has launched a joint effort with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or FS-ISAC, that will combine the search giant’s threat detection capabilities with FS-ISAC’s network and intelligence sharing to prevent fraud within the financial sector. The program, announced Wednesday, is dubbed the Financial Services branch of Google’s Priority Flagger Program, according

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