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The biggest US bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
A lot of people have heard about Countrywide Financial - the financial institution that obtained a loan of more then 4 billions US dollars, and finally caused for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America invested the money in stock capital of Countrywide Financial.
As a result of this financial operation the bank of America became an owner of the greatest consumer bank all over United States. Both sides had their own advantages in this purchase operation - on one hand Countrywide managed to continue its existance within the other institution, on the other hand Bank of America got more power as a financial institution.
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Just imagine, that this acquisition let the BofA have its own part in 25% of mortgage home loans in the America. The situation described is just one example out of great number of cases, when financial institution gets huge advantages after creating trouble loans. These loans are also called subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of trouble loans were investigated. The main source of financial resources for loans is the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial acts in different way, it takes loans on the Wall Street, so it receives amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and after all sell these home loans on mortgage market.
These transactions are held again and again, which enables the investors and borrowers get their profit. This scenario worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America obtained over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
Also Bank of America owns 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 houses at the end, this acquisition is highly profitable transaction for Countrywide Financial executives.
The activity which BofA is planning to undertake now will allow around 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts save their houses. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is supposed to happen during the upcoming two years. A big number of borrowers with bad debts results into increase of Countrywide REO homes number.
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