List of entities involved in 2007–2008 financial crises
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A list of companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies (government-sponsored enterprises), and/or non-profit organizations involved in the various economic and financial crises of 2007–2008.
Housing Bubble
[edit]United States
[edit]National home construction companies
[edit]Real estate and appraisal
[edit]Associations
[edit]- American Society of Appraisers
- Appraisal Institute
- National Association of Home Builders
- National Association of Realtors
- Real Estate Counseling Group of America
- Urban Land Institute
Mortgage crisis
[edit]Subprime lenders
[edit]- New Century Financial Corporation
- American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation
- Accredited Home Lenders
- Countrywide Financial
- Northern Rock (UK)
- Ameriquest
- E-Trade
- Option One
- American Freedom Mortgage, Inc.
- MortgageIT
- NovaStar Financial
- American Equity Mortgage
Other lenders
[edit]- Washington Mutual
- Wachovia
- Suntrust
- Luminent Mortgage Capital
- Aegis Wholesale
- 1st National Bank of Arizona
- GreenPoint Mortgage Funding
- Velocity Commercial Lender
- Fremont Investment & Loan
- ResMAE Mortgage Corp
- Americans Brokers Conduit
- IndyMac Bank
- Aurora Loan Services LLC
Insurers
[edit]Secondary and securitized mortgage market
[edit]Banks
[edit]- BNP Paribas,[1] France
- JPMorgan Chase, USA
- Citigroup, USA
- Deutsche Bank, Germany
- IKB Industriekredit-Bank, Germany
- Bear Stearns
- Sächsische Landesbank, Germany
- Goldman Sachs
- Lehman Brothers
- Bank of America
- Wachovia
- Netbank, USA
- UBS AG, Switzerland
- Northern Rock, United Kingdom
- HBOS, United Kingdom
- Merrill Lynch .,[2] USA
- Washington Mutual Bank
- Dexia, Belgium, France
- Fortis, Benelux
- Royal Bank of Scotland Group, United Kingdom
- Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom
- Glitnir, Iceland
- Kaupthing Bank, Iceland
- Landsbanki, Iceland
Governmental and quasi-governmental
[edit]- United States Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Federal Housing Finance Agency
- State of California
- Jefferson County, Alabama[3]
- Vallejo, California
Central Banks
[edit]Credit rating agencies
[edit]Government sponsored enterprises
[edit]- Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association
- Freddie Mac, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Nonprofit Organization
[edit]Community Organization
[edit]- ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: accused of involvement
Credit Counselors
[edit]United States officials' positions
[edit]Of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and its reincarnation as an amendment of H.R. 1424, supporters and opponents:
Supporters
[edit]- Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
- Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- George W. Bush, President
- John McCain, U.S. Senator, Arizona, 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. President
- Barack Obama, U.S. Senator, Illinois, 2008 Democratic nominee for U.S. President
- Joseph Biden, U.S. Senator, Delaware, 2008 Democratic nominee for U.S. Vice-president
Non-supporters
[edit]- Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman, Texas District 14, former candidate for Republican nomination for U.S. President
- Chuck Baldwin, 2008 presidential candidate for the Constitution Party
- Cynthia McKinney, 2008 presidential candidate for the Green Party
- Bob Barr, 2008 presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party
- Ralph Nader, 2008 independent presidential candidate
- Raghuram Rajan, 2005-06 Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
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References
[edit]- ^ BNP Paribas Investment Partners temporally suspends the calculation of the Net Asset Value of the following funds: Parvest Dynamic ABS, BNP Paribas ABS EURIBOR and BNP Paribas ABS EONIA
- ^ "AM - Subprime slump claims Merrill Lynch chief". ABC, Australia.
- ^ Slater, Dan (August 29, 2008). "Report: Bankruptcy Looms for Jefferson County, Alabama". The Wall Street Journal.