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
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 Monetory Fund
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.