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Genesis Trading, one of the largest crypto lending institutions, said it’s temporarily suspending redemptions and new loan originations in its lending business. The development is one more blow to crypto credit markets and sent bitcoin’s value down. The company said on a Wednesday call with clients that it’s working to find a solution for its lending business and is pushing to present proposals next week. The announcement comes as yet another ripple effect from the bankruptcy of major crypto… Source link

Ash, a 34-year-old accountant from Connecticut, graduated from college in 2009 year with more than $100,000 in private loans, she says. Still, she thinks of herself as relatively lucky. With the help of her husband, who didn’t have his own student loans, they managed to pay them off in March 2022, after 12 years of making sacrifices so they could afford the monthly loan payments. Even if Ash, who asked Fortune not to share her last name to protect her privacy, hadn’t completely paid off her… Source link

Small business owners often face hurdles trying to borrow money. Data from the Federal Reserve shows that 85% experienced financial difficulties in 2021. And during that time, more than half of owners who sought loans were looking to meet their operating expenses rather than to expand their businesses, the report found. In addition, small business owners are also feeling the sting of higher prices. Inflation in the country is now running at annual 7.9% for the 12-month period ended February,… Source link

Retirement reform advocates in Washington have had a bumpy 2021. Multiple efforts to help people save more effectively for retirement, including one informally called SECURE 2.0, seemed to be on track for passage before Congress’ other efforts crowded them out. But the effort may gain renewed traction in 2022. In a recent webinar co-hosted by Yahoo Finance and the Bipartisan Policy Center, Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) said, “I think our chance for success in the upcoming year to get the SECURE… Source link

Colgate University is using its billion-dollar endowment to address the issue of college affordability, starting with 600 freshman students this fall. To tackle the growing burden of student loan debt, the New York-based private liberal arts college earlier launched an initiative called the Colgate Commitment: An Initiative in Access and Affordability that will provide full tuition support for the lowest-income students and more, beginning with about 600 students in the class of 2026.  “We… Source link

The Department of Education (ED)’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), which oversees the government’s massive student loan portfolio, launched a new Office of Enforcement last week to overhaul oversight of postsecondary schools that participate in federal student loan programs. FSA Chief Operation Officer Richard Cordray, a former attorney general in Ohio who served as the director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under President Obama and wrote “Watchdog: How Protecting… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard paid $59 million for a Manhattan townhouse in March. Just two months later he obtained a $30 million mortgage from Citigroup Inc. Denis Sverdlov, worth $6.1 billion thanks to his shares in electric-vehicle maker Arrival, recently pledged part of that stake for a line of credit from the same bank. For Edgar and Clarissa Bronfman the loan collateral is paintings by Damien Hirst and Diego Rivera, among others. Philippe Laffont, meanwhile,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The 2021 Bitcoin bubble is deflating and hitting a $1.3 trillion industry built on to-the-moon speculation and rampant leverage. The damage from the latest selloff is spreading across the world of crypto loans, options and futures — wiping out money-spinning strategies from the famous basis trade to yield farming. Even with Wednesday’s rebound, Bitcoin at around $31,700 is still trading near the lower end of its range over the past two months, and down about 50% from the April… Source link

In the 2020 CARES Act, Congress gave student-loan borrowers a temporary break from repaying their loans. President Trump extended that twice and President Biden once, with loan payments now set to resume Oct. 1, 2021. Borrowers could have kept paying if they wanted to, but almost nobody did. As Tom Lee of the American Action Forum recently explained, the portion of borrowers repaying their student loans dropped from 46% at the beginning of 2020 to 1% today. The portion of borrowers in… Source link