Finance & economics | Bank of America’s trial

A case of note

A Manhattan trial should shine needed light on the pre-crisis mortgage market

Bank examiner
|New York

IT IS hardly controversial to say that Countrywide Financial, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were at the very centre of the financial crisis—Countrywide because it was a leading originator of subprime-mortgage loans, and the two government-sponsored housing-finance giants because they bought vast amounts of these mortgages. All three imploded.

This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “A case of note”

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