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Two of the nation’s biggest lenders are quietly modifying loans for tens of thousands of borrowers who have not asked for help but whom the banks deem to be at special risk.

Angry homeowners are "foreclosing" on their banks.

This time around, mortgage experts say, lenders are offering more conservative ARM products, without the gimmicky “teaser” rates and features.

Nearly two dozen lenders have agreed to participate in a new F.H.A. loan modification program called Short Refi.

After borrowers persuade their lenders to settle for a reduced amount, calls from collection agencies could be replaced by calls from the IR ...

It's not just lenders who check your credit scores. Bad scores can also make it costlier to get insurance, an apartment or a cell phone -- and harder to get a job.

The housing meltdown may have driven some of the less-qualified lenders out of business. Still, you don't want to go to just anybody.

Here's how to pick a winner.

In the past year, the share of microcredit clients in Haiti who have defaulted or are at risk of defaulting has more than doubled, to 18 percent, and lenders' financial situations are sometimes almost as precarious as those of their clients....

Procedural problems at some large lenders are so prevalent that additional lenders and loan servicers are likely to halt foreclosure proceedings, experts say.

The agency will look into refusals by some lenders to make home loans to people who were pregnant or on short-term disability.