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A company called Loan Value Group is working with mortgage providers to offer rewards for staying put to home owners likely to strategically default on their loans.

Coming soon to FHA-backed loans: Higher FICO scores and more cash at closing. The changes are needed to help keep the agency afloat.

As more consumers struggle to pay off loans, debt-settlement companies promise quick fixes -- and some are scams. There are better ways you can help yourself.

Most small businesses are having trouble finding loans and credit lines these days, but auto dealers are in their own special financing hell.

Their inventory is expensive, their industry is in shambles, and their largest lenders are in tatters.

Many universities replaced loans with grants and otherwise worked to make college more affordable. But that was before once-hefty endowment funds started shrinking.

Loans for consumers and businesses remained tough to come by over the past three months, according to a report published Monday by the Federal Reserve.

Mortgage-backed securities are making it difficult for people to take advantage of the Making Home Affordable program.

Part of the problem is that investors have a say in which loans get modified and which don't. Karen Weise from ProPublica reports.

There's plenty of room at the inn. So much, in fact, that many high-end hoteliers are bleeding cash and defaulting on their loans.

CIT received $2 billion from the Fed last fall, but it won't be getting seconds from Washington. What does that mean for the small businesses that depend on loans from the company?

Steve Henn reports.

Banks continue to bundle loans and sell them off as they work to figure out their toxic asset situation. Kai Ryssdal talks with Bob Moon about how Wall Street is still up to its old tricks.