Mortgage Meltdown: FDIC Unloads $558M In Bad Loans For Less Than 50 Cents On Dollar To Firm Led By Ex-Countrywide Head; Price To Be Paid Out Over Time

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Bloomberg News reports:

  • Stanford Kurland, the former Countrywide Financial Corp. president, says his new company’s purchase of $558 million in home loans issued by a failed Nevada bank will be a springboard for further growth. Private National Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC [“PennyMac“], based in Calabasas, California, is paying less than 50 cents on the dollar for loans that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. acquired last July after First National Bank of Nevada collapsed.

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  • Kurland declined to discuss financial details of the transaction, which FDIC spokesman David Barr said doesn’t involve any sharing of possible losses. The FDIC will be paid 80 percent of loan cash flow until an undisclosed level of payments are received, then 60 percent thereafter, Barr said.

For more, see PennyMac, Led by Ex-Countrywide Head, Sees Promise in Bad Loans.