Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Loss (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, one of 12 district banks of the FHLB, said Tuesday its second-quarter profit fell 13 percent due to drops in both net interest income and other income.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Announces Second Quarter 2007 Operating Highlights and Third Quarter 2007 Dividend ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, as well as dividend guidance for the third quarter of 2007.

PNC Bank commits $1 billion for home and business loans (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
PNC Bank on Thursday announced it would provide at least $1 billion to low- and moderate-income New Jersey residents and business owners over the next three years to encourage community development.

PNC Bank commits $1B for N.J. home, business loans (Daily Record)
NEWARK -- PNC Bank on Thursday announced it would provide at least $1 billion to low- and moderate-income New Jersey residents and business owners during the next three years to encourage community development.

Oahu home foreclosure rate rises (Honolulu Advertiser)
O'ahu's home foreclosure rate rose 68 percent in the first half of the year compared with a year earlier, but was still the fourth-lowest among large U.S. metropolitan areas.

48 bank loan fraud cases unsolved in city (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
With bank loans easily available, there has been a spurt in fraud cases in the city and its fringes. Police said that in the past six months the cases have risen at an alarming rate. There are 48 fraud cases reported in the past six months. In most cases, the swindlers take loans on the pretext of constructing houses or dabbling in real estate and dupe the banks, sources said. On the other hand, ...

Stars and gripes over US loans (Daily Telegraph)
WE meet the American families whose mortgages with reckless lenders are among the reasons you face yet another home loan rate rise - regardless of what the Reserve Bank does.

Lenders predict making extra rate rise (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Australian mortgage lenders could be forced to increase variable home loan rates by 0.25 per cent in coming months, independent of moves by the Reserve Bank.

Big bank confirms rate fears (The Courier Mail)
AUSTRALIA'S biggest retail bank has confirmed fears consumers could be hit with higher interest rates due to the growing global credit crisis.

Wall Street Wants Rate Cut -- Now (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Financial markets to Federal Reserve: Cut rates ... now. With worries about credit taking the Dow Jones industrials down by sometimes hundreds of points a day the past few weeks, investors seem to be trying to force the Fed into giving them the interest rate cut they want -- and well ahead of the Fed's next meeting Sept. 18.