Articles Posted in Commercial Lenders

As the credit markets started to close for over a dozen companies, including Prudential Financial, CIT Group, and GMAC Inc., the firms began to get their funding for debt financing from retirees-reports Bloomberg in an August 2009 article. For example, between December 2007 and 2008, CIT sold $827 million of…

Many investors were told that investing in CIT preferred stock and bonds was safe and appropriate for them. Some sales pitches were based on the $2.3 billion government bailout of CIT. This is just another example of material misrepresentations and omissions in the sale of fixed income products, which have…