Lifting the Lid: Wall Street poses subprime obstacles

(Reuters) - The standard accounting practices and contractual terms used to create the securities leave little room for banks to modify portfolios with rising defaults and delinquencies.




And with finger-pointing among regulators, it is unclear if the industry can find any solutions to speed up a recovery in the subprime mortgage market for borrowers with poor and untraditional credit histories.


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