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Many borrowers had little idea of what a yield spread premium was, even when it was costing them money.
The most controversial was a "yield spread premium," paid by lenders when a broker placed a borrower in a loan that charged higher interest than other loans.
Between the broker's fee, the origination fee and something called a yield spread premium, the points on the new loan came to 6.3percentt.
He planned to tackle one of the mortgage brokerage industry's most abusive practices: the yield spread premium, by which banks paid lucrative bounties to mortgage brokers who found new clients.
The yield spread premium "is a payment from a lender to the broker in exchange for bringing the loan in at a higher interest than the borrower otherwise would have qualified for," Mr. Zinner said.
But the buyer had no inkling about the extra 2% finder's payment (called a "lender's rebate" or "yield spread premium") from the lender to the broker.
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Congress finally outlawed yield spread premiums in July.
Subprime lenders in particular often used yield spread premiums.
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Yield spread premiums fueled the subprime frenzy, according to official post-mortems on the crisis.
Yield spread premiums are payments made to mortgage brokers by lending institutions based on the rate of interest charged on a borrower's loan, with higher interest rates producing higher yield spread premiums payments.
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