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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ally Financial Inc's Residential Capital unit is nearing a bankruptcy filing, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday, in a move that could help the taxpayer-owned auto lender to shed its troubled mortgage business but also spur drawn-out legal fights.
Residential Capital LLC, the unprofitable mortgage company whose parent Ally Financial Inc. (ALLY) is trying to repay a U.S. government bailout, filed for bankruptcy.
(Reuters) - Ally Financial is "absolutely not" looking to sell its core U.S. auto lending business as it seeks ways to pay back $12 billion it owes to U.S. taxpayers after a government-funded bailout during the financial crisis, the company's CEO said Tuesday. Ally, the former in-house financing arm for General Motors Co , on Monday announced plans to sell some international operati
Ally Financial Inc's Residential Capital unit is nearing a bankruptcy filing, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday, in a move that could help the taxpayer-owned auto lender to shed its troubled mortgage business but also spur drawn-out legal fights.
Ally Financial, which still owes the government about two-thirds of the $17.2 billion in emergency loans it received as part of the General Motors and Chrysler rescues, nudged its residential mortgage subsidiary into Chapter 11 bankruptcy today to shed toxic mortgage-related securities.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ally Financial Inc's Residential Capital unit is nearing a bankruptcy filing, sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday, in a move that could help the taxpayer-owned auto lender to shed its troubled mortgage business but also spur drawn-out legal fights. The board of ResCap is scheduled to meet later on Sunday and a pre-arranged bankruptcy filing, where Ally has

Time running out for Ally Financial

Posted by mortgage 13 days ago (Editorial)
Interviews with people directly involved in Ally?s restructuring reveal how missed opportunities, competing interests, lax oversight from the government and bad luck have stymied Ally
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