No Income No Asset

No Income No Asset
For other uses of the term "NINA", see Nina

No Income No Asset (NINA), No Income No Job or Asset (NINJA) or simply Nina Loan[1] is a term used in the United States mortgage industry to describe one of many documentation types which lenders may allow when underwriting a mortgage.

NINA programs are ostensibly created for those with hard to verify incomes (waiters, etc.) but in actuality have been popularly used in situations where aggressive mortgage lenders and brokers did not want any trouble qualifying otherwise non-qualifying loans, thus becoming a significant factor in the subprime lending crisis. A significant number of NINA loans were never possible for the applicant to repay and have resulted in defaults for this reason, as laid out in detail by investigative reporters, including the reporting of This American Life and Planet Money that culminated in the Peabody- and Polk- award wining episode "The Giant Pool of Money."


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No Income No Job no Assets

A NINJA Loan is a type of subprime loan. It was described as a No Income, No Job, (and) no Assets loan because the only thing an applicant had to show was his/her credit rating. The phrase was coined by Charles R. Morris in his book The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, which went to press March 3, 2008 with the manuscript being written in November 2007. They were especially prominent during the United States housing bubble of the 2000s but have gained wider notoriety due to the subprime mortgage crisis in July/August 2007 as a prime example of poor lending practices[2]. The term grew in usage during the 2008 financial crisis as the sub prime mortgage crisis was blamed on such loans. It works on two levels - as an acronym; and allusion to the fact that ninja loans are often defaulted on, with the borrower disappearing like a ninja.

The term was also popularized in the 2010 US film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps by the character Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas.

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References

  1. ^ http://www.brokeroutpost.com/reference/59076.htm
  2. ^ Ninja loans explode on sub-prime frontline

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