Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae , the largest U.S. mortgage- finance company, will stop buying or guaranteeing Alt-A mortgages because of surging losses from home loans to borrowers without proof of their finances.

Treasurer Timothy Cahill said he would not grant Gov. Deval Patrick's request to invest $50 million in Massachusetts pension funds for bonds that would be sold to provide tuition loans to cash-strapped college students.

Citibank has created a new section on its website that offers tips on how to use credit cards and personal loans safely and wisely. The new section, 'Use Credit Responsibly' can be found at www.citibank.com/bahrain.

Dubai, UAE, 20 July 2008: Emirates NBD Emirates NBD has been given the green light by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates to launch a new consumer finance company under the name of Emirates Money Consumer

Darkom, Jordan’s first housing loan insurance company, has signed an agreement with Capital Bank, one of Jordan’s leading private commercial banks, on May 19, 2008 at Darkom’s headquarters, to facilitate housing loan finance to bank clients and all