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Detroit -- General Motors Acceptance Corp. here has restructured its residential mortgage business, placing GMAC Mortgage Corp. and Residential Funding Corp. under a new holding company.
The move - long anticipated - came in early May, about a day before Standard & Poor's cut the credit ratings of General Motors Acceptance Corp. to "junk/speculative grade" status due to financial woes of its automotive corporate parent.
As part of the restructuring, GMAC contributed $2 billion in equity into the new holding company, which is called Residential Capital Corp. or "ResCap." (GMAC also named industry veteran Thomas Jacob to ResCap's board. Mr. Jacob is the retired chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp., Edison, N.J.)
A spokeswoman for GMAC's parent company, General Motors, said the $2 billion is a "reduction in debt" for ResCap and does not represent a cash outflow from GMAC.
The restructuring of GMAC Mortgage and RFC in no way includes GMAC Commercial Mortgage of Horsham, Pa., the nation's largest commercial mortgage banking firm.
As reported, Lewis S. Ranieri, the "father" of the mortgage-backed security, and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, GMAC Adds Holding Unit.