ResCap tips the scales

In the past few years, GMAC's mortgage-related businesses have become increasingly stymied by the ill-favoured rating environment of their immediate parent and GM. It was time to find a way out.

GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE Corporation was established in 1919 as a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors to finance dealers’ inventories and help customers fund car purchases. Over the decades, though, it grew into a massive global firm that extended and dealt in finance for a broad range of services and products. Motor vehicles still figured strongly but residential and corporate real estate, insurance and mortgage business became increasingly important. For as long as the traditional core auto business of parent GM and GMAC was healthy, the other financial businesses could borrow cheaply on the strength of GMAC’s investment-grade rating.

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