Toxic assets
When ‘bad’ assets aren’t bad – Caveat Lector column
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Source: Credit
Something rotten’s going on. ‘Bad’ assets shouldn’t linger like a bad smell; they should be picked up by careful dealers with a nose for a winner, just like in the good old days
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Bad banks and ring-fenced legacy assets remain big parts of the structured credit market. With a rebound in prices and soaring capital charges, there is speculation the pace of asset sales could speed...
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Last US PPIP fund closes with help from Inuit
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The ninth and last fund authorised under the US Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program has closed its initial funding, bringing the programme's spending power to a total of $24 billion. Oaktree Capital Management, based in Los Angeles, invested...
Fudge or fix?
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Barclays announced in September it had sold $12.3 billion of credit assets to a newly established fund called Protium Finance. The acquisition was largely financed by a loan from Barclays, meaning the bank has insulated itself against further mark-to-market...
Q&A: David Sayles, Blackrock
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The New York-based managing director and member of BlackRock’s financial markets advisory group tells Credit that the problems caused by toxic assets on US bank balance sheets are far from over. Since the global financial crisis took hold in the summer...
A slow death for small banks
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For the top tier banks that survived the financial crisis, aided in no small part by government support, the future seems relatively secure, as the latest round of quarterly results would attest. The same cannot be said for many small US banks, for whom...
Credit risk
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Equity markets have partially recovered, Libor rates have dropped and volatility levels have dampened. There are even signs some economies could return to growth as early as the end of this year – something that would have seemed wildly optimistic back...
Trouble brewing
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Despite early signs the US recession may be over, the short-term future for many of the country’s small and medium-sized banks looks grim as they struggle to deal with mounting losses on whole loan portfolios. By Rob Davies
Barclays takes Protium pill
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UK banking group Barclays last month restructured $12.3 billion of credit assets by effectively converting its holdings into a loan to a buyer of the assets, a move it claims will remove mark-to-market risk and generate more stable returns for the bank....
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