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Standard & Poors sees increase in NPLs in EMEA countries

23 July 2021 Editors

Credit rating agency Standard and Poors expects an increase in NPLs in the EMEA banking system, it said in a…

Bain Capital join forces with SKW Funding

16 June 2021 Editors

SKW Funding, a New York City-based private lending and distressed debt platform, and Bain Capital Credit have joined forces on a second joint…

Davidson Kempner buys bad loans in Greece and “ice-creams in Turkey”.

28 May 2021 Editors

Davidson Kempner the USA-based investment firm which recently acquired servicing firm Cepal from Alpha and bought part of Mezzanine and…

ECB: Investment fund may be vulnerable to an interest rate hike

20 May 2021 Editors

The European Central Bank in its latest Financial Stability review estimates that investment funds may be vulnerable to a global…

Cyprus: NPLs fell by EUR3.86 billion in 2020

12 April 2021 Editors

Banks in Cyprus reduced their Non-performing loans (NPLs) by €3.86 billion to €5.11 billion at the end of 2020, according to…

Irish Banks NPLs to rise as support measures end

2 April 2021 Editors

Irish banks’ non-performing loans will increase in the coming quarters as support measures for borrowers during the pandemic come to…

Italy’s bad bank set to handle bad pandemic loans

15 March 2021 Editors

Italy may ask state-owned asset manager AMCO to handle a mounting pile of government-backed soured loans issued to support businesses…

Spain extends loan moratoria until December 31

9 March 2021 Editors

Spanish Government decided to extend loan moratoria until December 31 in order to prevent companies from filing bankruptcy. The moratorium…

AIB sells €600m of non-performing mortgage loans to Mars

23 February 2021 Editors

Irish AIB is to sell 4,000 non-performing mortgage loans to Mars Capital Finance, the majority of which are held by…

EU finance ministers, are preparing an action plan to tackle NPLs

20 January 2021 Editors

The proposals were discussed at the EU finance ministers’ video conference on Tuesday. Measures against bad loans as a result of the corona crisis are important for financial stability, said Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD). He did not rule out a “significant increase” in NPLs.