Porsche debacle teaches harsh lesson in loans discipline

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Porsche debacle teaches harsh lesson in loans discipline

Porsche’s banks will be breathing easier now that its merger with Volkswagen and a Qatari cash injection are set to go ahead. But bankers also have lessons to learn: the episode shows the importance of applying the kind of discipline in lending criteria that was so sorely lacking in the past.

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