Loan pricing is a battle: banks must learn to stand up for themselves

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Loan pricing is a battle: banks must learn to stand up for themselves

Bankers in the western European syndicated loan market complain that borrowers have not grasped how hard it is for them to offer tight pricing since the credit crisis. But it is the borrowers’ job to push for the best terms they can get. Communicating the new pricing is the banks’ job — the trouble is, they have forgotten how to say ‘no’.

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