When is a sale not a sale? When the seller is really desperate
The overhang of unsold leveraged loans is now visibly crumbling. News that Citigroup and Deutsche are selling big chunks to private equity funds will accelerate this process. But since the banks are lending money to the funds to buy the assets, the ‘clean-up’ is a lot less impressive than it appears at first.
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