CIT Group exits student loans as Nelnet muscles for growth
Ireneusz Skorupa
CIT Group, a commercial bank, will exit the student loan business by selling its remaining portfolio of $3.6bn in federal loans to Nelnet, a dominant issuer of student loan ABS. The deal comes as supply from a federal loan program winds down and investors look to whole loan transfers to help boost new ABS volumes.
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