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Franklin Financial agreed to be sold less than a year after issues surfaced in its portfolio of shared national credits.January 22
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By turning to investors outside traditional banking, private-equity firms are finding it easier than ever to get loans to finance their buyouts of corporations that are nowhere close to being profitable.September 20
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Amid widespread concern about their exposure to leveraged lending, the debt rating agency says banks have sufficient earnings and capital cushions to continue investing in the sector.February 20
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A recent joint analysis of large syndicated loans urged banks to improve their risk management, even though evidence suggests that nonbanks, not banks, hold the higher share of risky leveraged loans.February 8
Senior Vice President and Head of ResearchBank Policy Institute
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Despite a generally positive picture in the Shared National Credit report, regulators warned that underperforming loans in the portfolio remain elevated.January 25
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U.S. financial institutions such as Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have reported hundreds of millions of dollars of losses stemming from the scandal at retailer Steinhoff International.July 11
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The London interbank offered rate will likely be replaced by a new reference rate that critics say is better suited for the derivatives market than it is for commercial lending.May 28
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Bank of America is offloading some margin loans after losing $292 million on soured credit to the former chairman of Steinhoff International Holdings, according to people with knowledge of the matter.March 20
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The company, which recently shared a three-year plan to bring in more lower-cost deposits and commercial loans, seems ready to play offense a year after the ouster of its CEO.February 14
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Banking regulatory agencies Thursday announced that they would raise the aggregate loan commitment threshold for syndicated loans to be included in the Shared National Credit program from $20 million to $100 million.December 21
