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Win or lose, Citibank’s battle to recover half a billion dollars from an accidental payment is sure to prompt a review of internal controls in the industry and could have a lasting impact on the more than $1 trillion syndicated loan market.December 21
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Institutions need to think about revenue streams and portfolio diversification as the coronavirus affects much of the U.S. economy.May 8Senior associate for the loan trading deskAlliant Credit Union
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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 8Senior 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