Finanziaria International is arranging a EUR 185m real estate securitisation backed by two hotel properties in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, according to Enrico Meneghetti, CEO of asset manager Enma Capital. 

Securitisations of non-performing loans using state guarantee schemes in Italy and Greece have been the main tool European banks have used to dispose of NPLs so far this year, a Debtwire anaylsis shows.

Debtwire Europe's restructuring team has produced a series of articles focusing on the measures taken by the main European countries in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as selected companies affected by it. We start today with Italy.

According to new data from the Debtwire ABS NPL Database presented today at Debtwire’s Italian Restructuring Forum in Milan, Italy is expected to lead the pack of European loan portfolio sellers again in 2019. 

With non-performing loan markets at a pivotal  point, investors set to expand geographical reach.

Brexit is the main macroeconomic factor likely to drive a European restructuring wave in 2019, according to Debtwire’s 15th European Distressed Debt Market Outlook.

Italy produces half of total volume of NPL sales whilst sales slow in Spain. 

Italy, the political situation, its widening spread and the increasingly tense relationship with the EU are as topical as Brexit, these days.

• The perfect storm and how to survive it

Banks continue with plans to use government's guarantee scheme despite financial turmoil.

With so any expert views arising at the Italian Restructuring Forum, we've put together the presentations from the event panels.