This year is once again set to be a record year for the European non-performing loans (NPL) market, according to new data from Debtwire ABS, presented yesterday (17 October) at Debtwire Week.
We were joined by some of the leading voices in the industry at the annual Mid-Market forum, here's what they had to say.
The Italian non-performing loan (NPL) market is on track for a record year in terms of securitisations and mergers and acquisitions of servicers and NPL management platforms, according to analysis of Debtwire and Mergermarket data.
We've put together all the insights from the 2017 CEE Restructuring Forum where we looked at the Ukraine, legal updates and the Agrokor situation.
We caught up with Federico Sutti, Italy Managing Partner at Dentons to get his views on the Italin NPL reforms before his panel discussion at the Italian Restructuring Form at Debtwire Week.
NPL investors continue to head south. Deals keep coming out of Spain and new markets, such as Portugal, Greece and Cyprus, are slowly emerging. But the real action has been in Italy, which finally has started to address its EUR 200bn bad debt mountain.
At the 2017 Debtwire Italian Restructuring Forum we interviewed Fedele Pascuzzi, Partner at PwC, who took part in the NPL and banking panel.
The European commercial real estate market got off to a slow start in 2017. Transaction volumes during the first quarter are thinner than a year earlier. However, there are enough interesting themes emerging this year.
Years have gone by, and no answer has been posed the NPL questions in Italy. Lots of talk and discussion about what to do about the question has gone on, but there has yet to be any actions pursuing an end to the problem.
Foreward
The Italian banking market continues to experience challenges surrounding asset quality, capital adequacy and profitability. In July 2016, the European Banking Authority stress tests results highlighted Italy’s banking problems and the recent events have highlighted the overall fragility of the system.
Non-performing loans (NPLs) have reached systemic levels in Italy. Earlier this year during a discussion in Milan, experts considered the outlook for future portfolio sales.
Maurizio Ria from Duke & Kay summarises the key lessons for investors seeking to access Italian NPLs.
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