The 2009 financial crisis may have been global, but its effects in each country had a distinctly local flavour. None more so, perhaps, than the United Arab  Emirates, where a highly mobile population of expats faced potential jail time over bounced cheques or defaults on loans.

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

After years of NPL portfolio disposals, market players in Spain are exploring securitisation as an exit strategy for NPLs according to delegates at Afme’s annual Spanish Funding conference in Madrid.

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

Cerberus pursues German bank purchases. 

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.

Analysis of recent NPL activity by banks in Greece.

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

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. 

• Italy appears to be addressing its EUR 200bn bad debt mountain
• EUR 60.9bn across 16 deals are currently ongoing
• Investors are moving south showing interest in Greece’s EUR 100bn and Portugal’s EUR 36bn debt

Independence vote casts new light on NPL portfolios on the market.

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.