Goldman Sachs, the titan of global finance, has spent more than €8bn buying distressed debt portfolios. Following a two-month investigation, we unlock the structures and the securitisation vehicles used to house its new Irish empire.
The Ardagh Group has been a master of debt. Walking a fine line, it has borrowed and spent its way to the top of its industry. Now the time has come for Ardagh to de-lever, so its owners can have their long-awaited stock market payday.
The populist noise surrounding so-called cuckoo funds is merely deflecting attention away from the aggressive tactics being deployed by old-fashioned vulture funds. They are gaming the system, and the state continues blindly selling to them.
A new flurry of legal proceedings shows Cabot Financial is not finished pursuing borrowers in portfolios it has acquired from, or services on behalf of Irish banks. But who are the vultures operating off Dublin’s Belgard road?
Spurred by unprecedented low-cost long-term funding, Ireland needs to win the case in Brussels for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and to fund the former separately as a long-term asset.
As the troubled global baking business releases crucial annual results, Sean Keyes and Thomas Hubert assess its chances of emerging from under a mountain of debt.
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