NYT: Αμερικανικές εταιρείες εκμεταλλεύοντα ι την ευρωπαϊκή κρίση

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Με το να χορηγούν δάνεια και να εξαγοράζουν περιουσιακά στοιχεία από τράπεζες που αντιμετωπίζουν προβλήματα, εκμεταλλεύονται οι αμερικανικές τράπεζες και επιχειρήσεις την ευρωπαϊκή κρίση χρέους, σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα των New York Times.

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Το δημοσίευμα επικαλείται τη Morgan Stanley η οποία εκτίμησε ότι τα ευρωπαϊκά χρηματοπιστωτικά ιδρύματα θα προχωρήσουν στην πώληση περιουσιακών στοιχείων αξίας έως 3 τρισ. ευρώ, τους επόμενους 18 μήνες.

Μάλιστα αναφέρει ως παράδειγμα την περίπτωση της Ελλάδας, σημειώνοντας ότι ελληνική ιδιωτική εταιρία είχε επαφές το Δεκέμβριο με τρεις τραπεζίτες του ομίλου εξαγορών, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (ΚΚR), ο οποίος αναζητά ευκαιρίες και στην Ισπανία και την Πορτογαλία. Επίσης, αναφέρεται στην Blackstone Group.

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To πλήρες δημοσίευμα των NYTimes… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/business/us-firms-see-europe-woes-as-opportunities.html?_r=1&ref=kohlbergkravisrobertsandco

U.S. Firms See Opportunities in Europe’s Woes
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The Blackstone Group bought real estate loans backed by properties, including the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Florida.

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZPublished: December 25, 2011

As Europe struggles with its debt crisis, American businesses and financial firms are swooping in amid the distress, making loans and snapping up assets owned by banks there — from the mortgage on a luxury hotel in Miami Beach to the tallest office building in Dublin.

The sales are being spurred on because European banks are scrambling to raise capital and shrink their balance sheets, often under orders from regulators. European financial institutions will unload up to $3 trillion in assets over the next 18 months, according to an estimate from Huw van Steenis, an analyst with Morgan Stanley.

This month a team of three bankers from the London office of the buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts headed to Greece to examine a promising private company that cannot get Greek banks to provide credit for future growth. The Blackstone Group agreed to buy from the German financial giant Commerzbank $300 million in real estate loans that are backed by properties, including the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Florida and four Sofitel hotels in Chicago, Miami, Minneapolis and San Francisco. Commerzbank is under pressure from regulators to raise 5.3 billion euros ($6.9 billion) in new capital by mid-2012.

Google too saw an opportunity. It bought the Montevetro building in Dublin this year from Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, which acquired it after a huge bank rescue by the Irish government.

“There is clearly a restructuring and shrinking of European financial institutions,” said Timothy J. Sloan, chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, which last month acquired $3.3 billion in real estate loans from a bank in Ireland. “And many of the assets they’re shedding are in the United States.”

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