Montepio bank is preparing the sale of a portfolio of bad debts and real estate, a set of NPLs that should be around 1,400 million euros.
Through its branch in London, the Japanese investment bank Nomura was hired by Montepio to structure this operation, represented in Portugal by Vasco Bouça, Head of Portugal at Nomura. According to Económico, which advances the news, in a first phase, 500 million euros should be sold. Around 700 million euros refer to impairments constituted by the bank.
Nomura is listening to a restricted group of investors in the market but, for now, large investors in this type of assets, such as Davidson Kempner, Bain Capital or Arrow Global, have not been invited to participate and submit proposals.
The same publication states that Associação Mutualista Montepio Geral may want to keep part of the riskier assets in the portfolio of its company Bolsimo, which operates as a servicer, as long as the bank can sell to its shareholder, with a green light from the Bank of Portugal, quotes idealist/news.