LONDON: Italy’s plan to use securitisation to help relieve banks of their soured loans is an attempt to imbue securities backed by non-performing assets with some of the lustre enjoyed by sovereign bonds, according to a senior official at the Treasury.
Italy plans to “wrap,” or guarantee, bonds issued out of vehicles set up to pool banks’ non-performing loans.
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