Italian fund manager Idea Capital Funds Sgr is working on a project to create two vehicles that would pool and manage bad loans of some medium-sized Italian banks, daily Milano Finanza said on Saturday. Citing Chief Executive Officer Mario Barozzi, the paper said the two funds could be in place by 2015. They would pool bad loans, excluding the most problematic ones, from a number of banks that could then be restructured using new funding.
"The new funding would come from third-party investors that would subscribe to a stake in the new funds managed by Idea," Barozzi was quoted as saying. Idea Capital Funds could not immediately be reached for comment. One fund would focus on loans in the industrial sector and its total size will be of between 500 million euros to 1 billion euros. The other will be dedicated to loans in the agricultural sector, with the fund's total size at around 300 million euros.
The project follows a move by Italy's top two banks UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo, which in April said they had signed a deal with US private equity firm KKR to pool some of their problematic loans, as the country's lenders seek new ways to grapple with soured debts.
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