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Capmark Financial Group Inc., one of the nation's largest commercial-real-estate lenders, plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as this weekend, a person familiar with the situation said. The much-expected move underscores the deep problems in the business-property market. After suffering from the collapse in residential mortgages, U.S. banks face steep losses from commercial real-estate loans. Capmark has originated more than $10 billion in commercial real-estate loans, according to Moody's Investors Service.
Originally posted by D.E.M.
This is unsurprising, and perfectly on track. The commercial Real Estate bubble is the next to pop after home real estate, it was only a matter of time. Once this one goes, there's no stopping the downward spiral.
Originally posted by St Udio
reply to post by lucentenigma
If they had a large portfolio of lending to REITs then a good bit of malls &/or apartments might be going into bankruptcy as a result...
for the last 12+ months a lot of REITs found the necessary Loan money which their regular 'Loan' bankers failed to provide from Other Sources,
and this firm may have been one of those outside sources.
~just trying to see what may lay ahead~
Originally posted by St Udio
reply to post by lucentenigma
If they had a large portfolio of lending to REITs then a good bit of malls &/or apartments might be going into bankruptcy as a result...
for the last 12+ months a lot of REITs found the necessary Loan money which their regular 'Loan' bankers failed to provide from Other Sources,
and this firm may have been one of those outside sources.
~just trying to see what may lay ahead~
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Resolution Authority ASAP
yglesias.thinkprogress.org...
Both in answering the question and in his prepared text, Mr. Bernanke again beseeched Congress to act soon to give regulators “resolution authority” to cope with the imminent collapse of a big financial firm other than a bank, and to address other vulnerabilities in the regulatory regime exposed during the crisis.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
reply to post by lucentenigma
Monday is certainly going to be interesting isn't it?
The thing that really gets me, is that the major players don't wait until morning, they'll be scouring for news tonight, ready to get one step ahead the moment they can make a move to secure their finances.
These people know all too well how the media is down-playing, they were the ones to pull out of the market previously when the media was pushing the "green shoots" and "recovery" lines.
With the chatter the way it is this weekend, if we are seeing it all, so are they. They're likely seeing the same reports we have been over today and yesterday, and they'll likely have some more insider knowledge too.
I have to say, for the first time, I'm planning to go to a cash machine early morning and taking out as much as I can.
I'm in the UK, but the way I see it is, if there is a real risk of a market crash when the US starts trading, it would send a shock wave through global banking that really could lead to an immediate shut-down.