Southern Europe's non-performing loans pique PE’s interest
The European non-performing loan (NPL) market has shown increasing vitality in the past year and has attracted growing interest from several international private equity funds, with southern Europe accounting for the vast majority of the transactions. Alessia Argentieri reports
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