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‘We want to be adverse to Wall Street banks’ — Glenn Agre ramps up ABF litigation team

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‘We want to be adverse to Wall Street banks’ — Glenn Agre ramps up ABF litigation team

Harrison Connery21 Sept 2026 | APAC, US, Europe | 4 minute read

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Blackstone rescues giant soured Spanish NPL trade with pivot to data centres (9fin)

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Blackstone rescues giant soured Spanish NPL trade with pivot to data centres (9fin)

Blackstone was one of the biggest investors in the first wave of Spanish non-performing loans, buying several giant portfolios freed up by the restructuring of the Spanish banking system.

Aircraft ABS goes supersonic

With elevated oil prices amid an ongoing war in the Middle East, it’s counterintuitive that aircraft ABS would have a truly banner year.

Brightspeed lenders face structural priming as ABS looms

Brightspeed and its sponsor Apollo are considering an ABS transaction that would subordinate the internet provider’s existing lenders without paying down term loan debt, according to 9fin sources.

Petra-linked factoring firms enter administration with no recovery seen on £45m+

Regency Factors and Regency Trade Finance have been placed into administration, shining a light on the complex collapse of trade receivables platform Petra Management, which funded itself through large asset-backed bond issues placed to institutional clients such as Insight Investment, Nuveen, and Pimco, but started to fall apart in 2024.

Ayvens markets Europe’s first green-labelled and fully electric auto ABS

Ayvens, the vehicle leasing subsidiary of Société Générale, is marketing the first public European auto ABS to bear an official green label — a deal backed exclusively by electric vehicle leases in Belgium.

Insolvent Bathla’s A$3.4bn debt highlights Aussie property woes

On Friday (4 September), the administrators of Bathla Group, one of Sydney’s largest, and now insolvent, homebuilders told the firm’s creditors its A$3.4bn ($2.45bn) debt stack may still grow. The builder owes most of that cash to private credit lenders, though claimants may number as many as 3,000.

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‘We want to be adverse to Wall Street banks’ — Glenn Agre ramps up ABF litigation team

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