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Credit Card Bond Sales at Zero
Credit card companies were shut out of the market for bonds backed by customer payments in October for the first time in more than 15 years, as investors shunned the debt amid the global credit freeze. U.S. credit-card lenders may report record high customer defaults in 2009, Fitch Rating said in a Nov. 3 statement. American Express was forced to set aside $1.4 billion for loan losses, according to an Oct. 30 statement. American Express has lost 47 percent of its market value this year on concern that higher funding costs and rising defaults will hurt profit. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-11-06 |
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