Nama chairman Frank Daly Minister for Finance Michael Noonan
This morning.
The Irish Independent reports:
Nama has shrugged off criticism from the State’s most powerful spending watchdog by launching a €3bn loan sale, the Irish Independent has learned.
The State agency pulled the trigger on the massive sale yesterday, just 24 hours after the publication of a highly critical report by the the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) into the agency’s handling of the controversial Project Eagle sale of Northern Ireland loans.
A Nama insider said the sale had been in the works but indicated the timing would signal ‘business as usual’ at the agency which still has a vast portfolio of loans to sell off or work out over its remaining three years.
Meanwhile…
NAMA launches sale of new portfolio of loans,Project Gem,38 borrowers,€3bn loans linked to 392 properties.It’s as if there was no CAG report
— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) September 16, 2016
Nama launches €3bn loan sale despite watchdog criticism (Irish Independent)
Previously: ‘The Taxpayer Got Full Value For Money’