Banks led by Morgan Stanley have sold to investors another chunky portion of loans that formed the $13 billion debt supporting Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, now X, in 2022, a source with knowledge of the deal said.

On Thursday, they completed the secondary sale of $4.74 billion of secured loans which mature in October 2029. The loans paid a fixed rate yield of 9.5% and priced at par or at 100 cents to the dollar, said the source. The loan sale was upsized from an initial $2.97 billion.

With the latest sale, the banks - that besides Morgan Stanley includes Bank of America, Barclays, Mitsubishi UFJ, BNP Paribas, Mizuho, and Societe Generale - have been able to shed almost all of the $13 billion they have been holding on their books for nearly two years.

    • @reddig33
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      128 days ago

      I was wondering who would throw good money after bad.

    • @cheese_greater
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      58 days ago

      Nobody can deny its basically infinite ROI for his purposes. People were raving about how idiotic and overvalued it was and I said all along this will be an absolute steal and money-rainer for diktators