In this fifth instalment of the series we're looking at one approach financial institutions can take when dealing with their toxic assets. This approach is to create a new organisation either within the bank or nationally, into which bad or 'toxic' assets can be moved in order to create value to shareholders and free up a bank's balance sheet. In order to provide you with an insight into how this might work, we have developed a two-part 'FS Market Insight' podcast programme in which our partners highlight what banks need to consider when dividing a bank up.

Although our focus for this topic is on the banking sector, we do believe that it will be of a valuable listen for all financial institutions.

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Episode 5(pt1)

20 April 2009

In part one we discuss the advantages of the approach and how the construct has worked in the past. Part two examines how you divide your workforce between the parts and how to best utilise the various schemes the Government has created to help deal with toxic asset.