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Rocky Road to Recovery

Following a year like 2010, I am hard pressed to make a prediction about exactly what will happen in the world of loan sales in 2011. After all, the…

By Bliss A. Morris - President and CEO of First Financial Network and a Member of the DAI Editorial Advisory Board. | Updated on February 01, 2011

Following a year like 2010, I am hard pressed to make a prediction about exactly what will happen in the world of loan sales in 2011. After all, the best and brightest of our industry predicted that 2010 would bring a lot of trades, and through those sales would come the beginning of an end to the log-jam of loans in limbo. Instead, despite an uptick in marketing activity, especially in the last quarter of the year, and a deluge of offers to buy, many deals did not occur. All the bullish predictions last year couldn’t budge the lethargic economic and lending environments. If you’re looking at transactions, in a word, 2010 was flat.

However, when you look beyond transactions and focus instead on other types of activity that took place in the management of loan portfolios, 2010 was quite dynamic. It was the year when large commercial, regional and community banks all shook off the torpor and shock of 2008 and 2009 and began, in earnest, to take a cold, hard look at their portfolios and make action plans for their ongoing management.

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