16 Aug 2011

South Canterbury Finance assets sold to Japan bank

8:14 pm on 16 August 2011

South Canterbury Finance's main assets - its consumer, business and rural loans - have been sold to Japanese investment bank Nomura.

The loans were valued at $123 million, but receivers Kerryn Downey and Williams Black of McGrathNicol say the price paid for them is confidential.

The loan portfolios are the last of South Canterbury Finance's non-risky bank business to be sold, following the sale of Face Finance in May this year.

The South-Island based lender was placed in receivership in August last year, costing taxpayers nearly $1.8 billion in payouts under the Government's retail deposit guarantee scheme.