PVE Capital in €408m Italian NPL buy

PVE Capital, a European credit investment firm, has bought a €408m portfolio of Italian non-performing loans, reports Private Debt Investor, our sister publication. The book comprises residential and commercial real estate loans, with the former making up around 75% of the assets, said Gennaro Pucci, founder of PVE Capital PVE raised a new credit fund from third-party investors in just two weeks in January to support the purchase from a small Italian private bank, Pucci said. He declined to say what the total size of PVE European Credit Fund I is but explained that it holds between 20% and 30% of the Italian NPL portfolio.