Nordic Market Overview, March 2025
Nordic Market Overview, March 2025
Bank & Finance, attractive IRR-levels in the Nordics
Stockholm 2025-03-13
Market overview:
We at Helix Ice continue to share our knowledge regarding the latest trends and business information for the Nordic NPL market.
Who´s buying in the Nordics and when is it the best time to sell NPL portfolios? That has the two most frequent asked questions for more than a year now that I´m being asked from sellers of NPL portfolios, especially within Bank & Finance. We currently have openings in some segments, in which not so many NPL buyers compete, which gives us a good opportunity to invest at attractive IRR levels. Our deal pipeline also looks good for the coming year as we notice a high, steady yearly volume of NPL portfolios coming out to the market from our bigger established niche banks.
Securitizations is still an option in the Nordics for NPL portfolios and we have been part of setting up that for the last years but it is also obvious that the Sellers, if they can choose, still wants to go with an ordinary FF or OO deal. This as the administration work for a new securitization, even if they already been involved in one earlier, is time consuming and the administration work too heavy for the department in the bank taking care of the sale of NPL portfolios.
We had a good couple of days at the DDC Investor Summit in Prague last year which gave us interesting ideas for new type of structures that we could implement in the Nordics. In the end of March, we will participate in London at NPL Europe 2025 hosted by SmithNovak. Always an interesting event with a lot of chances to meet up with colleagues from the industry and a chance to meet up with potential investors. If you also will attend, let us know and we can try to find a slot to meet up with you.
We have noticed an increasing interest from bigger investors to enter the Nordics and are looking forward to guide some of them to their first investments in this region. During 2025 we see a big potential for upcoming unsecured Bank & Finance NPL portfolios in the Nordics on attractive IRR levels. We have both the investment structure ready and the established contact with Sellers.
Feel free to contact us for a dialogue regarding the NPL market in the Nordic region and to discuss different type of securitization solutions, market opportunities or different type of collaborations. And if you plan to visit the Nordics, lets meet up in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo or Helsinki to discuss your views on the latest trends in the NPL portfolio business. We at Helix Ice are always interested in sharing knowledge regarding the upcoming NPL transactions across the Nordics and talk about different type of solutions for how you can get best possible return of investment.