Summary: Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) obtained a US$ 166 million three-year
ninja loan from international banks for general corporate purposes.
signed a debut $166 million 3-year
Ninja Loan facility on 23 March 2016.
Commercial Bank has signed a debut $166mn three-year
Ninja Loan facility, which is the first one for a GCC financial institution.
And one could argue that a loan to the government of Greece or Portugal affords little more security than a
NINJA loan. Indeed, lending to governments and banks in the European periphery represents the European equivalent of subprime lending in the US (which was also concentrated in a few sunshine states).
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And the dramatic-sounding "
ninja loan" is defined as "a type of high-risk loan issued to borrowers with no income, no job, and no assets", while a "bank run or a run on a bank" is explained as "a rush to withdraw funds from a bank by customers fearing the bank's imminent insolvency".
An example is the sub-prime mortgage market in America - including the
NINJA loans issued to people with No Income, No Job and no Assets.
Just look at America's so-called
Ninja loans - to people with No Income, No Job or Assets - which sparked the current crisis.