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Excess Spread — Catalogue of dreams, courting disasters, too many cars

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Excess Spread — Catalogue of dreams, courting disasters, too many cars

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  1. Owen Sanderson
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Excess Spread is our weekly newsletter, covering trends, deals and more in structured credit and ABS. Find out more about 9fin for structured credit here.

Catalogue of dreams

Now that I have children of my own, I would never allow the Argos catalogue to enter my house. Journalism doesn't pay nearly enough to satisfy the boundless acquisitive desire of a five-year old girl.

But I remember it fondly, and, under the protective umbrella of Sainsbury's, the business has carried on successfully, pivoting to online sales collected within Sainsbury’s stores, when most of the British high street brands of my youth have restructured or imploded entirely.

What, then, to make of the sale of a large portfolio of Argos co-branded credit cards to NewDay? The portfolio is £800m of receivables, bought for £720m, and funded in part by a £60m vendor loan note. We've seen no loan tapes and modelled no collateral, but hear the process was highly competitive, suggesting seller Sainsbury's Bank scored a good result.

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