{"id":17277,"date":"2010-08-19T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17277"},"modified":"2010-08-19T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:37:12","slug":"consumer-finance-a-tough-buy-for-private-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/consumer-finance-a-tough-buy-for-private-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Consumer finance a tough buy for private funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Private equity firms and hedge  funds are eyeing U.S. consumer finance assets, but despite a recent  Fortress Investment Group LLC deal, they are likely to find it hard to  do many more.<\/p>\n<p>Banks such as  HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc are scaling down their exposure to  the business, so credit availability is shrinking for the subprime  consumers that such companies cater to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/idINIndia-50938020100819\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Private equity firms and hedge funds are eyeing U.S. consumer finance assets, but despite a recent Fortress Investment Group LLC deal, they are likely to find it hard to do many more. Banks such as HSBC Holdings Plc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17278,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17277\/revisions\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}