[UK] Advantage - Morgan Stanley - Subprime
2008-05-22
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stories: reuters.com
Reuters reported today that Morgan Stanley announced the final shut down of Advantage, its UK residential mortgage unit, would be on 2008-06-16. Advantage had withdrawn "all mortgage products and announced plans to close" some three months prior.
"Advantage was one of a string of specialist units, often backed by investment banks, which piled into the UK non-confirming mortgage market over the past few years on the back of a booming securitization market, but have since been forced to close down."
The article says Advantage employed 150 people.
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