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Cantor Plans Fund to Finance Banks

Fund would issue up to $20 bln of commercial paper; take bank assets as collateral.

By Jody Shenn and Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg | Updated on June 05, 2012

Cantor Fitzgerald LP, the bond broker run by Howard Lutnick, is jumping into a part of the shadow banking system that shrank 73 percent in five years.

The firm is arranging a fund that aims to issue as much as $20 billion of commercial paper to help finance banks, the first of its kind to be rated this year by Moody’s Investors Service or Standard & Poor’s. The borrowing will be backed by arrangements that allow “major global banks” to shift assets of any type into the pool as collateral, with the promise of repurchasing them or covering losses.

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