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Non-Tech : Sally Mae and the Student Loan Swindle
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From: Peter Dierks4/16/2007 10:52:30 PM
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Downgrades for Sallie Mae?
By Aparajita Saha-Bubna and Anusha Shrivastava
Word Count: 578 | Companies Featured in This Article: SLM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America
SLM Corp.'s investment-grade credit ratings are in jeopardy as the largest U.S. lender to college students has agreed to a private buyout valued at about $25 billion.

The three major ratings agencies put the lender, also known as Sallie Mae, on notice for possible downgrade, warning that a multinotch cut is likely if Sallie Mae is purchased under the terms offered by two private-investment funds and banks J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp.

"The transaction, if consummated, would lead to a multiple-notch downgrade of SLM's ratings, potentially to speculative grade," said Moody's Investors Service in a ...

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