Finance

Banc of California Is Selling $2 Billion of Residential Loans

  • Banc of California acquired the loans after PacWest rescue
  • Morgan Stanley overseeing sale of business-purpose loans

A Banc of California branch in Wilmington, California.

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg
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Banc of California Inc., a regional bank, is selling about $2 billion of business-purpose mortgage loans in a process led by Morgan Stanley, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Banc of California picked up the loans after its acquisition Bloomberg Terminallate last year of PacWest Bancorp in a rescue deal, not long after fears of bank failures caused a run on deposits at regional lenders.