Consolidate Students

Some banking industry experts have long regarded the federal student loan program, established in 1965, as one of the most successful public-private partnerships ever created. A historically steady and reliable source of financing for parents and college students needing help paying for school, the federal student loan program also used to be a mostly risk-free and profitable venture for private lenders issuing government-backed student loans.

On July 28, just a few weeks before the fall semester gets underway, some 40,000 college students in Massachusetts suddenly found themselves facing outstanding tuition bills with no money to pay them, when the nonprofit Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority announced that it wouldn’t be able to provide any private student loans for the upcoming semester. MEFA, the largest issuer of student loans to Massachusetts residents, had already suspended its federal student loan program back in April.

NextStudent Inc. announced today that it intends to explore alternatives for creating liquidity for the outstanding auction rate notes issued by NextStudent Master Trust I.

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