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reggiemiller,

Great post! I do recall reading in the 29th August Announcment that part of the conditions of the debt extensions where that the banks got a fixed and floating charge on CNP in order to partially elleviate some of teh risk/concern of their unsecured positions.

A charge over the assets means that the banks would come first regardless of any take over offer of any kind from a consortium.