Don Hankey, the chairman and majority shareholder of Knight Specialty Insurance, told CNN on Tuesday that the deal to underwrite former President Donald Trump’s US$175 million bond in New York came together quickly and that Trump posted all cash as collateral.
“It’s what we do. I’m happy to do it. We would have done it for anybody else,” Hankey said in a phone interview. “It was an easy transaction. It was put together very quickly.”
Based in California, Knight Specialty Insurance is known for providing subprime auto loans to car buyers with weaker credit scores.
Hankey, who has supported Trump’s presidential campaigns, said initially he reached out to the Trump Organization last month when the former president was having trouble putting together a bond of US$464 million. Hankey has amassed a fortune that Forbes values at US$7.4 billion.
“We had a conversation about putting together a bond of…
