# Professor Roy Smith is interviewed about Donald Trump's personal debt

1 Faculty News September 16, 2016 ![WNYC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032168.jpg?itok=yBRML88U)>

Excerpt from [WNYC](http://www.wnyc.org/story/donald-trump-personal-debt/) -- "'Where are JPMorgan Chase, where are Bank of America, where are Citigroup? These are aggressive lenders to the real estate sector. In most instances, they are leaders in lending to this sector, so where are they?' asked [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. It could be that Trump has created a comfortable niche for himself, borrowing money from smaller local institutions instead of bigger banks, said Smith."

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