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  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: SRT Team of the Year

    Winner: Seer Capital

    Seer Capital’s regular and accessible research publications are widely viewed as the gold standard for intelligence on SRTs, showcasing a high level of market knowledge and often addressing misconceptions about the product or other advocacy issues. For facilitating transparency and debate across the SRT market, the firm is SCI’s pick for Team of the Year in the 2025 .......

    News 28 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Service Provider of the Year

    Winner: Cardo AI

    The degree of automation and scalability provided by the Cardo AI platform creates genuine efficiency in the portfolio optimisation process. For pioneering the application of AI technology to the structuring, monitoring and analytics reporting of SRT transactions, the firm is SCI’s Service Provider of the Year in the 2025 Risk Sharing Awards.

    The Cardo AI platform .......

    News 28 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: North American Law Firm of the Year

    Winner: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown prides itself on providing US market participants with comprehensive, cutting-edge legal counsel for risk transfer transactions, combining deep technical expertise with practical, hands-on experience. For the breadth of its representations and its involvement in several market innovations over the qualifying period, the firm is SCI’s North American Law Firm of the Year in the 2025 Risk .......

    News 27 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: European Law Firm of the Year

    Winner: A&O Shearman

    A&O Shearman’s CRT platform is a unique offering: fully transatlantic capability, trusted counsel to both the sell-side and buy-side, and a key player in industry advocacy. As such, is SCI’s European Law Firm of the Year in the 2025 Risk Sharing Awards.

    Few practices can match the reach, depth and momentum of A&O Shearman’s Capital Relief .......

    News 27 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: North American Arranger of the Year

    Winner: Scotiabank

    Scotiabank demonstrated excellent arranging and structuring skills with the successful execution of the US$7bn Cabot 2025-1, one of the largest and tightest-priced North American synthetic risk transfer (SRT) trades of the year. For building robust in-house capabilities to support SRT transactions with a high degree of efficiency and transparency, as well as establishing strong global market connectivity, the bank .......

    News 24 October 2025

  • Job swaps weekly: BTG Pactual snaps up alternative credit veteran

    People moves and key promotions in securitisation

    This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees BTG Pactual Global Alternatives hiring a former cofounder of CVC Credit Partners to lead its performing credit and CLO strategies. Elsewhere, Obra Capital has named a new md of real estate origination, while Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired two senior team members with extensive structured finance expertise.

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    Market Moves 24 October 2025

  • SCI In Focus: Building teams for a new era

    Talent strategy a competitive differentiator in an evolving securitisation market

    The saying goes that there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is in the core values for teams in today’s structured finance market: interdisciplinarity, international coverage and innovation. Firms across the ecosystem, from rating agencies to law practices, are rethinking how their teams need to be built and what expertise the market now demands. 

    The classic .......

    News Analysis 24 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: European Arranger of the Year

    Winner: Alantra

    Alantra demonstrated outstanding breadth and depth across the European SRT market during the awards qualifying period, assisting a number of regional and domestic banks on landmark transactions and driving consistency between jurisdictions. For its independent, conflict-free advice, regulatory fluency and proven client impact, Alantra is recognised as SCI’s European Arranger of the Year in the 2025 Risk Sharing .......

    News 24 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: North American Issuer of the Year

    Winner: Citi

    Citi’s Terra Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) programme stands out as one of the most active, robust and efficiently executed in the market. Due to the bank’s consistent presence in the global risk sharing market and as one of the most well-known issuers in the North American market, Citi is North American Issuer of the Year in SCI’s 2025 .......

    News 23 October 2025

  • Rare multi-lender SBA securitisation prints

    Alternative lenders reshaping small business finance amid search for liquidity solutions

    Community Bank & Trust, a US regional lender, has completed a rare multi-lender securitisation of unguaranteed portions of SBA loans. The U$118.9m transaction is seen as a catalyst for future small business ABS, as it provides access to capital markets for institutions that lack the scale to securitise independently.

    Community Bank & Trust worked with Falcon Bridge .......

    News Analysis 23 October 2025

  • Established asset managers seek scale in European ABF

    Collateralised, data-driven origination to drive next phase of private credit growth 

    With ABF becoming the fastest-growing frontier of private credit, established asset managers are now making moves to stake their claim and secure a share of the market. A new whitepaper from Cardo AI - entitled ‘Emerging ABF strategies for Established Asset Managers’ - argues that the European market is reaching an inflection point, .......

    Talking Point 23 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: European Issuer of the Year

    Winner: Intesa Sanpaolo

    Intesa Sanpaolo achieved a high SRT transaction volume, both by deal count (seven) and notional value (€12bn), across diverse asset classes and formats during the awards period. For the bank’s impressive expansion into leveraged/acquisition finance and commercial real estate SRTs - in conjunction with enhanced distribution outreach efforts - Intesa Sanpaolo is European Issuer of the Year in SCI’s .......

    News 23 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: (Re)insurer of the Year

    Winner: AXIS

    AXIS participated in a wide range of transactions during the awards period, demonstrating broad asset class expertise. For this and its flexibility in providing both senior mezzanine unfunded coverage and low attachment points on granular portfolios, it is (Re)insurer of the Year in SCI’s 2025 Risk Sharing Awards.

    AXIS offers a unique value proposition by leveraging .......

    News 22 October 2025

  • ABF Deal Digest: GCI vets helm new container platform

    A weekly roundup of private asset-backed financing activity

    AB CarVal launches evergreen fund 

    AllianceBernstein has launched an evergreen ABF fund, the AB CarVal Credit Opportunities Fund. The new fund marks the firm’s latest expansion into semi-liquid private credit and follows on from its US interval fund launched late last year. The new ABF fund similarly aims to outperform high-yield bonds over time, with lower volatility .......

    News 22 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Investor of the Year

    Winner: Chorus Capital

    The only major independent SRT-focused asset manager, Chorus Capital raised US$2.5bn of capital commitments during the awards period via the Chorus Capital Credit Fund V, the largest dedicated fund in the market. Having invested over US$1bn in 1H25, cementing the firm in the ranks of the largest investors in the risk-sharing market, it is SCI’s pick for Investor of .......

    News 22 October 2025

  • Enpal and M&G expand partnership with €700m warehouse

    Clean-energy firm ramps up refinancing ahead of issuing its...

    Enpal has established a €700m warehouse with M&G to refinance its growing portfolio of residential solar and heat-pump loans. At the same time, the clean-energy firm is preparing a second ABS before year-end that is expected to be Europe’s first public heat pump-backed securitisation. 

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: ESG Deal of the Year

    Winner: Scaling4Impact

    Scaling4Impact stands out for its multiple ‘firsts’ and its broad-reaching impact. For making a real-world difference across Latin American and emerging market countries, the transaction is SCI’s pick for ESG Deal of the Year in the 2025 Risk Sharing Awards. 

    In September 2024, Newmarket Capital completed the US$1bn Scaling4Impact (S4I), its second significant risk transfer (SRT) .......

    News 21 October 2025

  • MPOWER closes debut private student loan securitisation

    US fintech plans programmatic private deals alongside annual public ABS issuance

    MPOWER Financing has completed its first private securitisation, a U$100.5m transaction including refi loans alongside its core international student lending. The transaction is part of MPOWER’s strategy to move beyond public ABS issuance in the student loan market.

    The private deal represents what cfo Jatin Rajput describes as a natural evolution of the firm’s capital markets strategy. .......

    News 21 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: European Transaction of the Year

    Winner: ARTS Leasing 2024

    The €2.5bn ARTS Leasing 2024 deal represents the largest fully unfunded SRT ever placed with (re)insurers and the first to reference corporate/SME real estate leasing exposures. For demonstrating how the insurance market can be tapped by issuers to cover more complex risk in size, the trade is SCI’s European Transaction of the Year in the 2025 .......

    News 20 October 2025

  • SCI Risk Sharing Awards: North American Transaction of the Year

    Winner: EJF CRT 2025-1

    EJF CRT 2025-1 established a precedent for smaller financial institutions aiming to adopt synthetic securitisations to manage and mitigate their exposures. For illustrating that complex risk management strategies can be tailored to support the growth and stability of smaller US banks and lenders, the transaction is SCI’s pick for North American Transaction of the Year in the 2025 .......

    News 20 October 2025

  • Job swaps weekly: White & Case names new partners for 2026

    People moves and key promotions in securitisation

    This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees White & Case has announced a swathe of promotions to partner across multiple regions. Elsewhere, Raymond James has acquired a majority stake in a boutique investment bank, while Värde Partners has made two senior hires on its asset-based finance team.

    White & Case has promoted 45 lawyers to its partnership, .......

    Market Moves 17 October 2025
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