ABS
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Italian market developments 'positive' for ABS
Sector developments and company hires
Italian market developments ‘positive’ for ABS
Recent market developments in in the Cessione del Quinto (CDQ) and Delegazione di Pagamento (DP) loan market are credit positive for ABS, according to structured finance analysts from Moody’s. The analysts add that increasing regulatory scrutiny limits the risk of poor underwriting, while lower capital requirements support further loan growth. Both developments .......
Market Moves 27 November 2019
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Indian innovation
Diverse Indian ABS market sees growing, global investor base
The Indian securitisation market continues to grow and develop, with an increasingly global investor base eager to tap into an ever-innovating product range, including CLOs, green bonds and microfinance-backed transactions. On top of this, new legislation proposes a government-backed partial guarantee structure for select transactions, which has the potential to enable almost US$15bn worth of placements with public sector .......
News Analysis 26 November 2019
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Mortgage partnership announced
Sector hires and company developments
Euro credit team bulks up
CIFC has hired Anders Samuelsen from Muzinich as it continues to build its European team. Samuelsen, who began his career as a credit portfolio manager at Saxo Privatbank in Denmark, will be based in London, and joins as vp, focusing on northern Europe. CIFC has also announced the hire of Aidan Reynolds, from .......
Market Moves 25 November 2019
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SCI Start the week - 25 November
A review of securitisation activity over the past seven days
Transaction of the week
Alpha Bank is set to securitise a €12bn mixed portfolio of retail secured and unsecured loans, mortgage and wholesale non-performing loans in 1H20. Dubbed Project Galaxy, the transaction protects shareholders from dilution and is one of the first to utilise the Greek government's Hercules asset protection scheme (HAPS) (SCI 11 October).
Alpha .......
News 25 November 2019
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FRTB consultation launched
Sector developments and company hires
APAC poll highlights key risks
More than 80% of market participants polled by Moody’s at its recent Asia Pacific Structured Finance Conference in Singapore identified slowing global economic growth as posing a key risk for the Asia Pacific finance sector in 2020. In particular, 54% of respondents said that trade tensions were the biggest threat to Asia Pacific economies next year – .......
Market Moves 22 November 2019
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New ground
O&G securitisations open up new asset class to ABS investors
For the first time, working interests in oil and gas wellbores have been securitised, marking a new partnership between the oil and gas and ABS industry. These deals have been warmly received by investors and potential issuers, with more transactions expected to follow.
Diversified Gas and Oil (DGO) recently announced an inaugural US$200m securitisation and the first deal backed by .......
News Analysis 22 November 2019
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Ceo retires
Sector developments and company hires
Capital markets head appointed
23 Capital has hired Sreesha Vaman as md, head of capital markets. 23 Capital is a capital and solutions provider focused on the sports, music and entertainment sectors. Vaman has more than 15 years of experience across the finance, investment banking, sports and entertainment landscape and is joining the team’s New York office with .......
Market Moves 21 November 2019
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Ramping up
Standard Chartered boosts corporate issuance
Standard Chartered has completed a US$135m CLN that references a US$1.5bn portfolio of US and European corporate revolvers. Dubbed Chakra 4, the deal was carried out for both credit risk management and capital relief purposes.
The disclosed pool totals approximately 150 loans - mainly undrawn commitments - with a replenishment period equal to three years and weighted average life equal .......
News 21 November 2019
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Legal firm beefs up
Sector developments and company hires
GSE capital rule eyed
The FHFA plans to re-propose the entire regulation on capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sometime next year, stating that the 2018 capital rule was proposed before it began the process of retaining capital at the GSEs as a first step towards ending their conservatorships. The agency says that the new rule will be .......
Market Moves 20 November 2019
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Hercules tapped
Alpha Bank preps NPL securitisation
Alpha Bank is set to securitise a €12bn mixed portfolio of retail secured and unsecured loans, mortgage and wholesale non-performing loans in 1H20. Dubbed Project Galaxy, the transaction protects shareholders from dilution and is one of the first to utilise the Greek government’s Hercules asset protection scheme (HAPS) (SCI 11 October).
Alpha Bank’s main priority is to .......
News 20 November 2019
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Italian AM expands to US
Sector developments and company hires
Azimut expands
Italian asset manager Azimut has established a US-based operation named Azimut Alternative Capital Partners (AACP), with the purpose of investing in GP stakes of alternative managers specialised in the private markets space. Concurrently, it signed an investment and shareholder agreement with AACP’s new ceo Jeffry Brown to execute a 10-year business plan, which aims to build .......
Market Moves 19 November 2019
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Growth surge?
Russian structured bonds expected to grow
The Russian structured finance market has traditionally been dominated by a small number of asset classes and securitised issuance volumes have remained low compared to the US and Europe. This may soon change, however, after regulation introduced last year paved the way for the development of structured bonds which, after a slow start, may see an uptick in issuance as .......
News 19 November 2019
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US CRT pick-up?
Volumes to remain restricted to large banks
The US capital relief trades market is witnessing a long-awaited uptick, with three deals reportedly being readied. JPMorgan’s recent landmark synthetic RMBS appears to have boosted issuance (SCI 10 October), although volume is expected to remain restricted to large banks that will have to tackle a number of regulatory challenges.
US banks have been seeking to .......
News Analysis 18 November 2019
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Structured credit head announced
Sector developments and company hires
Acquisition finalised
Artex has completed the acquisition of Horseshoe Insurance Services Holdings. This acquisition significantly strengthens its ILS operations and furthers the company’s goal to become the best service provider to the world’s risk capital. Horseshoe will become the global brand of ILS services for Artex, which will operate as one global team across multiple jurisdictions. Andre Perez and his .......
Market Moves 18 November 2019
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SME programmes launched
EIF supports two inaugural funding initiatives
The EIF has for the first time provided funding support for a German online SME lending platform. In another first, the EIF has announced a funding guarantee to support lending to French cooperatives.
German online lending platform creditshelf has launched a diversified closed-ended private debt fund, with €30m being provided by the EIF. It will have a target size will be up .......
News 18 November 2019
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Full-stack trend continues
FCA completes Italian auto SRT
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has completed a €912.6m true sale significant risk transfer securitisation backed by Italian auto loans. Dubbed A-BEST 17, the full-stack ABS differs from previous transactions from the same programme, given the inclusion of pro-rata amortisation and a deferred purchase price mechanism.
Rated by Fitch and DBRS, the transaction consists of €810m class A notes .......
News 15 November 2019
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Morgan loan prepays
Sector developments and company hires
Coupon swaps planned
The New York Fed's open market trading desk plans to conduct four small value agency RMBS coupon swap operations on 19 and 21 November. On these days, the desk intends to swap out of three unsettled December TBA positions – 30-year UMBS 3% coupon, 15-year UMBS 2.5% coupon and 30-year Ginnie Mae II 3.5% coupon – for .......
Market Moves 15 November 2019
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Risk transfer round-up - 15 November
CRT sector developments and deal news
Santander is rumoured to be prepping a synthetic securitisation of German consumer loans. This is one of two synthetic consumer ABS deals it is said to be readying this quarter, following a slew of consumer SRTs issued by the bank this year (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
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ERLS returns
Lone Star prints Irish NPL RMBS
Lone Star has priced its latest Irish non-performing loan RMBS at the same levels as its previous ERLS deal from July. Dubbed European Residential Loan Securitisation 2019-NPL2, the deal is backed by mortgages from the €1.34bn Project Glas portfolio acquired from Permanent TSB in 2018.
Rated by DBRS and Moody’s, the transaction consists of A/A2 rated class A .......
News 15 November 2019
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Landmark ABS inked
UniCredit completes large corporate ABS
UniCredit has completed what is believed to be the largest European ABS transaction post-crisis. Dubbed Impresa Two, the deal is a departure from previous securitisations, given the inclusion of large corporate loans in the portfolio.
The two-year revolving cash securitisation is backed by a €11.05bn portfolio of secured and unsecured loans granted by UniCredit to SMEs, mid-cap .......
News 14 November 2019
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Alhambra priced
SME ABS gets over the line at last
The long-awaited Spanish SME ABS Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1 has priced. The closest Europe has yet seen to a public middle market CLO came in broadly in line with updated guidance.
Originally called Alhambra SME Funding 2018-1, the deal was first announced in June last year and expected to price that December (SCI 21 November 2018). It consists of .......
News 14 November 2019