Capital Relief Trades
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: (Re)insurer of the Year
Winner: AXIS
AXIS has been named (Re)insurer of the Year in SCI’s 2026 Risk Sharing Awards. The award recognises the team’s disciplined growth, technical expertise and contribution to notable multilateral, emerging-market and other innovative significant risk transfer (SRT) transactions during the awards period.
Since entering the SRT market in 2022, AXIS has built the business deliberately and on a risk-controlled .......
News 15 October 2026
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Investor of the Year
Winner: Newmarket Capital
In recognition of its specialist expertise in SRT, disciplined underwriting approach and ability to execute complex and less conventional mandates, Newmarket is SCI’s pick for Investor of the Year in the 2026 Risk Sharing Awards.
The firm's team has spent more than a decade using regulatory capital relief and risk-sharing transactions to unlock real-economy lending. During the qualifying .......
News 14 October 2026
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Innovation of the Year
Winner: Allica ENABLE Guarantee
News 14 October 2026
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Emerging Markets Transaction of the Year
Winner: Chrysalis
News 13 October 2026
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SRT targets project finance loans backing energy transition
SRT market update
SRT Market Update 13 October 2026
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: North American Transaction of the Year
Winner: Project Hudson
News 12 October 2026
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: European Transaction of the Year
Winner: EGB SME 2025-1
News 12 October 2026
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South Korea assesses potential for SRT market
South Korean banks could unlock capital through SRT, but dev...
South Korean banks could use significant risk transfer transactions to reduce risk-weighted assets and free up capital for lending, according to an analysis published on the Asian Development Bank’s Development Asia platform.
The analysis identifies corporate loans with relatively high-risk weights as a potential source of significant capital relief.
SRT could also provide an alternative investment .......
News 12 October 2026
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Latest SRTx fixings released
SRT spreads tighten as credit concerns and volatility rise
The latest SRTx fixings for September point to a market in which spread expectations have tightened across all four categories, even as volatility and credit-risk sentiment deteriorated. Liquidity conditions improved in Europe but weakened for US SME transactions, highlighting a divergence between pricing expectations and broader market sentiment.
The September readings suggest that investor demand for significant risk transfer remains resilient, with .......
News Analysis 9 October 2026
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SRT turns a new page
The SCI World Risk Sharing Summit highlighted SRT's expandin...
The SRT market is expanding into new asset classes, attracting a broader investor base and converging across funded and unfunded structures. But its resilience under stress remains a key question, speakers said at the SCI World Risk Sharing Summit yesterday.
Discussions highlighted how the market’s rapid growth is creating new opportunities while raising questions around credit performance, regulatory .......
News 9 October 2026
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EU investor sanctions risk backfiring, AFME, EFAMA warn
AFME and EFAMA warned EU lawmakers that investor sanctions could deter securitisation investment
AFME and EFAMA have urged EU lawmakers to remove proposed sanctions on institutional investors from the final review of the EU Securitisation Regulation, warning that the measures could result in overlapping penalties for the same breach and deter investment in the asset class.
The associations' letter comes as co-legislators enter the final stages of trilogue negotiations, with .......
News 8 October 2026
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Brazil banks look for SRTs to unlock climate finance
Synthetic deals that transfer credit risk to investors while...
Brazil has the money for the financing energy transition. What it lacks are projects that lenders are comfortable financing, according to industry experts on the 2026 Blended Finance Journey “De-risking Brazil: instruments for financing the transition" webinar.
"The capital exists. What we need are the instruments to make it flow. There is no magic answer,” said Cláudia Pratos, sustainability director at the .......
News 6 October 2026
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Italian lender completes SRT with strong investor demand
SRT market update
SRT Market Update 6 October 2026
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Unpacking the ECB's SRT rollover risk concerns
What makes SRT rollover risk more systemic than other refi risks banks already manage?
The European Central Bank’s blog ‘Can synthetic securitisation support economic growth?’ remains central to ongoing market discussions weeks after it found a limited link between synthetic securitisation and corporate loan growth, as SCI previously reported.
The blog also highlighted rollover risk as one of the central bank's key concerns around the growing use of synthetic risk .......
News Analysis 5 October 2026
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SRT-style junior-investor model gains traction in UK SME market
SRT market update
SRT Market Update 2 October 2026
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SCI In Focus: EU securitisation talks close in on endgame
EU securitisation talks narrow key differences, but supervis...
EU policymakers have narrowed several differences in negotiations over the bloc's securitisation framework, with prudential calibration, the sole-purpose test and significant risk transfer provisions moving closer to finalisation at technical level.
Documents obtained by SCI provide a detailed account of the positions taken by the European Parliament, Council and European Commission during the latest round of negotiations. The third .......
News Analysis 2 October 2026