Capital Relief Trades
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German bank eyes programmatic SRT issuance after debut CRE deal
SRT Market Update
SRT Market Update 7 November 2025
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Job swaps weekly: Arcmont makes trio of senior hires
People moves and key promotions in securitisation
This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Arcmont making three senior appointments spanning structured credit, NAV financing, real estate, asset-backed investing and impact lending. Elsewhere, BSL and CLO electronic trading platform Octaura has named a new chief financial officer, while Rockstead has named a successor to outgoing ceo and co-founder Brian Pitt.
Arcmont Asset Management has made .......
Market Moves 7 November 2025
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Issuers turn to CRE and RMBS for next wave of SRT growth
Basel IV triggers CRE and RMBS SRT surge in Europe
News 4 November 2025
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SCI In Conversation Podcast: Pietro Bellone, A&O Shearman
We discuss the hottest topics in securitisation today...
In this episode of SCI In Conversation, Pietro Bellone, structured finance and securitisation partner at A&O Shearman, joins SCI senior reporter Nadezhda Bratanova to discuss current SRT trends such as the role of infrastructure and project finance assets in synthetic deals, and how these are expanding the scope of uniquely positioned Italian markets.
In light of A&O’s recent advisory .......
News Analysis 30 October 2025
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New UK CRE deal attracts strong investor interest
SRT market update
SRT Market Update 30 October 2025
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SCI Risk Sharing Awards: Outstanding Contribution to SRT
Winners: Georges Duponcheele and William Perraudin
SCI’s 2025 Outstanding Contribution to SRT Award celebrates Great Lakes Insurance senior credit portfolio manager Georges Duponcheele and Risk Control md William Perraudin, and their longstanding efforts and contribution to the industry’s regulatory debate.
Notably, their 2024 paper - Rethinking the Securitisation Risk Weight Floor - in which they and their other co-authors linked risk .......
News 28 October 2025
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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
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UK lender securitises CRE exposure
SRT market update
Lloyds Bank is expected to price a £500m synthetic securitisation referencing a portfolio of CRE exposures by the end of this week (week-ending October 31), sources tell SCI.
The transaction is part of the UK lender’s Wetherby program and includes a £35m mezzanine tranche, equivalent to around 7% of the referenced portfolio, which is understood to have priced .......
SRT Market Update 28 October 2025
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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.
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News 28 October 2025
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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
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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
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US regionals line up to do deals
The small US regional bank CRT market is hotting up
News 24 October 2025
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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
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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
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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