Capital Relief Trades
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Car capital relief
JPM Chase tests the auto loan waters with new CRT deal
Investors and analysts have given a cautious welcome to the latest JP Morgan CRT deal - a $1.8bn auto loan securitization, which also marks the bank’s return to the auto loan sector market after an absence of 14 years.
The deal is being marketed at the moment. The loan pool consists of a prime retail auto loan portfolio consisting of 82,824 reference .......
News 21 August 2020
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Risk transfer round-up - 20 August
CRT sector developments and deal news
Banca Carige is rumoured to be readying a capital relief trade referencing corporate loans for 2H20. The transaction would be the Italian lender’s first significant risk transfer deal (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
....... News 20 August 2020
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SSRT trio revealed
Sector developments and company hires
SSRT trio revealed
Market Moves 19 August 2020
S&P has published its ratings and research on three previously privately-rated risk transfer RMBS issued by Freddie Mac, at the issuer's request. The trio of deals are STACR Single-Seller Risk Transfer (SSRT) Series 2019-CS02 (sized at US$245.2m and closed in March 2019), 2020-CS01 (US$578.36m; April) and 2020-CS02 (US$190.78m; July). The transactions transfer a portion of the risk .......
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Freddie trifecta
Freddie prints its third STACR since lockdown, while Fannie remains on sidelines
Freddie Mac yesterday priced another STACR deal, its third since lockdown conditions began in early March. Its 2020-DNA4 comprised $1.088bn of M1, M2, B1 and B2 tranches, and, like the previous two offerings there will be an associated ACIS insurance policy to transfer additional risk.
The $295m M1 tranche carries a 3% coupon with a weighted average life (WAL) of 2.13 years, .......
News 19 August 2020
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Maximum impact
Full deduction SRTs stage comeback
Supranational and private capital relief trade structures have had to be adjusted following the coronavirus fallout to address the impact of payment holidays on deal performance, according to SCI’s latest CRT Case Study. Both supranational and private investors have treated the issue with equal caution. However, full deduction significant risk transfer deals originated by standardised banks and solely backed .......
News Analysis 17 August 2020
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'Flip clause' complaint dismissed
Sector developments and company hires
‘Flip clause’ complaint dismissed
Market Moves 14 August 2020
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that investors should keep roughly US$1bn received from various Lehman Brothers affiliates after the bank’s 2008 bankruptcy filing triggered the liquidation of dozens of CDOs. The case centres on the Bankruptcy Code’s treatment of ‘flip clauses’ in a securitisation waterfall, which reprioritise cashflow upon bankruptcy and .......
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Hertz review reversed
Sector developments and company hires
Hertz review reversed
Market Moves 12 August 2020
Moody's has changed the direction of review for 11 tranches of rental car ABS issued by Hertz Vehicle Financing II (HVF II) to under review for upgrade from under review for downgrade. The action is prompted by: the recent court-approved order requiring Hertz to make lease payments and remit required vehicle sales proceeds (SCI 31 July), .......
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Freddie STACRs them up
New STACR deal was upsized and printed at the tight end across the capital structure
Freddie Mac has confirmed that the B1 and B2 tranches of its $835m STACR REMIC 2020-HQA3 deal, printed at the end of the week of July 20-24, were upsized from $150m to $225m and $75m to $100m respectively.
Each tranche of the four-tranche offering, underwritten by Citi and BNP Paribas, also priced at the tight end of guidance. In addition, .......
News 4 August 2020
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CRT conveyor belt
The second CRT deal from JPM marks a quickening of pace in the bank market
JPM’s second CRT deal in the last nine months, priced two weeks ago, is expected to attain the necessary regulatory approval, while other deals and, indeed, other issuers should follow the same path, say analysts.
The Chase Mortgage Reference Notes 2020-CL1 transferred risk on a $2.002bn reference pool of 8,683 prime quality residential mortgage loans.
“I would definitely expect them to .......
News Analysis 31 July 2020
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Risk transfer round-up - 31 July
CRT sector developments and deal news
Caixabank is rumoured to be readying a capital relief trade backed by consumer loans for 2H20. The lender’s last significant risk transfer trade was finalised in May 2019 and was called Gaudi Synthetic Three (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
....... News 31 July 2020
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Recovery vehicle
European securitisation 'fixes' on the cards?
The securitisation-related measures included in the European Commission’s capital markets recovery package have been welcomed for, among other things, removing the uncertainty regarding the EBA’s reluctance to recommend recalibrating the CRR for STS synthetics (SCI 24 July). However, the move could potentially also signal policymakers’ willingness to address the remaining securitisation ‘fixes’ that the industry has been calling .......
News Analysis 31 July 2020
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STACR surge
Freddie Mac galvanizes CRT re-opening with another STACR transaction
Freddie Mac has printed its second post-lockdown STACR deal, three weeks after re-opening the CRT debt market, with an upsized four-tranche $835m transaction. The deal was priced at the end of last week, confirmed a Freddie Mac spokesperson.
The offering, designated STACR 2020-HQA3, consisted of a M1 tranche priced at one-month Libor plus 155bp, an M2 tranche at one-month Libor plus 360bp, .......
News 29 July 2020
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SRT boost
BMO launches capital relief trade
Bank of Montreal (BMO) has completed a five-year financial guarantee that references US and Canadian senior secured and senior unsecured corporate loans. Dubbed Manitoulin Muskoka series 2020-2, the transaction is the bank’s third significant risk transfer deal this year. All three trades bring BMO’s total SRT tranche notional issuance so far in 2020 to US$494m, the Canadian lender’s largest .......
News 29 July 2020
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'Quick fix' for NPE, synthetic securitisation
Sector developments and company hires
‘Quick fix’ for NPE, synthetic securitisation
The European Commission has adopted a capital markets recovery package, as part of its overall coronavirus recovery strategy. The measures aim to make it easier for capital markets to support European businesses to recover from the crisis via targeted changes to capital market rules.Building on recent work by the EBA, the proposals .......
Market Moves 24 July 2020
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Qualitative approach?
Covid complicating CRT analytical processes
The Covid-19 fallout has complicated further the analytical process in connection with capital relief trades, given that the pandemic is having a skewed impact on different sectors of the economy. Against this backdrop, qualitative modelling approaches are gaining traction.
Whether a CRT issuer uses EBA, CCAR or their own internal scenarios, the impact of Covid-19 on stress tests .......
News Analysis 24 July 2020
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Issuance boost
Full-stack SRTs unlocked
BBVA and Santander have reopened the full-stack significant risk transfer market with the issuance of an auto ABS apiece in June and July respectively. However, full-stack securitisations widely syndicated to private investors and referencing Northern European exposures remain to be seen post-coronavirus. Consequently, arrangers are looking to Chenavari’s recently priced Aurorus 2020 consumer ABS for guidance (SCI 21 July).
News Analysis 24 July 2020
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Second CLN references WaMu loans
Sector developments and company hires
Second CLN references WaMu loans
Market Moves 21 July 2020
JPMorgan is in the market with its second public synthetic RMBS, Chase Mortgage Reference Notes 2020-CL1. Principal payments on the notes are based on the actual payments received and performance of a US$2bn reference pool consisting of 8,683 prime-quality residential mortgage loans. According to Fitch, the majority of the loans were originally negative amortisation loans originated .......
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Carrots and sticks
'Wide-ranging and ambitious' recommendations welcomed
The recommendations put forward by the High Level Forum on Capital Markets Union (CMU) last month have been welcomed by the European securitisation industry (SCI 11 June). However, while these measures – if implemented – should provide the necessary framework for a healthy and robust ABS market, they are far from being a silver bullet.
The High .......
News Analysis 21 July 2020
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Risk transfer round up - 15 July
CRT sector developments and deal news
Credit Agricole is rumoured to be readying a corporate capital relief trade that is expected to close in 2H20. The French lender’s last risk transfer trade was closed in March 2018 with the IFC (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
....... News 15 July 2020
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Risk transfer return
Intesa debuts post-Covid Italian SRT
Intesa Sanpaolo has returned to the synthetic securitisation market with a new transaction from its GARC programme. Dubbed GARC Leasing-1, the €107m cash collateralised equity tranche references a static €1.5bn portfolio of lease financing to 2,600 Italian SMEs. The transaction is the first Italian leasing SRT and the first private capital relief trade to be issued out of Italy .......
News Analysis 15 July 2020
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Fannie takes a step back
As Freddie issues a new STACR, Fannie revises CRT approach due to new capital rules
Uncertainty surrounding the impact of the re-proposed capital rules for the GSEs released by the Federal Finance Housing Authority (FHFA) on May 20 is causing Fannie Mae to hold back from CRT issuance, confirm market sources close to the agency.
“They’re trying to evaluate what the new capital rules might mean before they take the next step,” says one consultant.
At the beginning .......
News Analysis 14 July 2020