Capital Relief Trades
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CRE CRT inked
Innovative financial guarantee debuts
Raiffeisen has completed an approximately €95m unfunded financial guarantee that references a €1.2bn portfolio of Austrian, German, Czech and Slovak commercial real estate loans. Dubbed Roof CRE 2019, the significant risk transfer trade differs from previous Roof transactions, given that it combines assets booked in different units of the bank.
Oliver Fuerst, head of active credit management at .......
News 24 October 2019
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Risk transfer round-up - 18 October
CRT sector developments and deal news
Nordea is rumoured to be prepping a corporate capital relief trade for this year. The Nordic lender’s last risk transfer transaction - dubbed Archean I - closed in August 2016 (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
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Best in class
SCI Capital Relief Trades Awards winners revealed
The winners of SCI’s inaugural Capital Relief Trades Awards were revealed at a ceremony last night. The selections reflect the vibrancy and innovation evident across the risk transfer market over the last 12 months and emphasise the utility of synthetic securitisation - not only as a risk management tool, but also as a way of mobilising private capital .......
News 18 October 2019
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Optimisation opportunities
Synthetic, true sale options explored for emerging markets
Qbera Capital has plans to deliver innovative balance sheet optimisation strategies to financial institutions and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in emerging markets. With a particular focus on African, Middle Eastern and Indian firms, Qbera Capital is looking at the possibility of utilising various strategies, including true-sale and synthetic securitisation methods, to help these companies achieve both risk transfer and funding .......
News Analysis 16 October 2019
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Positive impact
Capital allocation factor debuts
Societe Generale has completed an innovative risk transfer transaction that, for the first time, incorporates a capital allocation factor that incentivises additional positive impact finance lending. Mariner Investment Group has purchased the junior tranche of notes through its IIFC platform.
Dubbed Jupiter, the US$3.4bn transaction references more than 250 loans in over 40 countries across a variety of .......
News 16 October 2019
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Meaningful constituent?
Perceived difference between IRB, standardised banks narrowing
Recent transactions imply that the difference between how IRB and standardised banks are perceived by capital relief trade market participants is narrowing. However, opinions vary on whether standardised banks can ever become a meaningful constituent in significant risk transfer, given the barriers to entry that remain.
Synthetic securitisation only became a viable option for standardised banks when the .......
News Analysis 14 October 2019
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Framework focus
EBA synthetics paper welcomed, despite concerns
Risk transfer market participants have welcomed the EBA’s discussion paper on STS synthetics (SCI 25 September); in particular, the standardisation that it espouses for capital relief trades. However, concerns remain over the absence of any preferential capital treatment, the collateral requirements and the banning of synthetic excess spread.
Leanne Banfield, counsel at Linklaters, explains: “The discussion at .......
News Analysis 11 October 2019
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CRT line-up finalised
Awards ceremony to round off risk transfer event
The line-up for SCI’s 5th Annual Capital Relief Trades Seminar on 17 October has been finalised. Hosted by Allen & Overy, the event will take place at One Bishops Square, London and features for the first time an industry awards ceremony. Other highlights include a fireside chat between Clifford Chance’s Jessica Littlewood and the EBA’s Christian Moor, as well .......
News 11 October 2019
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Risk transfer round-up - 10 October
Capital relief trade sector developments and deal news
RBS is rumoured to be readying a capital relief trade backed by project finance loans. According to SCI data, this would be the issuer’s first project finance risk transfer transaction (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
The most active issuer of project finance CRTs has been Santander. SCI data note that five out of the seven such ......
News 10 October 2019Premium Content
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Synthetic RMBS debut
Non-GSE CRT deal prepped
JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMCB) is marketing what is believed to be the first rated synthetic mortgage risk transfer transaction originated by a US bank – Chase Mortgage Reference Notes 2019-CL1. The deal utilises tranched CDS documentation to transfer credit risk to noteholders, with principal payments based on the actual payments received from a reference pool consisting of 979 prime-quality .......
News 10 October 2019
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Rating challenges
Limited appetite for rated senior mezz
Issuers have typically refrained from seeking ratings on the senior mezzanine tranches of dual-tranche capital relief trades, due to stricter eligibility criteria, cost considerations and the fact that most SRT investors don’t need ratings. Nevertheless, rating senior mezzanine tranches is one way of attracting new investors to the sector (SCI 26 January 2018), thereby helping to expand the .......
News Analysis 7 October 2019
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Risk transfer round-up - 4 October
Capital relief trade sector developments and deal news
HSBC is rumoured to be readying a corporate capital relief trade for 4Q19. According to SCI data, the lender’s last risk transfer transaction was completed in December 2015 and was dubbed Metrix Portfolio Distribution (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
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Spanish SRT finalised
Santander completes full-stack auto ABS
Santander has priced a €555.5m true sale significant risk transfer transaction dubbed Santander Consumer Spain Auto 2019-1. The full-stack deal has been driven by new regulatory guidelines on excess spread and adds to this year’s healthy flow of full-stack SRT issuance (SCI passim).
The transaction consists of €440m class A notes (which priced at 45bp), €57.7m class B notes (85bp), .......
News 4 October 2019
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Nascent stages
CRT mezz investor base needs time to develop
The pace of growth of the risk transfer market is likely to be tied to the development of the synthetic mezzanine risk market, which is currently at a nascent stage (SCI 9 August). Traditional capital relief trade investors have limited appetite for mezz, as absolute returns are low, even though the risk/reward proposition is compelling.
“There is .......
News 3 October 2019
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Portfolio-based cover opportunities eyed
New reinsurance platform to harness synthetic ABS overlap opportunities
BPL Global is to launch a new reinsurance platform and has hired Gregory King-Underwood as director to spearhead the firm’s growth strategy. This is driven by increased demand for portfolio-based risk weighted asset (RWA) solutions from financial institutions, which the firm hopes can be met by combining reinsurance and synthetic securitisation strategies.
James Esdaile, md at BPL Global, comments that King-Underwood’s .......
News Analysis 27 September 2019
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STS synthetics framework unveiled
EBA publishes landmark consultation
The EBA has published its long-awaited discussion paper on its proposals for an STS framework for synthetic securitisation (SCI 20 September). The discussion paper aims to enhance transparency and further standardise risk transfer trades - although, for the moment, STS synthetic securitisations won’t benefit from preferential capital treatment via a reduction in senior tranche risk weights.
According .......
News Analysis 25 September 2019
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Legacy SRT call possibility
Regulatory triggers could lead to SRTs being called next year
Banks could potentially call legacy capital relief trades (CRTs) next year, as higher senior risk weights for these deals kick, following the end of a one-year grandfathering period. Higher senior risk weights could render the deals less efficient and justify calling and restructuring a transaction, but whether calls are exercised or not will depend on what counts as a .......
News Analysis 20 September 2019
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Case for STS synthetics outlined
Benefits of STS on synthetics clear, but objections could be raised
The EBA is set to release its discussion paper on the application of the STS label to synthetic securitisation next week, with a view to publishing a proposal by the middle of next year. While the paper is a “step in the right direction”, the market will not see any synthetic securitisations with the STS label for “quite some .......
News Analysis 20 September 2019
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Risk transfer round-up - 20 September
CRT sector developments and deal news
Standard Chartered is rumoured to be prepping a corporate capital relief trade for 4Q19. The bank’s last risk transfer trades were completed last summer and referenced corporate loans. The first one was dubbed Chakra 3 and was inked in June, while the second one was called Gongga and was completed in July (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
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Risk transfer round-up - 12 September
CRT sector developments and deal news
Intesa Sanpaolo is rumoured to be prepping for 4Q19 two capital relief trades that reference respectively corporate and SME loans. The bank printed its last corporate and SME SRTs last year from the GARC programme (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
The alleged transactions are riding a wave of Italian SRT issuance this year, fuelled by rising standardised bank ......
News 12 September 2019Premium Content
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Risk profile
Basel 4 impact to vary based on business model
The EBA last month published its advice on the implementation of Basel 4 in the EU, with its impact assessment suggesting that the full implementation of the new framework under conservative assumptions will increase the minimum capital requirement (MRC) by 24.4% on average. Although the resulting capital impact is highly dependent on the strategy of each bank, it is .......
News Analysis 12 September 2019