RMBS

  • Tweaking tradition

    Dutch securitisation evolving across established sectors

    The Dutch securitisation market is seeing innovation and growth away from its traditional strong focus on prime RMBS. This trend is evolutionary rather than revolutionary, as participants seek to build on the sector’s well-established foundations.

    Some asset classes are simply returning to life, notably CMBS. “CMBS has been picking up since last year and the two big issuers, .......

    News Analysis 13 August 2019

  • STS mirage

    "Still no level playing field" despite regulation

    Despite the high bar that issuers must clear to achieve the STS designation on securitisations, the deals continue to have unfair levels of capital treatment compared with other investment products, even backed by the same underlying collateral.  A lack of incentive to invest in securitisation - even STS deals – therefore continues to remain, but the task of addressing this .......

    News Analysis 12 August 2019

  • AM acquisition

    Sector developments and company hires

    Asset management acquisition

    Assured Guaranty US Holdings is set to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in BlueMountain Capital Management and its associated entities for approximately US$160m, subject to certain adjustments, as part of a strategic objective to diversify into fee-based revenue sources. The acquisition is expected to complete in 4Q19, subject to customary closing conditions. As .......

    Market Moves 9 August 2019

  • Alt credit co-head hired

    Company hires and sector developments

    Alt credit co-head nabbed

    Ares has hired Joel Holsinger to its credit group as co-head of alternative credit, effective immediately. Holsinger will serve on the Ares management committee and work alongside Keith Ashton as co-head of alternative credit to expand the firm's global coverage of the US$4trn alternative credit sector. Ares' alternative credit strategy pursues asset-focused direct investments primarily in North America and Europe across .......

    Market Moves 7 August 2019

  • CLO partner appointed

    Sector developments and company hires

    CLO firm partner promotion

    DFG Investment Advisers has promoted Timothy Milton to partner. Since joining the firm in 2014, Milton has been responsible for the management of the Vibrant Capital CLO platform in his capacity as co-portfolio manager. In addition, Eduardo Cabral has joined DFG’s credit research team as an md, having been a portfolio manager and senior .......

    Market Moves 6 August 2019

  • CLO head hired

    Sector developments and company hires

    BUMF 6 injunctions granted

    Final injunctions have been granted against Greencoat Investments (GIL) (including against its directors, which include Clifden IOM No.1, Rizwan Hussain, Rajnish Kalia and Alfred Oyekoya), Greencoat Holdings (GHL), Portfolio Logistics (PLL), Patrick Anthony FitzSimons, Maria Stoica and Oyekoya in connection with Business Mortgage Finance 6 (SCI 17 July). A court order has also .......

    Market Moves 2 August 2019

  • Landmark SRTs inked

    BP Bari completes capital relief trades

    Banca Popolare di Bari has completed two capital relief trades that reference respectively a €1.1bn Italian SME portfolio and a €1.8bn Italian residential mortgage portfolio. This is the first time that transactions have been carried out between an Italian standardised bank and a private investor.

    The risk transfer trades were arranged by Banca IMI and they are funded .......

    News 2 August 2019

  • Crunching the numbers

    'Anomalous' acquisition of mortgages 'made economic sense'

    Arbuthnot Banking Group recently acquired two mortgage portfolios from the Raphael Mortgages and Magellan Funding 2 RMBS transactions, totalling approximately £266m. As well as being one of the first such transactions for the bank, the acquisition is also unusual in that such portfolios are typically snapped up by private equity firms and hedge funds, with challenger banks like Arbuthnot .......

    News 1 August 2019

  • Under pressure?

    UK non-prime RMBS could be tested in the autumn

    Attention in the UK RMBS market is turning to what might happen in September as the summer lull begins in earnest, with the new issue pipeline empty and only patchy secondary trading. In particular, focus is on non-prime sectors and the pressures they may come under.

    The last few days of July saw some secondary activity both on .......

    News 1 August 2019

  • Affordable loan credit insurance risk transfer closed

    Sector developments and company hires

    Affordable CIRT closed

    Fannie Mae has executed a new credit insurance risk transfer (CIRT) transaction that, for the first time, covers a pool of primarily single-family affordable loans. These covered loans are delivered to Fannie Mae with a short-term lender repurchase obligation, provided primarily by state housing finance agencies, which serves as the initial loan credit enhancement. Dubbed CIRT LR .......

    Market Moves 31 July 2019

  • Portuguese boost

    RMBS tightens on call optionality

    Portuguese RMBS outperformed other securitisation asset classes last week, boosted by the surprise call of the Lusitano Mortgages No. 2 transaction (SCI 22 July). The sector is expected to continue to perform strongly at tight levels.  

    JPMorgan international securitisation analysts note that Portuguese RMBS was the clear outperformer last week, with ECB-eligible senior notes tightening by .......

    News 31 July 2019

  • QM revisited

    Private mortgage market to fill the void?

    The CFPB’s ANPR in relation to the GSEs’ temporary qualified mortgage provision (SCI 29 July) anticipates that the FHA and the private mortgage market may fill the void once the classification expires. However, it remains unclear whether the private mortgage market will step up in this way.   

    The aim of the ANPR is to help move .......

    News Analysis 31 July 2019

  • Winding up order issued for Clifden

    Company hires and sector developments

    Clifden wind up

    A winding-up order has been issued by the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man, Chancery Division in respect of Clifden IOM No.1 and PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed official receiver of the firm. The move follows a Part 8 claim issued by Clifden, naming RMAC No. 1 series 2006-NS1, 2006-NS2, 2006-NS3, 2006-NS4 and 2007-NS1 .......

    Market Moves 29 July 2019

  • Mortgage firm completes residuals sale

    Company hires and sector developments

    Residual sale

    Charter Mortgages is set to sell its residual economic interest in the Precise Mortgage Funding 2019-1B RMBS to JPMorgan - which managed the sale process and purchased the RC2 certificates for onward sale - for a cash consideration of £6.2m. The transaction is expected to complete on 31July and will generate a pre-tax gain of £28.8m and a .......

    Market Moves 26 July 2019

  • Benchmark SRT inked

    Bank of Scotland completes unusual synthetic UK RMBS

    Bank of Scotland has launched its first post-crisis synthetic UK RMBS. Dubbed Syon Securities 2019, the £150m CLN references a £1bn portfolio of UK residential mortgages.

    Synthetic securitisations of UK mortgages are highly unusual, with only two post-crisis transactions having been completed thus far (see SCI’s capital relief trades database). However, Syon Securities is expected to act .......

    News Analysis 25 July 2019

  • Italian renaissance?

    Spike in new issuance supported for now

    The uptick in Italian ABS/MBS primary issuance in the past month or so gives the impression of a long-awaited re-start to the market. However, while there are a range of factors supporting the trend, old concerns remain.   

    Despite the flurry of deals recently, the total volume of Italian securitisations this year to date is actually slightly down .......

    News Analysis 24 July 2019

  • Esoteric ABS head announced

    Sector developments and company hires

    Esoteric ABS head named

    MUFG has hired Keith Allman as md and head of esoteric ABS, effective August 14 and he will be responsible for the coverage of all US esoteric ABS assets. Allman brings 17 years of structured-finance and aviation experience as a banker at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, and most recently as an investor at Loomis Sayles & .......

    Market Moves 23 July 2019

  • ABS head named

    Company hires and sector developments

    Euro ABS head appointed

    Santander has hired Francesco Dissera as head of continential Europe, securitisation, based out of Milan. He was previously md and partner, head of structuring and advisory at StormHarbour.

    PM appoitment duoble

    Man GLG has hired Patrick Kenney and Santiago Pardo as portfolio managers to its credit business in London. Prior to this, Pardo worked in credit .......

    Market Moves 22 July 2019

  • Offshore investment in Chinese ABS soars

    Investors find relative value in second largest ABS market

    Foreign investment in the Chinese ABS market is increasing exponentially, as routes to entry have been eased by developments such as the Bond Connect platform and the presence of ratings from international agencies. With issuance volumes in 2018 of around US$300bn, China is now the second largest global ABS market after the US and is seeing a broadening range of deals  which .......

    News Analysis 22 July 2019

  • Co-ceo named

    Sector developments and company hires

    Co-ceo named

    Värde Partners has named Ilfryn Carstairs as co-ceo, alongside co-founder George Hicks, effective from 1 January 2020. Hicks intends to transition to an executive chair role in 2022. Carstairs will retain his role as partner and global cio, overseeing the firm’s global investment strategy and co-chairing its investment committee. Based in Singapore since 2017, he joined Värde Partners .......

    Market Moves 19 July 2019

  • Fast track

    ING RMBS turbo kicks in

    Moody's has upgraded three tranches from ING’s Orange Lion 2013-10 RMBS, reflecting increased credit enhancement and better-than-expected collateral performance. The preplaced transaction caused a stir at issuance, due to its lack of call option or step-up coupon (SCI 4 July 2013).

    The transaction’s €42.6m class C notes have been upgraded from Aaa to Aa1, while the €40.1m class .......

    News 19 July 2019
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