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  • Securitisation stamp duty eyed

    Sector developments and company hires

    Securitisation stamp duty eyed
    The UK government is introducing legislation within Finance Bill 2021-22 that provides a power to make stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT) changes relating to securitisations and ILS by secondary legislation. The power will be a freestanding provision and will allow HM Treasury to make regulations to provide that stamp duty or SDRT is .......

    Market Moves 29 October 2021

  • New banking rules

    Sector developments and company hires

    The European Commission has adopted new EU banking rules under CRR 3 and CRD 4, with the aim of ensuring that EU banks become more resilient to potential future economic shocks, while contributing to Europe's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the transition to climate neutrality. The Commission notes that while the overall level of capital .......

    Market Moves 28 October 2021

  • Highland Capital lawsuit filed

    Sector developments and company hires

    Highland Capital lawsuit filed
    The latest lawsuit brought by Highland Capital Management (HCMLP) against former employees has been filed in the bankruptcy court of the northern district of Texas. The action seeks to “recover hundreds of millions of dollars in damages that HCMLP suffered at the hands of its founder, James Dondero, acting in concert with other entities that he owned .......

    Market Moves 25 October 2021

  • Gallatin CLO platform acquired

    Sector developments and company hires

    Gallatin CLO platform acquired
    Aquarian Holdings has launched Aquarian Credit Partners (ACP), a syndicated high-yield credit investment management platform. Aquarian has partnered with Justin Driscoll, Bo Williams and the rest of the Gallatin Loan Management team to form ACP, which has assumed management of Gallatin’s existing CLOs, with more than US$800m of assets under management.

    Gallatin has a track .......

    Market Moves 22 October 2021

  • Rare agricultural MBS prints

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    Rare agricultural MBS prints
    The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac) – a federally chartered corporation that provides a secondary market for a variety of loans made to borrowers in rural America, with the aim of increasing the availability and affordability of credit - has completed a US$302.7m securitisation of agricultural mortgage loans. The FARM Series 2021-1 agricultural MBS is backed by .......

    Market Moves 20 October 2021

  • Project Frontier securitisation inked

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    Project Frontier securitisation inked
    National Bank of Greece (NBG) has entered into a definitive agreement with a consortium consisting of affiliates of Bain Capital Credit, Fortress Investment Group and doValue Greece, for the sale of 95% of the mezzanine and junior notes issued via a securitisation backed by a portfolio of non-performing exposures (NPEs) with a total gross book value of .......

    Market Moves 19 October 2021

  • SOFR-linked green ABCP issued

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    SOFR-linked green ABCP issued
    Crédit Agricole CIB has issued the first green ABCP indexed to SOFR to finance electric vehicles and hybrids in auto portfolios, as well as solar loan transactions. Issued by Atlantic Asset Securitization, one of Crédit Agricole CIB's ABCP programmes, the notes were placed with two ESG money market funds.

    The ABCP met green asset ABCP eligibility .......

    Market Moves 18 October 2021

  • Renovation tax credit ABS closed

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    Renovation tax credit ABS closed
    Banca Finint has completed an innovative securitisation backed by tax credits originating from energy efficient renovations of building stock under the Italian Ecobonus and Bonus Casa programmes, in collaboration with Easy Transfer, the platform that deals with transfers of credit deriving from tax deductions. The operation involves as transferors over 1,300 window and door companies .......

    Market Moves 15 October 2021

  • Antares succession revealed

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    Antares succession revealed
    Timothy Lyne, founding partner and current coo of Antares Capital, is set to succeed David Brackett as ceo. Brackett will be retiring from his role as ceo on 31 December 2021 and will remain with Antares in an advisory capacity.

    Lyne brings to the role more than three decades of leadership experience in the financial services, .......

    Market Moves 14 October 2021

  • Affordable housing UMBS planned

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    Affordable housing UMBS planned
    Freddie Mac plans to offer at least US$3bn in single-family affordable housing bonds, including approximately US$285m in Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities backed by loans purchased through its Home Possible programme. The Home Possible mortgage offers a 3% down payment solution, which helps very low- to low-income potential homebuyers overcome the leading barrier to homeownership: affording a down .......

    Market Moves 12 October 2021

  • US insurer CLO exposure 'relatively small'

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    US insurer CLO exposure ‘relatively small’
    The NAIC has released stress testing results on US insurers' exposure to CLOs, as of year-end 2020. The stress tests examined the resilience of CLOs under three different scenarios and mirrors findings from the year-end 2019 stress test, wherein normal CLO single-A rated tranches experienced losses under the worst-case scenario. In comparison, .......

    Market Moves 8 October 2021

  • CSS refocuses on GSE MBS issuance

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    CSS refocuses on GSE MBS issuance
    Common Securitization Solutions (CSS) is undertaking a series of actions to better align its corporate governance structure with its core mission of supporting the infrastructure for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MBS issuance. Matthew Feldman has been named chairman of the board of managers at CSS to assist in this transition on an interim .......

    Market Moves 7 October 2021

  • Regions boosts CRE capability

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    Regions boosts CRE capability
    Regions Bank has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sabal Capital Partners, one of the top originators of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac small-balance commercial real estate loans with a growing presence in non-agency CMBS loan origination. Regions plans to incorporate Sabal into its growing real estate capital markets division.

    Based in Irvine, California, .......

    Market Moves 5 October 2021

  • CIFC, TRS launch leveraged loan partnership

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    CIFC, TRS launch leveraged loan partnership
    Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and CIFC Asset Management have established a new leveraged loan investment fund platform known as Texas Debt Capital (TDC). A CIFC affiliate is the general partner and investment manager of TDC, while TRS is the anchor investor limited partner and has committed significant equity to the fund. The .......

    Market Moves 4 October 2021

  • SFA paper supports agency CRT

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    SFA paper supports agency CRT
    The SFA has published a white paper on the economics of credit risk transfer at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The paper responds to an earlier FHFA report that had questioned the economic benefits of CRT (SCI passim) and illustrates how CRT has been - and can continue to be - an effective credit risk .......

    Market Moves 1 October 2021

  • CLO ETF moves down cap stack

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    CLO ETF moves down cap stack
    Janus Henderson Group has filed a preliminary registration statement with the US SEC for the Janus Henderson B-BBB CLO ETF (JBBB) for US investors. The exchange-traded fund - which is expected to be the first ETF focused on providing exposure to single-B to triple-B rated CLO tranches - will be managed by portfolio managers .......

    Market Moves 30 September 2021

  • Synthetic Libor settings confirmed

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    Synthetic Libor settings confirmed
    The UK FCA has confirmed that to avoid disruption to legacy contracts that reference the one-, three- and six-month sterling and Japanese yen Libor settings, it will require ICE Benchmark Administration to publish these settings under a 'synthetic' methodology, based on term risk-free rates, for the duration of 2022. However, these six Libor settings will be .......

    Market Moves 29 September 2021

  • Fraud charges for Honor Finance pair

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    Fraud charges for Honor Finance pair
    The US SEC has announced fraud charges against James Collins and Robert DiMeo, the former principals of Honor Finance, for misleading investors about the subprime automobile loans that backed its US$100m offering. The SEC's complaint, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that the pair were responsible for false .......

    Market Moves 24 September 2021

  • Call for 'risk-sensitive' prudential approach

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    Call for ‘risk-sensitive’ prudential approach
    The ECB has published its comments in connection with the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the functioning of the EU securitisation framework. In particular, the ECB says that the experience it has gained - as an investor in the ABS market through its asset purchase programmes, a collateral taker in its credit operations and as .......

    Market Moves 23 September 2021

  • US CLOs, Trups CDOs under observation

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    US CLOs, Trups CDOs under observation
    Fitch has placed 102 tranches issued by 43 US CLOs and 13 tranches issued by seven Trups CDOs under criteria observation (UCO), following the publication of its CLO and corporate CDO rating criteria last week (SCI 17 September). The agency intends to resolve the UCO status by applying the updated criteria to each .......

    Market Moves 22 September 2021

  • Pandemic 'feedback loop' highlighted

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    Pandemic ‘feedback loop’ highlighted
    Secular changes affecting the recovery of in-person office occupancy in New York City is consequential not only for property-level cashflow, but may also have ripple effects on other sectors, Fitch suggests. The city is the largest US office market and the rating agency says it provides a good case study of the potential feedback loop of .......

    Market Moves 21 September 2021
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