Provider Profile
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Financing football
James Paul, head of sport at Blackstar Capital, discusses ho...
Q: Which sports are you seeing structured financing in?
A: In Europe, football is the most mature sport commercially and hence attracts most of the opportunities for structured debt financing. That isn’t to say that there aren’t things done in other sports, particularly on the equity side, but it’s certainly much more opportunistic.The impact of the pandemic has .......
Provider Profile 14 June 2021
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Problem solving
Paul Wilden, global head of capital markets at Apex Group, answers SCI's questions
Q: How is Apex Group involved in the securitisation market?
A: We provide a combination of SPV administration, trustee and agency services to a broad cross-section of asset classes. Our capital markets business is broadly sector agnostic.Q: What are the firm’s key areas of focus today?
Provider Profile 10 August 2020
A: Given the proliferation of private debt funds, one area where we add .......
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Leading the way
A look at the European DataWarehouse's role in the NPL securitisation space
The all too real impacts of the pandemic-driven crisis are already finding their way in to European DataWarehouse's (ED) loan-level data. While it does not relish that particular leading role, the repository intends to remain at the forefront of the development of the NPL securitisation market throughout the crisis and far beyond.
"We're already starting to see very early impacts .......
Provider Profile 19 May 2020
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Bespoke service
Emma-Jane Fulcher, founder of Grovewood Capital Consultancy, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Grovewood Capital Consultancy become involved in the securitisation market?
Provider Profile 23 January 2020
A: I founded Grovewood Capital Consultancy at the end of last year (SCI 23 December 2019). In my previous role as head of structured finance at ARC Ratings, more and more clients were asking for structuring advice during the ratings process – which, of course, .......
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CDS index-linked ETF launched
Fund will target gap in passive fixed income space
Tabula has launched a new fixed income ETF tracking the iTraxx European Crossover five year index. The fund follows hot on the heels of similar offerings from the firm, as it seeks to maximise on escalating inflows into CDS indices as well as the dearth of such products aimed at passive fixed income investors.
Michael John Lytle, ceo of Tabula, .......
Provider Profile 21 January 2019
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New frontiers
SF group uses innovative methods to provide private debt financing
REYL Group recently established a new structured finance department as part of the Corporate Advisory and Structuring (CAS) group. It has a heavy focus on private debt - mainly on a secured and securitised basis - to facilitate funding across a range of asset classes and jurisdictions, including initial transactions in commodities and project finance.
Ante Razmilovic, who joined .......
Provider Profile 18 December 2018
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Lender looks to bolster defences
Private transactions may 'resemble securitisations'
With a change in the credit cycle anticipated, some UK real estate lenders are adopting a more cautious strategy. One such firm is Octopus Property, which also recently created a head of structuring role (SCI 22 June) to help broaden its investor base, while employing securitisation-like funding methods.
Mario Berti, ceo of Octopus Property, comments that the firm has .......
Provider Profile 12 July 2018
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Start-up launches to solve structured product problems
Banks remain too big to fail and there is still opacity surrounding securitisation and structured products. This is the view of banking and derivatives veterans Philippe Naegeli and Patrick Loepfe, who have launched a new platform - dubbed GenTwo - aimed at addressing these challenges.
Loepfe, founder and chairman at GenTwo, was previously chief risk officer at DIVAS Asset Management .......
Provider Profile 7 June 2018
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Euro mortgage market heating up
A thriving European mortgage market is attracting foreign investors seeking to capitalise on the low-risk returns on offer, particularly in the UK and the Netherlands. New firms such as Fortrum (SCI 18 May) are being established, offering innovative products and services to help smooth the path for those venturing into the European structured finance sector.
Simon Collingridge, co-founder of Fortrum, .......
Provider Profile 1 June 2018
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Investment differentiation
SCI's profile questions are answered by Triphonas Kyriakis, md for analytics at MSCI; Raghu Suryanarayanan, executive director of MSCI's risk research group; and Thomas Ta, who directs the company's development of risk management analytics.
Q: How and when did MSCI's analytics business become involved in the securitisation market?
Provider Profile 24 February 2017
TT: MSCI has been helping investors analyse securitised products for over a decade, .......
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Evolving analytics
Valuation and risk landscape discussed
FINCAD has recently incorporated MBS into its F3 pricing, valuation and risk analytics solution. SCI asked James Church, vp, product management and R&D at FINCAD, about the challenges of bringing MBS into a common valuation and risk solution, as well as his views on the current valuation and analytics landscape.
Q: How and when did FINCAD become involved in the .......
Provider Profile 6 December 2016
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Liquidity focus
Frank Dos Santos, head of North America business strategy fo...
Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the pricing and valuations business? How has the service evolved in recent years?
A: Markit was founded in 2002 as a pricing service for CDS. From there, the service expanded to include bank loans.Since 2009 Markit has continued to expand its coverage of fixed income asset classes, now offering evaluated .......
Provider Profile 29 September 2016
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Transparency drive
Robert Vincini, head of pricing service specialists at Thomson Reuters, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the pricing and valuations business? How has your service evolved in recent years?
Provider Profile 23 May 2016
A: We started in 1991 as EJV Partners (Electronic Joint Venture). Reuters purchased certain assets of Bridge - including bond pricing and reference data - in 2001, forming Reuters Pricing Service. After the merger of Thomson Corporation and Reuters .......
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Energy boost
Renovate America capital markets md Craig Braun and capital...
Q: How and when did Renovate America become involved in the securitisation market?
Braun: We started originating PACE loans in 2012 and we securitised our first HERO bonds in 2014. PACE provides a financing alternative for homeowners when they need to replace aging heating or air conditioning units or make other energy efficiency or renewable energy upgrades.PACE allows homeowners to .......
Provider Profile 9 March 2016
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Solar effect
BBOXX ceo and co-founder Mansoor Hamayun answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 26 February 2016
Q: How and when did BBOXX become involved in the securitisation market?
A: You need to look at the core of our business first, which is around designing, distributing and financing solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and other parts of the developing world. Since 2010, we've sold 55,000 solar kits and impacted .......
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Alpha alternative
Indus Valley Partners co-founder Bijesh Amin answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Indus Valley Partners become involved in the securitisation market?
A: I co-founded Indus Valley Partners in 2000 to provide a specialist solutions firm focused exclusively on the alternative asset management industry. We are now the largest firm specialising in this field.We currently have 380 professionals, working across four time-zones, covering the US, India and Europe, .......
Provider Profile 3 August 2015
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Embedding liquidity
eBond Advisors co-founder and managing partner Richard MacWi...
Q: How and when did eBond Advisors become involved in the derivatives markets?
Provider Profile 28 April 2015
RM: Mac McQuown and I founded eBond Advisors in 2010, with the goal to explore improvements in the structure of corporate bonds so they could be purchased by more investors. This effort was a direct outgrowth of the credit crisis where corporate bonds were unnecessarily affected by market .......
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New broom
Mount Street managing partner and ceo Ravi Joseph and director Jonathan Banks answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Mount Street become involved in the securitisation market?
RJ: Mount Street is an amalgam of a couple of different businesses. We began taking on servicing assignments about two years ago and this business has grown quickly around the emergence of non-bank lenders, most of whom choose to outsource their servicing requirements.We then acquired the Frankfurt .......
Provider Profile 24 November 2014
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European alternative
Stefan Bund, group md and head of asset-based finance at Scope Ratings, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Scope Ratings become involved in the securitisation market?
A: Scope Ratings was established in 2002 as a funds analysis house, specialising in the commercial real estate, SME and infrastructure sectors. The company expanded into the credit rating business in 2012 by merging with a smaller German rating agency.Scope's move was .......
Provider Profile 29 July 2014
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Intermediary initiative
Nassar Hussain, managing partner at Brookland Partners, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 12 September 2013
Q: How and when did Brookland Partners become involved in the CMBS market?
A: Brookland Partners has been lead financial adviser on over 25 CMBS transactions totalling in excess of €22bn since our launch in 2009. We act as financial adviser to government agencies, financial institutions, private equity firms, property companies and the vast majority of .......
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Linking-in credit
Mike Manning, DealVector co-founder and ceo, and Dave Jeffer...
Q: How and when did DealVector become involved in the structured finance markets?
MM: The system has been live for two months or so, although of course we have been developing for longer than that. We really are filling a gap in the market and providing a service that investors tell us they have been crying out for.DealVector is 'LinkedIn' .......
Provider Profile 6 June 2013