Latest news
Latest news
Sponsors also inject $35m of equity
Pepper Advantage will service £50bn of UK mortgages at completion
George Smith talks to Tom Hall about an exciting deal in the pipeline, good conditions for SME financing and more supply from Santander
More articles
More articles
-
Trinity Industries has priced its first railcar ABS transaction designated as a green bond, from a recently established green ABS framework. As one of the very few labelled US ABS deals outside of solar or PACE, the Trinity transaction enjoyed high demand from traditional and non-ABS investors. -
Peter Zirwes, the highly regarded head of corporate finance at Daimler, Europe’s second biggest corporate bond issuer, will retire at the end of August. This follows an eventful career that has spanned bouts of transformative M&A.
-
Richard Cordray has been selected to head the federal student aid office, assuming responsibility over the entire portfolio of federal student loans in the US. With his appointment, the $10,000 student debt forgiveness policy will likely come to fruition, unexpectedly benefiting the sector.
-
Upstart is returning with a $490m securitization backed by unsecured personal loans, its biggest deal to date. The ABS transaction announcement comes as the company has been increasing its capital base and lending capacity through various means, such as completing an IPO as well as partnering up with banks or start-ups.
-
Structured transactions that transfer risk from banks’ balance sheets are set to grow in emerging markets as their financial systems become more sophisticated and lenders try to deal with losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Multilateral development banks are playing a central role — they aim to stimulate private sector interest, even if sometimes investors resent their involvement. Jon Hay reports.
-
Investors are seeing more personal loan ABS residuals trading as the asset class expands and liquidity improves. After seeing how the loans performed through the pandemic, more market participants feel comfortable going down the capital stack in marketplace loans.
-
Crédit Agricole has struck a new synthetic risk transfer deal with the International Finance Corporation, in which it will shed about 90% of the risk on $4bn of emerging market trade finance loans. The IFC expects to use securitization more to help banks in developing countries cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
-
Small business ABS lender OnDeck has returned to the market for the first time after it was acquired by consumer credit lender Enova. OnDeck’s new transaction is structurally more conservative than past deals and does not include a concentration limit on lines of credit loans, which historically perform better than the term loan product.
-
The auto ABS pipeline remains robust with Consumer Portfolio Services pricing a subprime auto securitization, immediately following back to back pricing of three other auto issuers mid last week. Despite the heavy supply, investors are eager to digest more auto paper, both prime and subprime, market participants said.
