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UK credit card provider Jaja hires Belen Bulnes as it plans on entering the public ABS market
Thomas Picton joins as firm works to build strength in CLOs
Regulator plans to implement formulaic p-factor proposed in October 2024
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Nicholas Sossidis and Stephen Partridge-Hicks, the founders of investment manager Gordian Knot and pioneers of structured investment vehicles, are planning the firm’s comeback in the securitization market, with a new venture focused on corporate receivables ready to launch. -
Royal Bank of Scotland's structured finance head Andrew Blincoe has become head of large corporates and institutions at RBS Commercial Banking, as well as keeping his existing responsibilities as structured finance head, following the departure of Laura Barlow.
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Thompson & Knight has hired three litigation attorneys, Keith Brandofino, Maximiliano Rinaldi and David Mignardi, to bolster the commercial real estate and loan servicing business in the firm’s New York office. All three attorneys join from Kilpatrick Townsend.
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Zam Khan is a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Institutions Group, where he leads the portfolio and capital advisory practice. He told GlobalCapital how banks should use financial data to deal with new NPL formations, or risk being engulfed by losses over the next few months.
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Oliver Wriedt has stepped down from his role as CEO of DFG Investment Advisers to start his own investment firm, according to CLO market sources.
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SMBC Nikko Capital Markets has hired Manish Peshawaria as head of ABS trading, with a mandate to build out the secondary business, as part of its expansion into the European securitization market.
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If UK pension savers knew how their money was invested, funds would be more inclined to invest exclusively in environmental, social and governance (ESG) assets. So argues Richard Curtis, the screenwriter, director and co-founder of Comic Relief. He has launched a public campaign, Make My Money Matter, to pressure UK pension funds to invest more sustainably.
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Environmental, social and governance investors have been patting themselves on the back this year because their funds have tended to outperform during the coronavirus crisis. But a San Francisco hedge fund believes they are doing a poor job of shielding investors from the general risk of the stockmarket and more quantitative methods would improve the outcome.
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It can hardly be said that the process of releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government conservatorship has been rushed. The painstaking process has taken place over the course more than a decade and has consumed the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) through two presidential administrations. And yet, FHFA capital requirements proposals published this week for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) may not go far enough to ensure their safety and soundness.
