ABS beckons banks as senior unsecured slumps

Banks struggling for senior unsecured funding should be turning to ABS, investors argued this week. "ABS has never been so far inside senior," said a London-based fund manager. "I’m surprised that banks aren’t printing furiously in short end ABS, trying to grab funding while they can. ABS people have been through a crisis before. They’re not just going to sell out at the first hint of trouble."