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RBS has sold a risk transfer securitization referencing a book of UK green project finance loans to the BAE Systems pension fund, which was advised by a unit of Macquarie. The deal is the first ESG-rated risk transfer deal in the UK, and also potentially the longest-dated risk transfer deal ever done in the UK, with an average life of eight to nine years.
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The Loan Market Association is set to restart its Schuldschein working group in February, with a workstream addressing credit restructuring. This is an early sign that the market’s heavyweights are taking this issue — which has damaged the Schuldschein’s reputation in some quarters — seriously.
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Hopes that insurance investors could flood back into the market for mezz tranches have been dashed, after Europe’s insurance regulator closed its feedback session on revamping Solvency II without mention of any changes to the securitization capital treatment.
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Corporate debt advisers have joined the call for lenders to make clear their plans for the transition away from Libor, as frustration takes hold among some bank clients that a solution still seems far away.
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More than three quarters of European banks have poor standards of internal governance, according to the European Central Bank, which warned on Tuesday that management bodies were simply 'not effective'.
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LBBW has revealed that most investors in its latest green bond were signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. The novel disclosure offers a ‘more reliable’ way of describing green participation in new bond issues, according to the bank.