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Artificial intelligence’s capabilities could speed up some of the work involved in securitization, but its implementation poses risks. Building governance frameworks is key to deploying the technology safely, writes George Smith
Specialist mortgage lenders are optimistic that funding for asset-backed lending will improve in the long run, despite the difficult developing situation around the fall of specialist bridging lender Market Financial Solutions, writes Tom Hall
Investor appetite for CLO ETFs is increasing in Europe, as the asset class matures. But regulation and investor wariness may limit the eventual size of the market, writes Thomas Hopkins, meaning it will be some time before it can reach the scale of that in the US
The possible further internationalisation of the covered bond market will present challenges as well as opportunities
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While other central banks have started to grapple with climate change, the Federal Reserve has been conspicuous by its absence. But as green shoots begin to emerge in the US, the Fed will not be able to ignore the topic for much longer. -
The risk of a Cristina Fernández de Kirchner winning the presidential election in Argentina has spooked investors, causing the currency to sell off and bond prices to slump. But the weakening economy is bolstering support for president Mauricio Macri’s rivals, causing what investors are calling a “toxic feedback loop”.
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Blackstone is suing Urbano Cairo, chairman and controlling shareholder of Italian publisher RCS Mediagroup, citing loss of opportunity for Blackstone and its investors to sell a property acquired from RCS in 2013.
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Marketplace lender Prosper miscalculated and materially overstated its annualised net returns to investors, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which slapped the online lender with a $3m fine last month.
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Amid criticism of the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on asset prices, the Bank of England could buy themed government bonds instead of regular Gilts in the next downturn, according to Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. This would be designed to ensure that QE directly helped the economy.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking a second look into combination notes, a genre of resecuritized CLOs, nearly nine months after Moody’s was fined for allegedly misrepresenting risks contained in the blended debt products. Alex Saeedy reports.
