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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
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
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
The possible further internationalisation of the covered bond market will present challenges as well as opportunities
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In this round-up, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) put pressure on banks to provide more private sector financing, the US trade representative said he was not yet satisfied with China’s trade promises and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) planned to increase cross-border capital market deals. -
A group of nine NGOs, trade unions and other civil society groups have got together to produce an independent white paper setting out in detail how they believe the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan should progress. It calls on the EU to push ahead with the Plan, only some of whose targets have been acted on so far, and to take it further and deeper.
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Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, warned politicians on Thursday not to roll back banking regulations established in the wake of the financial crisis, as she highlighted a spike in financial pay. She also discussed ways of making finance more sustainable in its outcomes, and how fintech could improve inclusivity.
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Irish republican party Sinn Féin has proposed a mortgage bill dubbed ‘no consent, no sale’, which would seek a borrower’s agreement before selling mortgage loans to another owner, either abroad or domestic, in a move which could end the securitization market in Ireland.
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UK IPO sellers should consider an entirely different listing process, to cope with more volatile markets and ensure a flotation has a higher chance of success, argues Richard Brown, corporate finance partner at US law firm Baker Botts in London.
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Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has launched the first catastrophe bond out of Singapore, as the Lion City seeks to become a hub for insurance-linked securities (ILS) by offering grants to issuers.
