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London-based SCIO Capital has announced that structured credit veteran Oliver Wriedt has joined the company as a strategic advisor.

Non-banks lenders may seek corporate ratings in order to receive support from the UK government after finding it difficult to access financial aid during the Covid crisis, said RMBS players speaking during Global ABS 2020.

South America’s largest corn-based ethanol producer, FS Agrisolutions Indústria de Biocombustíveis (FS), will look to become the latest Latin American borrower to sell a sustainability-themed bond as it proposes a green format for its international market debut.

InSite Wireless Group has priced a $164m securitization, with its senior bonds achieving the lowest yield for a cell tower securitization this year. Sources have bemoaned rapidly tightening spreads across all sectors, ranging from cell tower to prime auto ABS, posing a challenge for investors looking for yield in securitization.

The worst of the pandemic may be behind the CLO market, both in the US and Europe, and optimism is growing as the sector moves towards the fourth quarter. However, speaking in a market update during Global ABS on Tuesday, panellists said some important changes to the market that emerged in the last few months may be here to stay.

Surging covered bond issuance that is printed only for repo at the central bank and official sector purchases means that the asset class is now less relevant for market funding purposes than ever before. If this continues, the systemic importance of the €2.7tr global market will be undermined just as efforts to develop it look to bear fruit.

In just a few days, two of the UK’s largest companies have had acquisition offers made for them by North American rivals. Heading into the 11th hour of a still chaotic Brexit process amid the highest national redundancy levels since the global financial crisis will have more foreign buyers circling yet.

GlobalCapital and Afme convened a virtual roundtable to tackle the biggest issues facing securitization as the pandemic crisis continues. While other capital markets and the wider economy are reeling from the economic fallout stemming from Covid-19, European securitization is undergoing a regulatory rejuvenation, as the European Commission turns towards structured products as a solution to the coming wave of NPLs. Meanwhile, the market for synthetic ABS is being given a second look to help free bank balance sheets across Europe and spur lending to the real economy. Over the summer, the market saw the report from the senior forum on the Capital Markets Union, which included a number of recommendations on regulatory adjustments to improve the functioning of securitization in Europe. More recently the European Commission put forward a capital markets economic recovery package including measures related to securitization. The Commission has proposed extending the STS framework to synthetic securitizations or on-balance-sheet securitizations. The Commission has also put forward proposals to remove regulatory obstacles to the securitization of NPLs including changes to the regulatory capital treatment.

Sir Ronald Cohen, the venture capitalist who chairs the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, on Tuesday called on governments to mandate companies to publish impact-weighted accounts.

Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, is set to join the nascent sustainability-linked bond market this week after mandating banks for a trade and investors will have another chance to pick up crossover rated debt in a deal from forklift truck maker Kion Group.

Investors think that insurance companies will be able to deal with the cost of business interruption (BI) claims relating to Covid-19, even though the UK High Court found in favour of policyholders in a test case this week.

French agency Cades and the International Development Association returned to the dollar market for the first time since the summer break on Tuesday to bring a pair of five year socially responsible deals.