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Asset managers muscle into financial sponsors’ territory

Where securitization was once a prime hunting ground for financial sponsors and hedge funds, some of the largest asset management houses are now setting up units to beat the top predators of the capital markets at their own game, taking the other side of the securitization arbitrage

Owen Sanderson, December 13, 2019
Bank Strategy

As US banks’ shadow lengthens, Europeans plan their fight back

Each year brings another retreat for European investment banks, as their seemingly invincible US competitors edge further into the European market. While the Europeans are far from capitulating, the pressure is relentless. As Jasper Cox reports, they are trying to redefine success by concentrating on the markets and segments where they are strongest

Jasper Cox, December 13, 2019
RMBS

RMBS revs up as reforms loom

While the outlook for a long-awaited reform of mortgage finance and the government-sponsored enterprises is uncertain in an election year, non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) are clawing their way back into US capital markets

Max Adams, December 13, 2019
STS: the long and winding road

Meant to bring about a new era for European securitization a decade after the financial crisis, the ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ framework actually stifled issuance in the first quarter of 2019. But a year on, STS is on its way to delivering what it had promised. Tom Brown reports

Tom Brown, December 13, 2019
ABS

Esoteric ABS boom fuelled by move beyond fast food

Esoteric ABS is not quite so esoteric in the era of low interest rates. With anaemic yields and low economic growth expected to continue, more investors have turned to the asset class over the past few years, and issuers are locking in the lower cost of capital while it lasts

Jennifer Kang, December 13, 2019
ABS

Investors seek ABS protection against turning macro cycle

As the late stages of the economic cycle drag on and uncertainty around the next recession grows, investors are turning to securitization as a shield against headwinds from other parts of the market, loading up on ABS to insulate portfolios from gyrations in corporate credit

Jennifer Kang, December 13, 2019
Polls and Awards

The 17th Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards nominations

In November, GlobalCapital polled loan market participants for its 17th Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards. The nominations are listed below, in alphabetical order. We will reveal the winners at the Awards Dinner, to be held on February 12, 2020, in London. For details on attending the event, please contact Daniel Elton at delton@euromoneyplc.com or by calling +44 20 7779 7305

EuroWeek Editor 1, December 13, 2019
EM LatAm

Argentina minfin brings moderate rhetoric but restructuring reality looking tough

A friendly face in the finance ministry was apparently enough to lift Argentine sovereign bonds ahead of a looming restructuring, but analysts warned that the government was still showing no willingness to implement the austerity measures that would make debt sustainable.

Oliver West, December 12, 2019
Derivatives

Open access advocates fear German threat

As European Union regulators start to review the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, some market participants are nervous that Germany will use the opportunity to stamp out their own ambitions for open access to clearing houses.

Ross Lancaster, December 12, 2019
EM LatAm

Cydsa tap follows Bancolombia as rarer borrowers take December spotlight

Another Latin American borrower was set to price dollar deals this week as GlobalCapital went to press, as smaller issuers took a rare opportunity to hold the full attention of investors.

Oliver West, December 12, 2019
EM LatAm

Avianca gets permission for restructuring take-off

Bonds issued by Avianca traded up this week after the Colombian airline completed the final stage of a complex restructuring, effectively giving it permission to push out a looming bond maturity by three years.

Oliver West, December 12, 2019
Leader

Serious about green? Lagarde must ditch dirty debt

Christine Lagarde, the new European Central Bank president, has planted a flag, placing climate change at the centre of the ECB’s priorities. That is bold — and laudable — but if the ECB is to have a meaningful impact, green QE is not enough. The ECB must divest its holdings of unsustainable assets.

Lewis McLellan, December 12, 2019

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