Barclays takes risk retention for Pimco’s Slate refi

Barclays is holding the risk retention for Pimco’s refinancing of the Slate portfolio — a book of Northern Rock mortgages from the bad bank UK Asset Resolution (UKAR). The US investor is buying the rest of the deal’s capital structure, repeating the approach it took with the £4.9bn ($6.29bn) Project Chester portfolio in April.