Caja de Ahorros de Valencia, Castellón y Alicante (Bancaja) and BankInter are both looking to price residential mortgage-backed securities before the end of the year. BankInter is structuring and lead-managing its own E710 million deal, which according a banker familiar with BankInter's plans, will be kept on-balance sheet for funding use through the repo market.
Bancaja just completed its first public RMBS deal in late October through Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. That E1 billion deal's triple-A rated notes were priced at 25 basis points over three-month EURIBOR. It is unclear what the size of the new issue will be. As of press time last Wednesday, the Bancaja deal had not been mandated.