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Revival of high LTV mortgage lending is creating an opportunity for more SRT and deconsolidation transactions
Trade follows the end of a joint venture to originate loans
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The Federal Reserve kicked off its two-day policy meeting on Tuesday, with the officials deeply divided on when to make the move to tapering asset purchases. With no dot plot projections expected this time, sources are keeping a close eye on what Fed chairman Jerome Powell says, looking for hints about the central bank’s plans. -
A UK football club securitization has closed that offers investors exposure to future ticket sales. But sports securitizations, almost non-existent after the 2008 global financial crisis, have assumed a new, higher level risk in the eyes of many following the pandemic.
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Castlelake beat its own record with a refinancing of its 2017-1R transaction, achieving the lowest coupon out of all of its deals since it debuted in the ABS market in 2014. The pricing highlighted the insatiable demand for aviation bonds, even as some voiced concerns over valuations in the esoteric ABS market overall.
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Buy now, pay later company Affirm has appointed Geoff Kott as chief revenue officer, a newly created role. The move comes as Affirm prepares an ABS for the third time this year, establishing its foothold not only as a major player in point of sale and marketplace loan issuer securitization.
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Container ABS are becoming a bigger presence in the securitization market, thanks to a boost in demand for cargo shipping. Investors are leaping at deals from a sector that offers higher returns than other fixed income assets, including other types of esoteric ABS.
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World Bank has raised $185m in a catastrophe bond to provide financial protection to Jamaica from the economic damage of tropical storms for the next three years. It is among the first cat bonds to be linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
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Trafigura has launched its sixth securitization from its TFS programme, the largest trade receivables securitization programme in the world, marking a return to the market for the oil trader which pioneered inventory ABS.
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Market participants are getting to grips with the EU’s plans for its Green Bond Standard, released last week. They are finding quirks in it that could help some issuers, discovers Jon Hay, but may make the regulation much more complicated.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is casting a wider net in terms of what it considers consumer fraud to keep in line with US president Joe Biden's pro-consumer agenda. Such aggressive consumer protection measures, if they were to increase in magnitude, might create unpredictability for secondary markets and investors, sources said.
