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January's ABS data center deals see tenant numbers drop but demand remains strong
Deals including some commercial mortgages expected to follow
Deal was priced 6bp tighter than most recent iteration of the asset class
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Nordea has agreed a €5.1bn risk transfer securitization of corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise loans, to close in January. It is Nordea's second synthetic risk transfer deal and the first since it redomiciled into Europe’s Banking Union, which has given it a lead regulator more supportive of synthetic securitization than the Swedish regulator. -
NatWest Markets has become the latest dealer to join Spire, the repack notes platform.
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Pagaya, an investment management firm with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning-led underwriting, closed a $200m consumer ABS this month, bringing the firm’s total issuance count to five deals in 2019.
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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
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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
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Fitch Ratings this week issued an unsolicited commentary on the whole business securitization market, a sector that has grown rapidly and which the agency sees as luring investors with “overstated benefits” despite investment grade ratings.
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A third instalment of the UK Department for Education’s current programme of student loan securitizations has stalled, a casualty of a tight general election and volatile politics. Concerns about whether securitization gives government good value for money are a potential obstacle, while investors will have to weigh up an instrument highly geared to the fate of the UK economy. Owen Sanderson and Tom Brown report.
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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has published new requirements for marketplace lending platforms which Moody’s said will strengthen the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending environment.
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Eurozone banks have ramped up repayments for the second series of Targeted Longer Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO II) this month, but engagement with the latest iteration of the European Central Bank’s cheap funding programme was weaker than expected.
