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ABS market not the cheapest cost of financing for issuer of first ever trade in the asset class
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 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. -
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.
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M&G has mandated Deutsche Bank as sole arranger for a peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction backed by loans originated from Zopa, a UK fintech which received a funding injection of £140m the same day its provisional banking license was set to expire.
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Ed Panek, former head of ABS investment at Janus Henderson Investors, has retired after 12 years with the firm.
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Specialist trade financing company Stenn has doubled the size of its securitization facility, Stenn Assets Funding, adding non-credit insured mezzanine tranches financed by M&G and boosting the size of the senior tranches in the shelf.
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The resumption of European Central Bank purchases in the ABS market has helped some of the largest banks in Europe to issue dual purpose securitizations, locking in cheap funding from the senior tranche and selling down the structure to achieve risk transfer. ABS buying is now forming a greater part of the central bank’s asset purchases than during previous easing rounds.
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Market participants should seek value in size, seeking protection from election volatility in larger issuers, bigger deals and thicker tranche sizes, says Wells Fargo in its 2020 securitization outlook.
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Atom Bank is bringing its second mortgage bond deal as European securitization issuers rush to market in the scramble to year end.
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European auto ABS issuers have been pushing up coupons and selling deals well over par as Euribor plunged, hoping their new deals can avoid the fate of older deals which are now trading effectively as fixed rate issues.
