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June may be shaping up to be a scorcher in US structured finance, with a raft of CMBS deals likely to follow a big industry conference next week and consumer and esoteric activity also heating up. -
Deutsche Bank’s head of corporate finance EMEA, Alasdair Warren, has become the highest profile casualty of new CEO Christian Sewing’s cost-cutting drive, after failing to re-establish Deutsche at the summit of the European corporate finance rankings.
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A bumper month of US consumer ABS issuance in May has helped push year-to-date volumes ahead of last year's figures, although this could be driven by issuers front loading ahead of expected rate rises later in the year, said analysts.
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The marketplace lending sector in Europe is growing, with a sharp focus on the small to medium sized enterprise segment, but it is still lagging UK and the US markets and lenders will need to ramp up scale and educate investors before a meaningful pipeline of securitization can build.
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Scor said that being able to launch a catastrophe bond from the UK provided it with a useful alternative for issuance, after it sold the first catastrophe bond from the country with an unusual dual layer structure last week.
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An announcement on Friday by the European Commission (EC) states that ‘new rules’ have been adopted to stimulate insurance company demand for 'simple, transparent and standardised' (STS) securitizations.
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Scor finalised the sale of the first catastrophe bond to be issued from the UK this week, after the country passed legislation at the end of last year authorising the creation of issuance vehicles.
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The covered bond and ABS markets came into their own this week as soaring volatility, driven by Italy's wrangling over picking a government, effectively shuttered other credit markets, write Asad Ali and Bill Thornhill.
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The new issue European ABS market ploughed on this week, attracting investors still keen to add risk in the face of broader market skittishness. BNP Paribas sold €384m of mezzanine tranches from a French consumer loan ABS, while Argenta Spaarbank shifted €1bn of RMBS.
