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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.
  • ABS
    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.
  • 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.
  • Crédit Agricole has announced a trio of hires that will expand its capabilities in the US credit markets, including a new head of ABS syndicate with experience in both traditional banking and financial technology.
  • ABS
    Vivint is issuing its debut solar asset securitization, a $355 million offering that marks the year’s first ABS deal to be backed by power purchase agreements and leases.
  • The World Bank’s pandemic bond, launched last June, was innovative in its coverage and objectives. Therefore the recent potential trigger events after outbreaks of Lassa Fever in Nigeria and of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo offer valuable new insight into how the product functions.
  • ABS
    Online subprime consumer lender Avant priced an unsecured consumer loan securitization on Tuesday, boosting the size of the deal from $221.93m to $285m.
  • The European Commission has defended its plans to forge ahead ahead with plans to introduce sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS), despite market participants’ lack of enthusiasm for the project.
  • The European Commission is forging ahead with plans to introduce sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS), despite market participants’ lack of enthusiasm for the project.