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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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Securitization bankers are expecting a strong issuance pipeline following the summer lull, with issuers said to be looking further ahead and planning their funding and capital structures more carefully than in the past. Issuers said to be scoping the market include Virgin Money, and NewDay credit cards. -
As Americans across generations, and specifically younger cohorts, delay major life events such as marriage, rent their homes over owning them, shun office life and generally upend the behaviors that defined past generations, the engines that drive US structured finance have slowed. GlobalCapital investigates.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts turned bearish on securitization markets this week, saying that the growing US-China trade war and a flatter US Treasury curve were strong reasons to start taking risk off the table.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co, the Californian utility firm, is using a catastrophe bond to adapt to what it calls the "new normal" of increased wildfire risk. After its equipment was blamed for many of the state’s fires over the past year, PG&E is at the heart of a debate over who should shoulder the costs of rising natural catastrophe damage.
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True Sale International GmbH (TSI), founded in 2004 to expand the German securitization market, has appointed Jan-Peter Hülbert to steer the group forward with a focus on advancing STS regulation and third party certification, according to a press release on Thursday.
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London's finance sector and new technology could expand insurance-linked securities (ILS) outside their traditional domain and package up different risks into tradeable products, according to a Deloitte consultant.
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A €101m securitisation of auto leases to small and medium-sized enterprises this week marked a step in efforts to promote SME lending in Europe with the backing of European institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF).
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Credito Valtellinese S.p.A (Creval) is planning a €1.5bn securitization of performing mortgage loans and unsecured loans to small and medium-sized companies, with the aim of optimising the firm’s cost of funding and supporting SME lending growth.
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Brexit has been a slow-burning problem for the City of London, but burning it is. Financial markets are regulated. With worse access to Europe, the UK must make itself attractive to financial firms in other ways.
