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The European Commission is moving ahead with plans to develop sovereign bond-backed securities — which some market watchers have dubbed a “common eurozone safe asset”. The efforts come despite the idea being met with disdain from sovereign debt management offices (DMOs) earlier this year. -
Though the European Central Bank’s October 26 meeting has been very well talked about as the point at which it could start to step back from buying bonds, FIG investors remain focused on other issues.
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An uptick in the three year federal student loan default rate is not likely to dampen the performance of Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) ABS, but will be a drag on household balance sheets.
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Once again, fintech was a hot topic at the annual ABS East conference in Miami Beach last month. But unlike in the past, the focus was not on the newest trend among marketplace lenders or payments companies, which are looking more like run of the mill banking institutions, but on how technology will enhance, digitize and eventually automate financial services.
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The decision to strip AIG of its designation as a systemically important financial institution (Sifi) says more about the arbitrary and confusing nature of the Sifi designation process, rather than the American insurance giant’s importance in the US financial system.
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Online lender SoFi is in the market with a new deal backed by refinanced student loans, as the company continues to deal with the departure of senior executives and allegations of misconduct which dented demand for its previous transaction.
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Dividend Solar priced its first solar ABS transaction at the end of last week, as market chatter around the asset class increases on the back of rumors of more issuance during last month’s ABS East industry conference.
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Socram Banque has begun marketing the second French auto ABS deal of 2017.
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UK credit card provider NewDay has mandated a credit card securitization from its NewDay Partnership Funding Master Trust, its second ABS transaction of the year.
