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Two new transactions emerged in the European ABS market on Tuesday, with Agos Ducato returning for a new deal from its programmatic Sunrise Italian consumer loan shelf, alongside a debut Swiss auto lease deal from MultiLease. -
Focus Brands, which operates chains such as Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon, is preparing to tap the market for whole business ABS, which industry participants at SFIG Vegas earlier this month said could see a resurgence in deal volume this year from both seasoned and first-time issuers.
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Online small business lender and specialty debt manager Arcadia Funds each priced marketplace loan ABS transactions this week, following a wave of interest surrounding securitization as a funding tool for online lenders at the LendIt 2017 conference held this week in New York.
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Bloomberg is trying to drag European ABS trading into the digital age, signing up several banks to start providing quotes on its ALLQ system for core, prime European ABS asset classes. Some dealers, though, struggle to see the benefit.
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LendIt 2017, held this week in New York, drew twice the number of attendees as last year's event, with online lenders and financial technology pros discussing the potential for the market to expand to new industries and new consumers.
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Creation Consumer Finance, an indirectly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance, sold a debut consumer loan ABS deal on Wednesday. The £570m ($694.44m) transaction was the first bank-originated UK consumer loan deal to be seen in several years.
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FIG issuers have jumped into red hot primary markets in all currencies this week, and a growing pipeline suggests there will be little let-up in activity, despite weaker secondary markets and looming political and economic events that threaten to dent confidence.
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Lenders and other financial institutions need to shed their stereotypes about non-prime borrowers and consider alternative data sources to help expand their access to credit, speakers told conference attendees on day two of LendIt USA 2017 on Tuesday.
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Policy experts speaking on day one of the LendIt 2017 conference in New York on Monday called for more bipartisan support of financial technology if the sector is to thrive, emphasizing the need for greater focus on extending credit to underserved borrowers.
