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For all the noise in the US and EU markets this year over risk retention and the harm that it causes issuers and market participants, many in the market admit privately to quite liking the idea. -
The immediate irony of the securitization industry’s efforts to create a “simple, transparent and standardised” framework to boost the market is that once Europe’s politicians got hold of it, it became a complicated, opaque and idiosyncratic way of holding it back.
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The markets have largely endorsed US president-elect Donald Trump’s mission to “make America great again”. But previous populist strongmen, in their quests to prove national strength and virility, have done a world of damage to their country’s economic prospects.
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In a conference speech last Thursday, Prosper president Ron Suber likened the marketplace lending and its use of different funding models to music streaming apps like Spotify and iTunes. But the marketplace lending industry is still dependent on many of the same models that preceded it.
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The incoming presidential administration has made headlines for its proclamations of wide ranging political and economic reforms, but it's also becoming clear that the new president may not be any more willing than his predecessors to tackle one of the most contentious policy issues in the capitol — the reform of the US housing and mortgage finance industry.
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Markets are obsessing about the Italian referendum on Sunday. Commentators are cramming everyone’s inboxes with warnings about how a 'no' vote on premier Matteo Renzi’s attempt to streamline Italy’s Senate could precipitate a fresh eurozone crisis and imperil Italy’s creaking banks.
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Non-performing loan securitization is being pushed as a solution to Europe’s banking woes. The market has potential, but expecting a wave of issuance, rather than a trickle of piecemeal deals, is misguided.
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Last quarter’s 3.2% US GDP growth estimates point to growing confidence in the world’s largest economy and is a sign that the era of the low rates and low growth may be drawing to a close.
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Europe’s securitization bankers need to be more creative if they want the market to break out of its post financial crisis stupor.
