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The news that seven open ended commercial real estate funds froze redemptions this week should come as no surprise. Funding highly illiquid, chunky investments with cash that investors can pull at short notice is a flawed strategy.
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MEP Paul Tang’s proposal to hike European ABS risk retention to 20% is grounded in a worn-out characterisation of structured finance, and shows that the industry is still struggling to shake off the perception of the US subprime crisis. -
The securitization industry’s efforts to educate legislators about the asset class are making progress – but there’s still a long way to go to help politicians overcome big screen characterisations of structured finance.
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The first ever public marketplace loan securitization in Europe has finally priced. The deal’s difficult execution isn’t a great advert for marketplace lending, but deals from other platforms should have a different experience — they are, after all, different asset classes.
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The Italian government and Banca Popolare di Bari’s board are proud that work has begun on dealing with the country’s non-performing loans (NPLs) problem, only six weeks after the new guarantee scheme was signed into law. But the hard parts are still to come.
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Regulations that have heavily favoured covered bonds over the European securitization market and that have little foundation in prudential risk are storing problems for the future. A report published on Tuesday by the Dutch central bank illustrating the regulatory mauling of the securitization market shows that nothing has changed.
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Lack of liquidity, not weakened credit conditions, has been the driving force sending marketplace lending securitization spreads wide by the hundreds, panelists at ABS Vegas said on Monday.
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Large financial institutions may be unwilling to continue to make markets in securitizations if punitive liquidity regulation in the ABS space continues, according to panellists at ABS Vegas.
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Representatives from Women in Securitization, a Structured Finance Industry Group initiative, said that a lack of transparency and employer accountability in the reporting of employee diversity is one of the main hurdles to changing the landscape of a traditionally male-dominated industry.
