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Barclays wants to be a bank that puts origination first. But can it justify shutting dedicated secondary businesses?
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Funding for small and medium enterprises is everyone’s favourite thing. But unless it makes money, nobody will do it.
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Regulators, politicians and investors are right to be sceptical about synthetic securitizations as a tool for transferring risk. Pre-crisis deals were rife with confusing, and at times dishonest, documentation. But with the right approach, these deals can help banks reduce their risk and give qualified investors access to much needed yield.
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The Swiss bank was mandated for a French RMBS for Crédit Foncier de France – perhaps a surprising move for some who thought the bank was fully out of the securitization business.
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More than half a year into the European Central Bank’s Asset-Backed Securities Purchase Programme, there are some in the market who are dubious about the impact the initiative can have on the European ABS market. -
Green bonds, SRI, ESG — they’re all pretty much the same, right? Wrong.
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Catalunya is famed for being the most independently-minded of Spain’s regions, but separatism was the last thing on the minds of Global ABS delegates this year. Securitization is becoming part of Europe once again, and GlobalCapital — reporting from our very own Special Purpose Vehicle — has all the gossip from the conference’s most positive outing in recent memory.
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More than five years of intense lobbying later, and the securitization market still has the same set of complaints. Maybe next year things will be better.
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Several ABS are being marketed this week in Barcelona, where delegates are meeting for IMN and AFME's Global ABS securitization conference — but the market is showing signs of stress.
