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Originate to distribute, the business model oft quoted as one of the primary causes of the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, and by extension, the rest of the financial crisis, is back. But this time it’s different, apparently, or at least backwards.
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Capital requirements ought to be the soft padding that lets the market bounce around without doing any damage. But when they are too high, capital requirements, rather than economics, set the price of a security.
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The risk weights for securitization have been halved, again, in the latest version of Solvency II. Naturally the market is pleased to be further out of the regulatory dog house, but the way risk weights (and therefore careers, businesses and economies) can be slashed at the stroke of a pen ought to give pause for thought.
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The launch of the first green bond index is a coup for Solactive and the Climate Bonds Initiative, though neither of them has put an enormous amount of work into it.
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The Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) has finally caught on. The last quarter saw almost as much borrowing as the entire year previously, suggesting that the banks were right all along — the reason they weren’t lending was because nobody wanted to borrow.
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When Mario Draghi said — for the second time— that the ECB would consider buying ABS to boost Europe’s economic prospects, everyone took note. Everyone, it seems, except Europe’s regulators, who have shown a reluctance to change their anti-securitization tack. It is time for them to swallow some pride and roll back the harshest securitization regulation — before it is too late.
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Would you rather live in a mansion or a horrible little flat? The answer is obvious, right? But UBS’s David Morland shocked Leak this week — he wants to live in a horrible little flat opposite a mansion.
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By Ted Leveroni, head of derivatives strategy, Omgeo In November 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) put forward a recommendation for forward-settling agency mortgage backed securities (MBS) transactions to be margined in order to better manage counterparty exposures.
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When Mario Draghi said — for the second time— that the ECB would consider buying ABS to boost Europe’s economic prospects, everyone took note. Everyone, it seems, except Europe’s regulators, who have shown a reluctance to change their anti-securitization tack. It is time for them to swallow some pride and roll back the harshest securitization regulation — before it is too late.