European Securitization

Despite a tepid response in a 2024 consultation, there are signs EU authorities are laying the groundwork

GlobalCapital is pleased to announce the shortlists and open the main voting round for the European Securitization Awards 2026

$450m add-on makes deal more efficient

Third deconsolidation RMBS from a UK challenger bank since November

Parliament’s draft amendments are kinder to the market than Commission's

Pricing on junior mezzanine notes is diverging as managers have to cope with difficult conditions

◆ Data centres: crunch time for Europe's capital markets ◆ How AI is changing capital markets work... ◆ ... and hiring

Manager extends non-call by a year, tapping into market for shorter-dated deals

First exclusively Estonian securitization the European Investment Bank has supported

Unparalleled European CLO market activity in 2025 compressed spreads and raised the possibility of a bigger standard for benchmark size. But, as Thomas Hopkins reports, leveraged loan market volatility will increasingly lead to tiering in the pricing different managers can achieve

The conditions are set so that 2026 promises to be even better than the already impressive 2025. A deepening of esoteric asset classes, combined with entirely new deal types, as well as more debut issuers are set to be the key themes, writes Tom Hall

EU politicians talk enthusiastically about making the bloc more competitive, but so far, its capital markets have struggled to match the efficiency of the US. Whether it can meet the booming demand for data centres will be a defining test of its ambitions, write George Smith, Chadwick Van Estrop and Thomas Hopkins