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Barclays US structured credit strategist Brian Ford has returned to Kroll Bond Ratings in New York after a two year stint at the investment bank.
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Corporate and private equity services provider Intertrust has appointed a new global head of capital markets from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. -
UniCredit’s flagship non-perfoming loan (NPL) sale, Project Fino — which stands for “failure is not an option” — will only raise 40% of its cash up front, with UniCredit granting Pimco and Fortress, the buyers of the €17.7bn portfolio, more than three years to pay the rest.
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The European securitization industry’s “simple, transparent and standardised” regulatory framework has finally been pushed through, with industry practitioners as well as supportive bureaucrats in Brussels saying it will help boost the flow of lending to Europe’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Time will tell if those businesses actually feel the benefit.
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Sovereign debt management offices (DMOs) have lambasted proposals for creating common eurozone ‘safe assets’ in the form of sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS). The European Commission said this week it planned to review the idea — and is likely to find a more optimistic tone from investors.
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Martin Nijboer, the head of global capital markets and securitizations at ING, has left the company GlobalCapital understands.
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The next steps in the war to restore European securitization will be risk weights, Solvency II, and the end of excess central bank liquidity, according to market participants who cheered last Tuesday’s agreement on the structure of a ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) label for European securitizations.
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The European Parliament, Commission and Council have ended a years long standoff over the treatment of European securitization, reaching political agreement over the ‘simple, transparent, standardised’ (STS) ABS framework on Tuesday. GlobalCapital assesses the impact.
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A plan buried in the Conservative Manifesto calling for the creation of UK sovereign wealth funds should be taken on whichever party finds itself in power next month.
