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Nordea said that Barclays and JP Morgan, alongside its own investment banking arm Nordea Markets, worked on its landmark €8.4bn synthetic CDO, the bank’s first and the first from the Nordic region.
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Declining primary supply, an increase in buy-and-hold investors and the retreat of dealers has turned the European securitization secondary market into a difficult, illiquid place to trade. But investors are becoming increasingly frustrated even with the dealers that remain in the business. -
Deutsche Bank has replaced its head of European ABS syndicate, Bilal Husain, with an internal switch from its credit sales team.
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More banks than ever are turning to balance sheet CDOs to hedge their loan books, with a boost from Basel plans to increase risk weights for ordinary assets. Institutions such as Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have ramped up their issuance programmes, while others are entering the market for the first time, as with Nordea.
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Proposed amendments to the “simple, transparent and standardised” securitization framework show that European political sentiment towards the market is hardening, with some suggesting raising risk retention even higher than the 20% level previously put forward.
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Following a stress test result that saw its stressed capital ratio dip into negative territory, Monte dei Paschi di Siena is once again turning to heavy duty financial engineering to save its skin, with a giant non-performing loan securitization — the largest ever structured — to clean its balance sheet and unlock a €5bn rights issue. The bank, however, has a tradition of relentless innovation in finance, which hasn’t always served it well.
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Société Générale this week appointed a new European head of leveraged loan syndicate, after the former levloan boss left the bank.
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Latham & Watkins has hired a new structured finance partner for its London office, who joins from Slaughter & May.
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The London Stock Exchange will launch an online private placement platform later this year, hoping to standardise and streamline access to the debt markets for some of Europe's SMEs, and replace "old fashioned" platforms like the Euro PP market. But bankers and lawyers working in Europe's existing private debt markets question the future of the new initiative, writes Silas Brown.
