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Government-guaranteed loan schemes for SMEs have been rolled out across many developed economies, and now the most pressing part of the coronavirus crisis appears to be passing, policy makers are turning to the tricky question of who wears the losses. Securitization schemes could be deployed in the UK and elsewhere in Europe — but that can only tranche the risk, not make it disappear. -
Jefferies has taken two more bankers from Citi’s EMEA CLO operation to join former syndicate head Laura Coady in setting up a primary CLO team and overhauling its European securitized products business.
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The coronavirus pandemic has catapulted capital markets forward in time. Things thought impossible have come about — above all, a sustained flow of credit through a harsh economic downturn. But are the markets heading for utopia or dystopia?
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Fair Oaks Capital has hired structured finance professional Christos Danias to run marketing in its European CLO group.
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A group of market participants and experts selected by the European Commission produced a series of proposals for the Capital Markets Union in a report published on Wednesday, as the coronavirus crisis gave new impetus to the project.
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Reforms to personal bankruptcy regimes in various countries along the lines of the US Chapter 13 code could improve non-performing loan (NPL) markets by boosting transparency and certainty, according to Charles Rusbasan, chief executive of Balbec Capital, which has just raised a new $1.2bn fund to buy NPLs where borrowers are subject to insolvency proceedings, restructuring or other forms of distress.
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Struggling UK small and medium-sized enterprises could see their debts sold to insurance companies or other institutional investors in a scheme similar to that used to securitize student loans in the country, according to proposals floated by finance lobby group TheCityUK in a report published on Monday.
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Participants in the sustainable bond market are considering allowing issuers to publish their sustainability frameworks after issuing bonds, instead of before. This would be a major change in market practice.
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Shearman & Sterling has hired Mark Chorazak as partner in its global financial institutions advisory and financial regulatory practice in New York.
