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Six months into its inception, the ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) securitization framework seems to be doing its job. It has successfully established a market set to inherit the majority of ABS issuance, with issuers noting a raft of new investors operating in the sector. But have those buyers made a wrong assumption about how the ECB views STS deals? -
Lloyds Bank has appointed heads to several of the banks fixed income groups, while also announcing the retirement of securitized products group (SPG) chief Parker Russell.
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Chris Rigby, who formerly ran Lloyds’s ABCP conduit business, has joined Stenn International, a supply chain and trade finance company, as global head of finance and capital markets.
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A long-standing capital markets practitioner is leaving BNP Paribas.
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Terranova finds new ground at BNPP — BBVA appoints equity head from Commerz — Czornik joins JPM for German M&A
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Residential PACE provider Renew Financial has promoted Mary Kathryn Lynch, who has worked in finance and capital markets at the company for about three-and-a-half years, to the position of chief financial officer.
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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) is preparing a response to the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s mortgage market consultation, to try to ensure that rules intended to help ‘mortgage prisoners’ do not hurt the broader UK securitization market.
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Edward Altman, creator of the Z-score metric predicting corporate bankruptcies, has co-founded a new company that automates credit scores for small and medium sized firms. That could help provide ratings for the SME CLO market.
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The suspension of the Woodford Equity Income Fund and the collapse of London Capital & Finance show how retail investors lack regulatory protection. This is strange, when a source of safer returns — bonds issued by large banks — is often deemed too complex and risky for the ordinary person to invest in.
