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European and high yield chiefs to take the reins
Kevin Duignan to retire after 33 years, mainly in structured finance
First European buy now, pay later securitization expected next year
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The European Central Bank has asked Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena to raise the coverage levels for its stock of non-performing loans, leading to fears in the market about the Italian lender’s ability to meet its supervisory capital ratios. -
Law firms are struggling to see eye to eye on how to interpret “simple, transparent and standardised” (STS) transparency requirements for US entities issuing in Europe.
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Michael Bright, acting director of Ginnie Mae, has resigned his position and will take up the reins as president and CEO of the Structured Finance Industry Group, effective this month.
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Moody’s is looking at amending its rating approach for multilateral development banks and supranationals in the wake of last year’s groundbreaking African Development Bank ‘Room2Run’ risk transfer deal, proposing explicit ratings credit for ‘credit protection features’ for the first time.
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Banca Carige raised private funding from an institutional investor in May last year through the sale of senior notes in a securitization, perhaps the last time the troubled Italian bank, now facing state recapitalisation, succeeded in raising external funding.
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'Simple, transparent, standardised' (STS) ABS deals are unlikely to be certifiable before the end of January according to third-party verifier Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS). A debate is ongoing within the European Commission over homogeneity requirements and to what degree the final regulatory technical standards (RTS) will differ from previous templates.
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A last-ditch reprieve for the asset-backed commercial paper market late last year saved European banks running securitization conduits from a huge drawing on their liquidity reserves — but details of the fix are still being hashed out.
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A former director in Deutsche’s insurance solutions business has joined Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities team as a principal.
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UK banks printed a flurry of risk transfer securitizations just before the end of last year, hedging portfolios of corporate credit and commercial real estate totalling more than $8.5bn-equivalent.
