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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. -
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.
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Sidley Austin has hired Steven Koyler to join the firm’s global finance practice as a partner in New York.
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Barclays launched a new asset-backed commercial paper conduit, Sunderland Receivables, receiving a prime rating for the new vehicle on December 24, part of a broader overhaul of the bank’s asset finance operations which has been running for the past year — and a canny move to get ahead of European regulation.
