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Joanna Chan is taking on the role of head of strategic capital
Key points of contention include the investor sanctions regime and the definition of 'resilience'
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Fund investors have taken on the senior debt supporting a €1.4bn acquisition of a Bank of Cyprus non-performing loan portfolio by Apollo Global Management last week, despite its lack of a rating. -
Regulatory pressures are pushing banks into shedding unwanted assets. And on the other side of the table, new investors have diversified the marketplace. Jasper Cox reports.
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The Investment Association, the trade body for 250 UK asset managers, is making a concerted effort to become more involved in responsible investment, seeking to influence government policy and help its members navigate this complex area.
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The Investment Association, the trade body for UK asset managers, has published responses to two European Commission consultations on aspects of its Sustainable Finance Action Plan — the Taxonomy of environmentally sustainable economic activities and disclosures on sustainable investments and sustainability risks.
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Banks and funds are being inundated with applications from staff trying to leave the rating agencies, as those firms gear up to relocate staff to Europe to comply with ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) guidelines.
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Northcross Capital, the specialist manager that sponsors the Anglesea Funding asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduit, launched two of the first new ABCP vehicles structured seen in years: Glencove Funding and Longship Funding.
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Diversified payment receivables securitizations, a deal structure used extensively by Turkey’s big banks, could be a vital route to help these institutions access more hard currency term funding as the crisis in the country deepens. But these deals have increasingly relied on development institutions in recent years, rather than private demand.
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Instead of acting as the saviour of noteholders, Clifden was simply to trying to profit from the hurriedly arranged pre-pack administration of Fairhold, a pre-crisis CMBS now in distress, according to a judge in the UK High Court on Friday. It was an ‘unprincipled asset grab’, the judge told the court on the concluding day of the hearing.
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London's finance sector and new technology could expand insurance-linked securities (ILS) outside their traditional domain and package up different risks into tradeable products, according to a Deloitte consultant.
