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ABS market professionals are hoping for a Conservative victory in Thursday's UK general election, with many saying they are dreading the uncertainty if the vote results in a hung parliament. -
Despite quantitative easing measures contributing to persistent shrinking in the size of the European RMBS market, panellists at Global ABS on Wednesday were optimistic that the tapering of central bank funding schemes would see a resurgence of supply, as new non-bank lenders grow market share and banks look to refinance retained deals.
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Sources close to the Maltese presidency of the European Council have downplayed the importance of the regular reviews of risk retention rules, agreed under the new rules for 'simple, transparent and standardised' securitizations last week.
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Regulatory technical standards (RTS) related to the simple, transparent, standardised (STS) European securitization framework could take as long as 12 months to finalise, which would leave almost no time between RTS finalisation and STS implementation.
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Barclays US structured credit strategist Brian Ford has returned to Kroll Bond Ratings in New York after a two year stint at the investment bank.
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Corporate and private equity services provider Intertrust has appointed a new global head of capital markets from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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UniCredit’s flagship non-perfoming loan (NPL) sale, Project Fino — which stands for “failure is not an option” — will only raise 40% of its cash up front, with UniCredit granting Pimco and Fortress, the buyers of the €17.7bn portfolio, more than three years to pay the rest.
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The European securitization industry’s “simple, transparent and standardised” regulatory framework has finally been pushed through, with industry practitioners as well as supportive bureaucrats in Brussels saying it will help boost the flow of lending to Europe’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Time will tell if those businesses actually feel the benefit.
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Sovereign debt management offices (DMOs) have lambasted proposals for creating common eurozone ‘safe assets’ in the form of sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBS). The European Commission said this week it planned to review the idea — and is likely to find a more optimistic tone from investors.
