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Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and Santander UK all priced synthetic CLOs for risk transfer purposes just before the year-end, honing their capital positions for full year 2016 reporting. Most of the deals focused on large corporates, an asset class that fuelled much of last year’s boom in risk transfer trades, as banks seek ways to get ahead of increased Basel risk weights. -
There is no evidence to suggest securitization weakens credit standards, according to a Bank for International Settlements study of Italian loans to small and medium sized enterprises published on Tuesday.
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Dutch MEP Paul Tang, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for the “simple, transparent and standardised” securitization framework, has defended his proposed amendments to the bill, arguing that Europe will set a “new world standard” for risk retention requirements through the measures.
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Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have settled with the US Department of Justice, putting an end to some of the worst uncertainties hanging over both banks. But Barclays said that it had been sued by the DoJ in connection with RMBS underwriting, and that it was going to fight the case.
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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's share price plummeted this morning, then rebounded, then fell back again, as fears have shifted to whether the bank can remain solvent, and the Italian government moved to be ready to bail it out.
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The confirmation on Tuesday morning that Lloyds had won the race to buy MBNA, the UK credit cards business owned by Bank of America, means the portfolio has little chance of returning to the securitization market.
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Rabobank, the largest mortgage lender in the Netherlands, announced on Tuesday that it was seeking to register a new Dutch covered bond programme.
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The immediate irony of the securitization industry’s efforts to create a “simple, transparent and standardised” framework to boost the market is that once Europe’s politicians got hold of it, it became a complicated, opaque and idiosyncratic way of holding it back.
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The European securitization industry’s attempt to soften the regulatory treatment of “simple, transparent and standardised” (STS) asset-backed securities was dealt a significant setback by a hawkish European Parliament on Thursday.
