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Despite a tepid response in a 2024 consultation, there are signs EU authorities are laying the groundwork
European and high yield chiefs to take the reins
Kevin Duignan to retire after 33 years, mainly in structured finance
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More banks than ever are turning to balance sheet CDOs to hedge their loan books, with a boost from Basel plans to increase risk weights for ordinary assets. Institutions such as Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have ramped up their issuance programmes, while others are entering the market for the first time, as with Nordea.
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Proposed amendments to the “simple, transparent and standardised” securitization framework show that European political sentiment towards the market is hardening, with some suggesting raising risk retention even higher than the 20% level previously put forward. -
Following a stress test result that saw its stressed capital ratio dip into negative territory, Monte dei Paschi di Siena is once again turning to heavy duty financial engineering to save its skin, with a giant non-performing loan securitization — the largest ever structured — to clean its balance sheet and unlock a €5bn rights issue. The bank, however, has a tradition of relentless innovation in finance, which hasn’t always served it well.
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Société Générale this week appointed a new European head of leveraged loan syndicate, after the former levloan boss left the bank.
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Latham & Watkins has hired a new structured finance partner for its London office, who joins from Slaughter & May.
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The London Stock Exchange will launch an online private placement platform later this year, hoping to standardise and streamline access to the debt markets for some of Europe's SMEs, and replace "old fashioned" platforms like the Euro PP market. But bankers and lawyers working in Europe's existing private debt markets question the future of the new initiative, writes Silas Brown.
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The secret £1.5bn securitization which fuelled Goldman Sachs’ DCM numbers in the second quarter is being sold piecemeal, with as much as £400m still left to place in the senior notes. The deal saw Goldman buy an old Barclays portfolio, split it in two, and securitize performing and non-performing loans, writes Owen Sanderson.
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BNP Paribas's overhaul of its securitization business has stepped up a notch with the hire of two directors from Deutsche Bank's primary structured credit business.
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Goldman Sachs’s excellent DCM numbers this quarter were driven in large part by the lucrative exit from a large book of ex-Barclays loans, sold from the British bank’s non-core division to a consortium including Goldman last autumn.
