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Challenger ratings agency Scope Ratings has snapped up another Fitch alumnus to beef up its senior management, installing the new hire as head of its newly-created asset based finance team.
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Recent pro-securitization rhetoric from European policymakers rung hollow on Wednesday as a new regulatory document revealed that, while a broader range of ABS can count towards banks' liquidity coverage ratios, RMBS will still suffer punitive treatment — even as covered bonds received a boost. -
Bank of America Merrill Lynch will welcome a director from Citigroup to its structured finance team in three months’ time, GlobalCapital understands.
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Cicero, the Oslo-based climate research institute, is to end its exclusive relationship with SEB in the green bond market. Talks are under way that would enable other banks — probably starting with one or a few — to start using Cicero’s services as an adviser. SEB hopes this will involve creating a wider certification platform for green bonds.
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European Central Bank president Mario Draghi on Thursday signalled monetary policy easing will arrive next month with a rate cut likely, but his hint at “unconventional” action suggested ABS purchases are still very much on the table.
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The Bank of England sprung no surprises on Thursday and held interest rates at 0.5%, but new figures showing arrears continuing to fall are the latest in a run of strong data that has some BoE policymakers agitating for action to cool the housing market.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has grabbed a director from Citigroup to join its commercial real estate structured finance group.
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The Bank of England sprung no surprises on Thursday and held interest rates at 0.5%, but new figures showing arrears continuing to fall are the latest in a run of strong data that has some BoE policymakers agitating for action to cool the housing market.
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US Congressman Mark Takano is urging regulators to scrutinise securitizations of single-family rental properties, such as the deal American Homes 4 Rent is marketing this week. He fears that institutional investors are pushing out first-time homebuyers and that these dynamics could introduce new risks into the public markets, just as housing begins to recover. He spoke with GlobalCapital’s Matt Scully about his concerns.
