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Recent pro-securitization rhetoric from European policymakers rung hollow in bankers’ ears this week 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. -
Lloyds Bank’s top securitization banker Robert Plehn is leaving the bank to join GE Capital, as the division is rearranged into FIG and corporate teams, and capital solutions comes into the structured finance fold.
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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.
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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.
