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Kevin Duignan to retire after 33 years, mainly in structured finance
First European buy now, pay later securitization expected next year
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Generali is marketing the first green catastrophe bond, a €200m deal called Lion Re III laying off European windstorm and Italian earthquake risk. The structure takes its cue from the growing ESG risk transfer market for banks, which enhances the green impact of a given deal by recycling not just the funding received but the capital saved into green assets. -
The Green and Social Bond Principles organisation published the first new version of the Green Bond Principles since 2018 on Thursday. It strengthens the recommendations that issuers publish a bond framework and obtain an external review, and encourages issuers to communicate about their organisation-wide sustainability efforts, not just the assets linked to the labelled bond.
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Bank of America has set up an EMEA ESG strategic council chaired and led by three senior investment bankers, to intensify its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and manage its climate risks.
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The former head of US CLO syndication at Deutsche Bank, David Ryan, has been hired by Barclays as director on the CLO syndicate desk in the New York office.
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Eagle Point Credit Management, a specialist asset manager focused on investing in CLO securities, has hired Nate Morse as its new head corporate trader.
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The UK is reforming its treatment of special purpose vehicles in an attempt to make itself appear more business-friendly. However, in its attempts to open up the asset class, regulators could inadvertently tie up the market in red tape, as shown by its recent consultation over the possibility of including shares in ABS collateral.
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First Eagle Alternative Credit has hired Nishil Mehta as portfolio manager from Prospect Capital Management, where he was head of capital markets and a CLO portfolio manager.
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Companies with highly structured financial arrangements involving a combination of secured bonds and loans face a particularly arduous second half of the year as they grapple with the transition away from Libor.
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Greece has overtaken Italy as the biggest source of non-performing-loan ABS issuance in Europe, with banks stepping up issuance with a slew of transactions in 2021 as Italian institutions wind down their post-financial crisis backlog of bad debt.
