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When the year began, the European securitization market forecast a busy year for itself. Issuance levels in markets from synthetic risk transfer to CLOs had broken issuance records in 2019, with the year ahead expected to match if not outpace the previous year's volumes. Instead, the market found itself grappling with an outbreak which would close up issuance for months and set a new course for ABS. Linked below is a collection of GlobalCapital’s best securitization articles of 2020. -
The UK mortgage market has had its busiest year since 2007 following the government’s increase in the stamp duty threshold at the beginning of the pandemic, which could prove a source of prime UK RMBS supply in 2021.
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European ABS issuance is closing the year with the lowest volumes since 2009, with the Covid-19 economic turmoil and cheap central bank liquidity having deterred issuers from coming to market.
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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has praised new framework for on-balance sheet securitizations in Europe, but warned that it may also make deals more costly and complicated.
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During spring and summer of 2020, mortgage borrowers in the UK took full advantage of the chance for a payment holiday, with some non-conforming mortgage portfolios seeing payments stop on up to 40% of loans. But investors in RMBS stayed largely sanguine, despite the looming rise in unemployment and the potential for holidays to turn into defaults. Could the moratorium make a comeback in the next crisis? Tom Brown reports.
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UniCredit has structured the first non-performing real estate lease securitization in Italy, disposing of part of its leasing business in order to navigate complex legal challenges around managing repossessed properties.
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The significant risk transfer market is usually at its busiest in December, as issuers hope to gain balance sheet benefits by year-end. But 2020 has seen a pullback from investors who have blamed a lack of credit data brought about by Covid-19 payment moratoria.
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The European Parliament and Council have agreed rules that will set the stage for securitization to play a role in helping European banks dig their way out of an impending surge in defaulted loans. The Parliament has added sustainability criteria to the final amendments.
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European banks are looking to reduce their cost of funding by fitting their asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) transactions with the ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) regulatory stamp. Fresh regulations are causing headaches for the issuers, however, prompting increased concerns about the effectiveness of the label.
