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Skipton Building Society is bringing a prime sterling RMBS with joint arrangers JP Morgan and Lloyds. The issuer last brought a deal in 2016, pausing the programme in light of the UK government’s Term Funding Scheme (TFS). -
Fixed income brokerage firm Incapital has added four industry veterans to its distribution platform, aiming to expand into asset classes that offer clients higher returns in a low yield market. The team is particularly reinforcing its RMBS and CMBS coverage.
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144A dollar covered bonds issued this week by Santander UK and Nationwide Building Society signal that UK banks have made a strategic return to the asset class after an absence of about 10 years. Their return, which is driven by the need to refinance liquidity borrowed under the Bank of England's Term Funding Scheme, should improve price discovery for dollar denominated securitizations.
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The strong conditions in the sterling denominated securitization markets continued this week, with Close Brothers’ Orbita 2020-1 auto ABS priced on Tuesday and Cerberus’s Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2020-Auburn 14 on Wednesday. Both deals saw large oversubscription levels on the relatively limited volume of bonds available, following the precedent set by the RMBS deals that were priced in January.
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Lloyds is working on another risk transfer deal referencing its high loan-to-value mortgage portfolio, following last year’s debut Syon Securities 2019 issue. Mortgage risk transfer deals are almost unheard of outside the US, thanks to the low risk weights usually applied to performing mortgages, making last year’s Lloyds debut a landmark in synthetic securitization.
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Barclays and JP Morgan were this week marketing the senior notes of Futura 2019 for Guber Banca and Varde at mid-300bps over six month Euribor. The deal gives investors a rare chance to buy publicly syndicated investment grade exposure to Italian non-performing loans.
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Link Group said it has agreed a €165m deal to acquire Pepper Group’s European loan servicing, asset management and advisory business, which will create a servicing group managing €130bn in assets.
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Cerberus has juiced up its latest UK buy-to-let RMBS deal by dropping Moody’s from the deal, which has a more dismal view of the market than its rival rating agencies. Among other structural changes, this has allowed the private equity firm to enlarge its triple-A tranche by more than 10 percentage points, giving a far more efficient capital structure.
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Nationwide priced a three year UK RMBS this week at 47bp, just 10bp back of a recent three year covered bond from Lloyds. It’s the closest the two products have been in years, and potentially a tight enough spread for UK clearing banks to once again bridge the gap and revive securitization as a major source of funding.
