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€300m of reoffered bonds priced at par, another tranche to be placed privately
Deals including some commercial mortgages expected to follow
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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. -
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.
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Together Money is preparing to refinance its 2021 high yield bond with a new £385m senior secured issue, the first sterling deal of the year. The storming performance of the euro and dollar markets have meant that, despite the increased post-election appetite for the UK currency, it simply cannot compete on pricing for many issuers.
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Cerberus has added Citi to its standard syndicate of Bank of America and Morgan Stanley for its latest Towd Point RMBS, which refinances part of the buy-to-let mortgage portfolio it acquired when it bought Capital Home Loans. The new deal is a far more efficient capital structure than the deal it replaces, thanks in part to changes in the rating agency line-up.
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Hopes that insurance investors could flood back into the market for mezz tranches have been dashed, after Europe’s insurance regulator closed its feedback session on revamping Solvency II without mention of any changes to the securitization capital treatment.
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Kensington is bringing a non-standard UK prime RMBS from its Finsbury Square shelf as spreads on UK RMBS continue to tighten in the first weeks of 2020. Meanwhile, Close Brothers is also returning with a new Orbita Funding UK Auto ABS transaction.
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Nationwide has unveiled a new securitization from its Silverstone master trust, against a market backdrop in sterling prime RMBS as strong as at any time since the global financial crisis. The UK building society is focused on price for the new deal, which is likely to be in three year sterling format.
