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  • Deutsche Bank has been mandated on Alpha Bank’s ‘Project Galaxy’ NPL sale, likely to be the first to use Greece’s new non-performing loan guarantee scheme known as ‘Hercules’. Like its compatriot Eurobank, the sale will include the spin-off of an NPL management division as well as the loan exposures themselves.
  • JP Morgan has arranged an Italian non-performing loan securitization for Guber Banca. The deal parcels a €1.25bn book, in only the third Italian NPL securitization not to use the government’s GACS guarantee scheme since it was introduced. Class A notes in the deal may be sold next year, subject to market conditions.
  • Market participants are expecting 2020 to be a very active year for covered bonds, with new issuance volume underpinned by growth in French and German banks' mortgage books.
  • Liquidity in securitizations is better than in almost all other credit assets classes in Europe, with auto ABS and UK prime RMBS trading on tighter spreads than even covered bonds, analysis from Bank of America’s research team shows.
  • Where securitization was once a prime hunting ground for financial sponsors and hedge funds, some of the largest asset management houses are now setting up units to beat the top predators of the capital markets at their own game, taking the other side of the securitization arbitrage
  • While the outlook for a long-awaited reform of mortgage finance and the government-sponsored enterprises is uncertain in an election year, non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) are clawing their way back into US capital markets
  • Members of the European Parliament have restarted work on a controversial file on the secondary market for non-performing loans. They failed to come to an agreement last spring, with MEPs disputing the level of protection that should be granted to retail consumers.
  • A decade after self-certified mortgages drove heavy losses in RMBS, a fintech start-up is using automated data-gathering to vet borrower affordability in real-time, speeding up mortgage securitization in the process.
  • Hoist Finance has issued €337m of notes in what is the first investment-grade Italian securitization to be backed wholly by unsecured non-performing loans (NPLs).