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The European Supervisory Authorities have tried their best to protect securitization markets from potentially huge damage from January 1 when the new Securitization Regulation comes into effect, encouraging national regulators to apply their powers in a “proportionate and risk-based manner” when new rules come into force next year. -
The European Commission is pushing forward with plans to boost liquidity in the NPL market, promoting a privately owned electronic marketplace to improve transparency and encourage trading. It is inviting ‘industry stakeholders’ to a roundtable, with a plan supposed to be on the table by spring next year.
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UniCredit has sold a €590m portfolio of ‘large ticket’ exposures to two securitization vehicles managed by distressed debt investors.
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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) priced a $459m RMBS deal backed exclusively by mortgages with high loan-to-value ratios on Thursday, the latest in a rapidly diversifying market of non-agency mortgage credit.
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The launch of the uniform mortgage backed security (UMBS) in June 2019 is approaching, but investors continue to voice uncertainty about the merits of the changes to the to be announced (TBA) market and are less prepared than US government officials would hope.
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Eurobank’s ambitious scheme to fully merge with its real estate firm Grivalia, hive off €7bn of NPLs, and sell a stake in its servicer was rightly welcomed by the market, with the shares bouncing on Monday morning and other Greek indices rallying. But it’s not something the country’s other banks can count on — the scheme relies on a generous backer, willing to double down on the troubled economy.
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A tie-up with real estate firm Grivalia will allow Eurobank to accelerate the reduction of its non-performing exposures, the Greek lender said on Monday. The country’s banks normally face equity dilution from writing down bad loans, under a law relating to deferred tax credits (DTCs), but Eurobank has found a structural way to get around that.
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On Thursday, the Bank of Greece revealed plans to manage the banking sector’s non-performing loans through securitizing them in a vehicle capitalised by the banks’ deferred tax credits (DTCs) — the latest move to speed up the push to clean up lenders’ balance sheets in the country.
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EU authorities are allergic to complex financial products — except when they solve a problem for the EU.
