The level of Covid-19 payment holidays affecting specialist UK lenders in the UK and fears over the future of the country's economy have failed to dampen demand for their debt among UK RMBS buyers, with the lack of public issuance boosting interest in publicly placed deals.
The number of new managers entering the CLO market has dwindled in 2020 as a result of the pandemic crisis, interrupting years of growth that peaked with an average of 10 new managers a year since 2017.
Small business lender OnDeck has agreed to a $90m cash and stock deal with Enova after months of struggling through the pandemic crisis.
Key government stimulus benefits are set to expire at the end of the month, and as Congress works out what the next coronavirus aid package will look like, the ABS market will see spreads fluctuate and delinquencies spike, with consumer assets to be hardest hit.
The fallout from the Covid-19 crisis has touched nearly every economic and employment sector, from the largest corporations to the smallest businesses. The pain has prompted an unprecedented policy response aimed at rescuing economies and markets, and further measures are likely to come. US commercial real estate has been especially impacted, with commercial mortgage lending slowing dramatically, already struggling retailers going dark across the country and a likely rethinking of the use of space following a nationwide experiment in working from home.
The Bank of Cyrus has announced the sale of a €916m non-performing loan (NPL) portfolio to Pimco, dubbed Project Helix 2 after the first Project Helix cleared €2.7bn of NPLs from the bank’s balance sheet.
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Coventry Building Society (CBS) is racing to price Economic Master Issuer 2020–1, with the help of arrangers HSBC and Lloyds, to meet the huge demand for the deal, which is a hybrid between a master trust structure and a standalone RMBS — the first of its kind. The transaction, set to herald the next step in master issuer structures, is an innovation which could open the door to more financial institutions committing to long-term RMBS programmes, writes Tom Brown.
Point-of-sale (PoS) and small business lender LendingPoint has experienced strong growth in recent years thanks to the growing segment of young consumers that prefer term loans over a credit card. Tom Burnside, co-founder and CEO of the company, spoke with GlobalCapital about why the industry is gaining traction and its upcoming plans for securitization.
The Bank of Cyrus has announced the sale of a €916m non-performing loan (NPL) portfolio to Pimco, dubbed Project Helix 2 after the first Project Helix cleared €2.7bn of NPLs from the bank’s balance sheet.
The US commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) market has lacked the kind of extensive government support that other asset classes have received, though data shows it is experiencing difficulties. But some are optimistic that the US government will provide aid for the market in its next round of Covid-19 relief measures.
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US middle market debt specialist and CLO manager Monroe Capital has hired four staffers to its private credit team in New York and Chicago.
Coventry Building Society (CBS) is racing to price Economic Master Issuer 2020–1, with the help of arrangers HSBC and Lloyds, to meet the huge demand for the deal, which is a hybrid between a master trust structure and a standalone RMBS — the first of its kind. The transaction, set to herald the next step in master issuer structures, is an innovation which could open the door to more financial institutions committing to long-term RMBS programmes, writes Tom Brown.
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