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Spanish sovereign ceiling lifted
Moody's has raised the maximum achievable rating for Spanish structured finance transactions to A1 f...
News Round-up 26 February 2014 -
RFC issued on privacy approach
The US SEC has reopened for comment its proposals for ABS shelf-eligibility under Regulation AB 2. S...
News Round-up 26 February 2014 -
SPVs implementing FATCA remedies
SPVs incorporated outside the US are likely to take the necessary steps required to ensure that they...
News Round-up 25 February 2014 -
TRACE reprieve for CDOs, CMBS
FINRA will exclude CDOs, CBOs, CLOs and non-agency CMBS from its proposal to expand TRACE's coverage...
News Round-up 25 February 2014 -
Structured products pro brought in
Filippo Sampietro has moved to GoldenTree Asset Management to work on structured products. He former...
Job Swaps 25 February 2014 -
Structured FI group boosted
Sanjeev Khurana has joined Janney Montgomery Scott in New York as md from Pierpont Securities. He ha...
Job Swaps 25 February 2014 -
Broker-dealer adds senior pair
Bonwick Capital Partners has hired Ray Gatten and Phillip Toth to boost its fixed income securitisat...
Job Swaps 24 February 2014 -
Surge in SFR issuance anticipated
US home rental securitisation issuance is predicted to hit US$5bn this year. The increasing cost of...
News Round-up 21 February 2014 -
Canadian ABS to remain robust
DBRS notes in its annual review of Canada's structured finance market that the combined effect of co...
News Round-up 21 February 2014 -
Further CRA improvements required
ESMA has published its Annual Report 2013 on credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the EU. The report als...
News Round-up 21 February 2014 -
Asset finance team beefs up
Carey Hansford has joined Aldermore Bank's asset finance team as structured products business develo...
Job Swaps 21 February 2014 -
Credit fund redemptions persist
Investors allocated an estimated US$4.9bn to hedge funds last month, but performance losses of US$12...
News Round-up 20 February 2014 -
Reg AB 2 recommendations filed
SFIG says it has filed a letter with the US SEC recommending revisions to the loan-level disclosure...
News Round-up 20 February 2014 -
Supply squeeze
Spread compression to drive non-core issuance
A supply squeeze in European ABS is driving spread compression across asset classes and between seni...
News Analysis 19 February 2014 -
MSHDA case to set precedent?
The Lehman bankruptcy court in December applied the US Bankruptcy Code's safe harbour for swaps in d...
News Round-up 18 February 2014 -
Fund administrator acquired
TMF Group has purchased an outstanding 49% of Custom House Global Fund Services to become the sole o...
Job Swaps 18 February 2014