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Synthetics spur CDS expansion
An evolving synthetic securitisation landscape is fuelling the expansion of the CDS market and CDS-l...
News Analysis 21 February 2018 -
Busy start for UK RMBS
UK RMBS has come flying out of the blocks in 2018, with the end of the Term Funding Scheme (TFS) and...
News Analysis 21 February 2018 -
IFRS 9 credit event pay-out challenged
Synthetic securitisations are unlikely to trigger CDS credit events following an increase in IFRS 9...
News Analysis 16 February 2018 -
'Academic' SBBS to 'lack demand'
A European Systemic Risk Board task force has published a paper arguing that European safe bonds, SB...
News Analysis 16 February 2018 -
French ABS to benefit from new regime
The creation of a new SPV regime in France (SCI 11 October 2017) will boost the country's ABS sector...
News Analysis 14 February 2018 -
Call for consolidation
Bank of Italy governor Ignazio Visco has called for Italian bank consolidation in order to tackle su...
News 12 February 2018 -
Risk retention relief for CLOs
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit last week reversed a lower court decision and ruled in fa...
News Analysis 12 February 2018 -
SCI Start the Week - 12 February
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days.
Pipeline It was yet another busy week of pipeline additions. There were nine ABS, 11 CLOs, three CM...
News 12 February 2018 -
Gearing up for green
Two pilots funded by Horizon 2020 - the EU programme for research and innovation ̵...
News Analysis 6 February 2018 -
Carillion impact gauged
Capital relief trade issuers and investors have been assessing the effect of Carillion's def...
News Analysis 5 February 2018 -
Call for transparency underlined
A push for transparency is a common thread among European initiatives to reinvigorate the securitisa...
News Analysis 2 February 2018 -
APRA signals change in tone
The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has set out its priorities for 2018, most notably wit...
News 1 February 2018 -
Bright start for UK ILS
The first UK ILS launched last month, coinciding with the introduction of the nation's new ILS regul...
News Analysis 1 February 2018 -
Innovative portfolio guarantee inked
The EIF has completed five synthetic securitisations with five Italian banks, in the context of the...
News Analysis 30 January 2018 -
SCI Start the Week - 29 January
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days.
Pipeline The balance of additions to the pipeline last week closely followed that of the week befor...
News 29 January 2018 -
Slicing the risk
Capital relief trade issuers and investors are weighing in on the virtues of a structuring technique...
News Analysis 26 January 2018