Advisor/Service Provider of the Year: Scope Ratings

Scope Ratings has been selected as SCI’s Advisor/Service Provider of the Year, thanks to i...

Credit Insurer of the Year: Arch Capital Group

Arch Capital Group Ltd (ACGL) is SCI’s Credit Insurer of the Year in recognition of its po...

A review of securitisation activity over the past seven days

Transaction of the week Goldman Sachs is in the market with an unusual UK buy-to-let RMBS secured b...

Downturn could spur CRT secondary activity

Capital relief trade secondary market activity remains minimal. However, a credit downturn could spu...

Sector developments and company hires

CDO transfer CVP CLO Manager has resigned as investment manager to the CVP Cascade CLO-1 and CLO-2...

NPL ABS opinion welcomed, although challenges remain

The EBA’s recent opinion on non-performing loan securitisations (SCI 24 October) has been...

RTS leaves disclosure challenges unresolved

The European Commission’s long-awaited regulatory technical standards on securitisation di...

EBA to propose harmonised excess spread treatment

The EBA is set to propose a harmonised regulatory treatment for excess spread in significant risk tr...

Law Firm of the Year: Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance has been involved in the capital relief trades market from the beginning and the pas...

Sector developments and company hires

EMEA Florent Trouiller has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in its Luxembourg office. Tr...

CRT sector developments and deal news

Santander is rumoured to be readying two synthetic securitisations of consumer loans. The issuer has...

Investor of the Year: European Investment Fund

The European Investment Fund (EIF) provides an unparalleled level of support to the capital relief t...

New style reinsurance vehicles yet to take off

Almost a year since launch risk-remote reinsurance capacity vehicle Vermeer Re is yet to have any di...

Sector developments and company hires

Anti-NSDA provisions welcomed The inclusion of anti-net short debt activism (NSDA) provisions in of...

Innovation of the Year: FCT Jupiter 2019

Societe Generale’s US$3.4bn FCT Jupiter 2019 transaction has won SCI’s Innovatio...

Impact Deal of the Year: Room2Run

As the first-ever synthetic impact securitisation with a multilateral development bank (MDB), Room2R...