CLOs

  • MNHD plans programmatic issuance

    Sector developments and company hires

    Egyptian securitisation debuts
    Egyptian real estate developer Madinet Nasr Housing and Development (MNHD) has closed its inaugural securitisation, issued by Financial Group for Securitization Company (FGS). The transaction is backed by an EGP370m receivables portfolio originated as part of the company's plan to monetise receivables from delivered units in the Primera, Tag Sultan and Waha projects. The three tranches of the .......

    Market Moves 23 December 2019

  • SCI's latest podcast is now live!

    The editorial team discuss key issues in securitisation today...

    In this episode of the SCI podcast, Mark Pelham and Corinne Smith discuss our new research report on standardised banks' capital relief trades and where European securitisation investors are looking to find relative value in the year ahead.

    This podcast and previous episodes can be accessed via the SCI site, online here as well as wherever you usually get .......

    News 19 December 2019

  • Risk participation programme agreed

    Sector developments and company hires

    CLO vulnerabilities eyed
    The Financial Stability Board has published a report assessing the financial stability implications of developments in the global leveraged loan and CLO markets. Based on a combination of available data and analyses from FSB members, the report concludes that vulnerabilities in the sector have grown since the financial crisis. Specifically, it notes that: borrower leverage has increased; changes .......

    Market Moves 19 December 2019

  • GSE price-fixing lawsuit settled

    Sector developments and company hires

    CLO manager transfer
    Hunt Investment Management has assigned collateral manager duties for the Hunt CRE 2017-FL1 and Hunt CRE 2018-FL2 CRE CLOs to OREC Investment Management. Moody's has confirmed that the move will not result in any adverse rating action. For more CDO manager transfers, see SCI’s database.

    Credit opportunity fund
    Arrow Global’s new Arrow Credit Opportunities SCSp fund has raised €628.5m .......

    Market Moves 18 December 2019

  • Structured credit pro returns to the buy-side

    Sector developments and company hires

    EMEA
    Kingswood Holdings has appointed Lindsey McMurray and Howard Garland to its board from Pollen Street Capital. The move is as per the terms of the investment completed in September, which saw up to £80m committed by way of an issue of irredeemable convertible preference shares to certain investors and funds managed or advised by Pollen Street.  McMurray founded Pollen Street in .......

    Market Moves 17 December 2019

  • 2020 vision

    Looking for relative value in European securitisation

    Next year seems likely to present structured finance investors with even greater challenges in the search for yield. Nevertheless, relative value is to be found in 2020 for those looking in the right places.

    Macro and geopolitical factors should always inform asset allocation strategies. But for 2020, their importance is even greater, according to Rob Ford, partner and portfolio manager .......

    News Analysis 11 December 2019

  • Ratings volatility?

    CLO single-B minus scenarios tested

    Single-B minus rated obligors currently constitute a record high of nearly 19% of US broadly-syndicated loan CLO exposure, according to S&P figures. To address concern over the credit stability of these companies and the potential for downgrades to inflate triple-C buckets, the rating agency has published a scenario analysis that explores the possible impact of such ratings volatility on the .......

    News 10 December 2019

  • Alternative credit platform expands

    Sector developments and company hires

    CFO appointed
    Annaly Capital Management has appointed Serena Wolfe as cfo and a member of its operating committee. Glenn Votek, the company’s cfo and interim ceo and president (SCI 21 November), has stepped down from his role as cfo. Wolfe most recently served as a partner at Ernst & Young since 2011 and as its Central Region Real Estate Hospitality .......

    Market Moves 10 December 2019

  • Turbo feature for CLO reset

    Sector developments and company hires

    Early upgrade
    DBRS Morningstar has taken the unusual step of upgrading from double-B (low) to double-B the class E notes issued by Autonoria Spain 2019 a week after the transaction priced (SCI 2 December). The move follows the final pricing of the coupons on the notes and the three interest rate swaps, which resulted in an overall reduction in costs .......

    Market Moves 9 December 2019

  • ABS head retired

    Sector developments and company hires

    ABS head retires

    Janus Henderson’s head of ABS investment Ed Panek has now retired from the company and the industry. Colin Fleury, the head of secured credit will assume direct responsibility for the ABS team. Fleury has extensive experience working with ABS, having previously fulfilled the head of ABS investment role. A more junior securitisation expert is being recruited to .......

    Market Moves 6 December 2019

  • US CLO debuts

    Transaction marks first for bank's AM arm

    Morgan Stanley’s asset management division is entering the CLO space with a new transaction. Dubbed 522 Funding I, the US$457.25 million transaction is the first CLO to be managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

    The transaction is rated by S&P and Fitch as triple-A/triple-A on the US$279m class-A notes (three-month Libor plus 139bp) while just Fitch has rated the US$13.5m class .......

    News 4 December 2019

  • Credit analysts poached

    Sector developments and company hires

    Credit analysts poached

    Cairn Capital has appointed José Ferrero and Vihren Jordanov as senior credit analysts, focusing on loans and reporting to credit research head Mark Stieler. Ferrero was previously a credit analyst at Partners Group, where he was responsible for European coverage of the business and consumer services, chemicals and healthcare sectors. Jordanov joins from Alcentra, where he was .......

    Market Moves 4 December 2019

  • First "true" ESG CLO launched

    Transaction marks first of many ESG deals for issuer

    NIBC recently priced the first fully-compliant ESG CLO, North Westerly VI, utilising a wholly exclusionary loan section process. The €410m transaction is expected to be the first of many ESG-compliant transactions from the firm, which also plans to bring North Westerly V onto the same reporting platform and in line with ESG best practices next year.

    North Westerly VI is .......

    News Analysis 3 December 2019

  • Euro AM promotes three

    Sector developments and company hires

    AM promotes three

    Alcentra has promoted Daniel Fabian to president and coo. In this role, he will manage the company’s growth strategy and oversee day-to-day operations in order to continue to drive value for clients and employees. Fabian has spent the past 12 years at Alcentra, of which the last four years have been as coo and cfo, bringing the .......

    Market Moves 2 December 2019

  • Euro lending support announced

    Sector developments and company hires

    Euro lending support announced

    The EIF has committed €100m to online lending marketplace October. The investment renews its support to European SMEs, under the “Private Credit Tailored for SMEs” programme, alongside other institutional investors including CNP Assurances, Bpifrance and Zencap - all of whom were already part of the latest institutional fund launched in 2018.

    This new €100m commitment will .......

    Market Moves 28 November 2019

  • Italian market developments 'positive' for ABS

    Sector developments and company hires

    Italian market developments ‘positive’ for ABS

    Recent market developments in in the Cessione del Quinto (CDQ) and Delegazione di Pagamento (DP) loan market are credit positive for ABS, according to structured finance analysts from Moody’s. The analysts add that increasing regulatory scrutiny limits the risk of poor underwriting, while lower capital requirements support further loan growth. Both developments .......

    Market Moves 27 November 2019

  • Indian innovation

    Diverse Indian ABS market sees growing, global investor base

    The Indian securitisation market continues to grow and develop, with an increasingly global investor base eager to tap into an ever-innovating product range, including CLOs, green bonds and microfinance-backed transactions. On top of this, new legislation proposes a government-backed partial guarantee structure for select transactions, which has the potential to enable almost US$15bn worth of placements with public sector .......

    News Analysis 26 November 2019

  • Mortgage partnership announced

    Sector hires and company developments

    Euro credit team bulks up

    CIFC has hired Anders Samuelsen from Muzinich as it continues to build its European team.  Samuelsen, who began his career as a credit portfolio manager at Saxo Privatbank in Denmark, will be based in London, and joins as vp, focusing on northern Europe. CIFC has also announced the hire of Aidan Reynolds, from .......

    Market Moves 25 November 2019

  • SCI Start the week - 25 November

    A review of securitisation activity over the past seven days

    Transaction of the week

    Hercules tapped

    Alpha Bank is set to securitise a €12bn mixed portfolio of retail secured and unsecured loans, mortgage and wholesale non-performing loans in 1H20. Dubbed Project Galaxy, the transaction protects shareholders from dilution and is one of the first to utilise the Greek government's Hercules asset protection scheme (HAPS) (SCI 11 October).

    Alpha .......

    News 25 November 2019

  • FRTB consultation launched

    Sector developments and company hires

    APAC poll highlights key risks

    More than 80% of market participants polled by Moody’s at its recent Asia Pacific Structured Finance Conference in Singapore identified slowing global economic growth as posing a key risk for the Asia Pacific finance sector in 2020. In particular, 54% of respondents said that trade tensions were the biggest threat to Asia Pacific economies next year – .......

    Market Moves 22 November 2019

  • Ceo retires

    Sector developments and company hires

    Capital markets head appointed

    23 Capital has hired Sreesha Vaman as md, head of capital markets. 23 Capital is a capital and solutions provider focused on the sports, music and entertainment sectors. Vaman has more than 15 years of experience across the finance, investment banking, sports and entertainment landscape and is joining the team’s New York office with .......

    Market Moves 21 November 2019
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