Capital Relief Trades
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Job swaps weekly: Ashurst lures Fried Frank trio
People moves and key promotions in securitisation
This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Ashurst hiring three structured products professionals, including a partner, from Fried Frank. Elsewhere, Capital Four’s US ceo has left the firm after three years, while HFW has appointed two executives from Norton Rose Fulbright to its global shipping and export finance practice.
Ashurst has made three appointments to its US structured products, derivatives and .......
Market Moves 3 May 2024
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Double down
ASRS goes big in SRT in new mandate with AXA
Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) will double its investment in SRT through its new US$400m mandate to AXA IM Alts, announced last week.
The US pension fund has been participating in risk sharing investments since 2019 through a partnership .......
News Analysis 30 April 2024
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Fresh mandate
Frank Benhamou joins Cheyne Capital
Cheyne Capital has announced that Frank Benhamou has joined the firm as Portfolio Manager for its Risk Transfer strategy. The announcement followed the news that the London-based firm was re-entering the SRT market, having previously been active from 2004-2018.
Prior to joining Cheyne, Benhamou spent 17 years at Barclays where, inter alia, he set up and led the .......
News 26 April 2024
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Job swaps weekly: Cheyne Capital snaps up SRT veteran
People moves and key promotions in securitisation
This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Cheyne Capital hiring an SRT veteran who recently left their role at Barclays. Elsewhere, Wilmington Trust has made changes to its global capital markets leadership team, while a risk transfer specialist has left their position at The D. E. Shaw Group ahead of taking up a new role.
Cheyne Capital .......
Market Moves 26 April 2024
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Opening up
LatAm SRT activity gaining traction
SRT activity in Latin America is gaining traction, with three deals now completed - including two in the last 12 months - and more on the horizon. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are playing a crucial role in opening up the region.
Edmund Parker, partner at law firm Mayer Brown, has worked on multiple Latin American synthetic securitisations. He .......
News Analysis 26 April 2024
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Final FCA, PRA rules 'imminent'
Market updates and sector developments
HM Treasury has published a draft statutory instrument that outlines the next steps in the process of replacing the onshored EU legislative regime for securitisation with its own rules under the broader ‘Smarter Regulatory Framework’ (SRF). The draft Securitisation (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (Amending SI) will repeal the EU Securitisation Regulation on 1 November, implying that the new regime – including .......
Market Moves 24 April 2024
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Bridging the gap
Syndicated solution launches for portfolio insurance
As appetite for structured credit solutions continues to grow, insurance balance sheets seem increasingly well suited to meet this demand. However, this brings new challenges for investors, (re)insurers and issuers alike.
One such challenge is the need for banks to spread (re)insurer counterparty risk across several counterparties. The number of insurers needed in placing a transaction can be .......
News 22 April 2024
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Barrier to entry?
SRT allocation under scrutiny
The raft of funded and unfunded buyers seeking to enter the SRT market is driving intense bidding for allocations on deals. Indeed, demand is reportedly rising even for first loss tranches, in an attempt to secure paper.
“Banks will go out to a bunch of investors with a prospective SRT trade and have them do a lot of due .......
News Analysis 19 April 2024
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Moroccan debut
SOFAC launches first synthetic securitisation
Back in December 2023, SOFAC Structured Finance – a subsidiary of Moroccan consumer credit company SOFAC – and CIH Bank launched Morocco’s first synthetic Eurobond fund, following the approval of the local regulator (Autorité Marocaine du Marché des Capitaux (AMMC)). The ensuing transaction, FT SYNTHESIUM, references a portfolio of Eurobonds originated by CIH Bank and issued by the Kingdom .......
News 17 April 2024
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Mr Powell and the banks
B3E looks set to change, but how will it affect US SRT?
Few pronouncements by Federal Reserve chairmen have been as eagerly embraced by the financial community as those made by Jerome Powell in early March about prospects for the Basel 3 Endgame (B3E). No one was paying closer attention than banks that exploit, or want to exploit, the SRT market.
Hitherto, Powell has not emulated the gnomic bearing of .......
News Analysis 12 April 2024
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Balancing act
SRT Market Update
The first quarter was notable for a number of SRT trades referencing investment grade portfolios being executed at very attractive levels (SCI 5 April). While demand arguably exceeded supply, this trend is broadly expected to even itself out during the remainder of the year.
“Supply is not generally very strong during the first quarter. In fact, it's .......
SRT Market Update 12 April 2024
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Latest SRTx fixings released
Tightening in the spread and volatility indexes reflect gene...
The latest fixings for the SRTx (Significant Risk Transfer Index) have been released. Similarly to last month (SCI 6 March), there has been some further incremental tightening in the SRTx Spread Indexes. However and unlike last month’s survey responses, volatility indexes have improved.
SRTx Spread Indexes have moderately tightened in the large corporate category (-3.5% in .......
News 10 April 2024
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Skills gap?
Lack of specialist SRT talent on the market
The SRT sector is in a period of flux, with many new issuers and new investors entering the market (SCI 28 March). Although supply and demand dynamics are expected to find equilibrium in time, for the moment, there appears to be a skills gap among some players on the buy-side.
One long-standing SRT investor points out that the .......
News Analysis 10 April 2024
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SRT Monthly - March 2024
First significant wave of transactions of the year
Issuance overview
SRT Market Update 5 April 2024
During March, the SRT market experienced its first significant wave of transactions of the year (see SCI’s Capital Relief Trades Database). The sector saw longstanding programmes issue - such as CRAFT (Deutsche Bank) and Chakra (Standard Chartered) - as well as seasoned issuers, including Santander (with the Ducati trade) and BNP Paribas, come to the fore .......
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