Capital Relief Trades
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Risk transfer round-up - 26 October
CRT sector developments and deal news
RBS is believed to be prepping a corporate capital relief trade that is expected to close in 4Q20. The UK lender’s last significant risk transfer transaction settled earlier this year and referenced project finance loans (SCI 31 January).
....... News 26 October 2020
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Corona kickstart
Constellation of factors coalesced to push the US CRT market forward
Covid 19 may have given the US CRT market the kick start it needed, suggests David Felsenthal, a New York-based partner at leading global law practice Clifford Chance.
“Coronavirus has underlined the value of capital. People are sensitive to the fact that they might need capital going forward, and CRT gives you capital relief,” he says.
Over the past seven or eight months, .......
News 23 October 2020
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Environmental risk score rolled out
Sector developments and company hires
CMBS environmental risk score rolled out
Market Moves 23 October 2020
Trepp has implemented a new data integration with Risk Management Solutions (RMS) that aims to help evaluate and manage global risk from natural and man-made catastrophes. The solution provides an environmental risk score for properties backing CMBS loans, ranging from one to five, that measure the likelihood of property damage and business interruption from .......
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Risk transfer return
BDK preps capital relief trade
Bank Deutsches Kraftfahrzeuggewerbe (BDK) is marketing a full-stack capital relief trade backed by a static €1bn German auto loan portfolio. Dubbed Red & Black Auto Germany Seven, the deal is broadly similar to R&B Six, although changes have been made to the composition of the portfolio and the payment triggers.
Rated by S&P and Fitch, the transaction consists .......
News 23 October 2020
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Risk transfer round-up - 21 October
CRT sector developments and deal news
Lloyds is believed to still be attempting to execute its second transaction from the Fontwell programme. The deal is backed by agricultural loans and was expected to close in 3Q20, but the bank has allegedly found it hard to sell the mezzanine tranche at below 5%. The last Fontwell deal closed in December 2016 (see SCI’s capital relief trades .......
News 21 October 2020
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Risk transfer round-up - 20 October
CRT sector developments and deal news
Standard Chartered is rumoured to be prepping a capital relief trade backed by emerging market corporate loans from the START programme. The last START transaction closed in September 2015 (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
....... News 20 October 2020
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Made in the USA
Speakers at SCI conference herald dawn of new era for US CRT
"Every year I join these conferences and I say 'This is the year of the USA,' and I'm always made a liar because I'm still waiting for it, but this year we'll see real uptick in activity in the US and I expect this will continue," said Jessica Littlewood, a partner at Clifford Chance in London, specialising in credit .......
News 16 October 2020
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SME CRT completed
Intesa finalises mezz guarantee
Intesa Sanpaolo, the EIF and the EIB have completed a €90m mezzanine guarantee that references a €1.8bn static Italian SME portfolio. Dubbed GARC SME 9, the capital relief trade will enable the bank to provide €450m of loans to Italian SMEs and midcaps in regions negatively impacted by the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to Intesa: “The transaction .......
News 15 October 2020
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Compromise pending
Parliament softens stance on 'problematic' proposals
The European Parliament will likely drop proposals for the exclusion of time calls and pro-rata amortisation from STS synthetic securitisations (SCI 6 October). The Parliament’s amendments were announced last week in response to the European Commission’s ‘quick fix’ framework (SCI 31 July). Compromise solutions are pending, with one potential option being time calls subject to regulatory approvals.
According .......
News Analysis 15 October 2020
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First EGF guarantee inked
Sector developments and company hires
First EGF guarantee inked
Market Moves 14 October 2020
The EIB has approved €5.1bn of new financing to support investment by companies most impacted by Covid-19, alongside backing clean energy, water, sustainable transport and urban development. This includes up to €2.66bn of support – comprising €1bn of EIB-linked risk-sharing products and €1.66bn EIF guarantee and equity products - backed by the new European Guarantee Fund, .......
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Risk transfer round-up - 12 October
CRT sector developments and deal news
Barclays is rumoured to be prepping a corporate capital relief trade that is set to close in 4Q20. The lender finalised its last corporate CRT from the Colonnade programme in June (see SCI’s capital relief trades database).
....... News 12 October 2020
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Growth opportunities
Chapter five of SCI's Autumn 2020 CRT Research Report
The fifth and final chapter of SCI’s Autumn 2020 Capital Relief Trades Research Report outlines the need for sensible significant risk transfer rules and the growth opportunities for the synthetic securitisation market once these are achieved. This section of the report consists of interviews with representatives from Integer Advisors, PCS and PGGM.
The future seems bright for synthetic ......
News Analysis 9 October 2020Premium Content
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Finnish lift off
Latest KIMI deal completed
Santander has completed a €650m full-stack significant risk transfer trade backed by Finnish auto loans. Dubbed KIMI 9, the transaction differs from previous post-Covid full-stack SRTs in that the first loss tranche was not preplaced or privately placed before the deal’s announcement.
Santander notes that given the track record of the KIMI programme, the firm was confident that .......
News 8 October 2020
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Transatlantic challenges
Contributed thought leadership by Mayer Brown
Complying with EU and US CRT rules simultaneously
A number of law firms have developed excellent synthetic securitisation practices in Europe, but few firms are at the forefront of developing synthetic securitisation in the US, and even fewer have a practice which can navigate EU and US synthetic securitisation rules at the same time. Mayer Brown stands out as the .......
Talking Point 8 October 2020
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Stepping up
Chapter four of SCI's Autumn 2020 CRT Research Report
The fourth chapter of SCI’s Autumn 2020 Capital Relief Trades Research Report highlights the role of the EIF in supporting European SMEs via synthetic securitisation and guarantees. This section of the report covers the EIF’s Covid-19 support measures, as well as its efforts to promote new lending and catalyse private capital across the European SME sector. For further information ......
News Analysis 8 October 2020Premium Content
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Absolute attraction
Absolute 2021-1 shows growth of US CRT market and pass-through appetite
The sale of Absolute 2021-1‘s pass-throughs - the $184.8m repack of two CLNs from Goldman Sachs which closed on September 25 - represents further evidence that investor appetite for higher yielding repackaged pass-through securities is growing.
An S&P analyst who worked on the rating of the deal confirmed that the CLNs were reconfigured as a repack to suit investor needs, but .......
News 7 October 2020
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Seeking clarity
Chapter three of SCI's Autumn 2020 CRT Research Report
The third chapter of SCI’s Autumn 2020 Capital Relief Trades Research Report examines the impact of payment holidays on the SME significant risk transfer sector, as well as concerns over performance and data availability, and the emergence of multi-bank portfolios. This section of the report comprises interviews with representatives from Chorus Capital, the EIF, Integer Advisors, Intesa Sanpaolo, Latham & ......
News Analysis 7 October 2020Premium Content
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'Quick fix' draft legislation published
Sector developments and company hires
‘Quick fix’ draft legislation published
The European Parliament has published draft legislative resolutions on amendments to the Securitisation Regulation and CRR in connection with STS synthetics and non-performing exposures.Among the proposals is a tightening of the definition of an NPE securitisation and the introduction of stricter language on risk retention, according to Rabobank credit analysts. The regulatory treatment .......
Market Moves 6 October 2020
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SRT for the real economy
Chapter two of SCI's Autumn 2020 CRT Research Report
The second chapter of SCI’s Autumn 2020 Capital Relief Trades Research Report explores how significant risk transfer can drive economic growth, supported by the recent High Level Forum recommendations, the European Commission’s Covid-19 recovery package and the STS synthetics framework. This section of the report comprises interviews with representatives from AFME, the High Level Forum, Intesa Sanpaolo, PCS and Santander.
News Analysis 6 October 2020
Premium Content
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Synthetics seminar line-up finalised
Fireside chat, CRT workshop on the agenda
The line-up for SCI’s 4th Annual Risk Transfer & Synthetics Seminar has been finalised. Hosted virtually on 7 and 8 October, highlights of the event include a fireside chat between Clifford Chance’s Timothy Cleary and Christofferson Robb & Co’s Richard Robb, as well as a Mark Fontanilla & Co workshop on the US credit risk transfer market.
A market overview .......
News 6 October 2020
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Range of moratoria take-up 'stark'
Sector developments and company hires
Range of moratoria take-up ‘stark’
Market Moves 5 October 2020
With payment holiday concentrations having fallen over the past few remittance periods, the range of payment holiday take-up across UK RMBS is stark, according to JPMorgan’s latest Covid-19 Payment Holiday Tracker. Reflecting data reported primarily through September and August, the report identifies zero percent (in the case of the MORTI 2020-1 deal) and 0.6% (TWIN .......