RMBS

  • Hedge fund liquidated amid accounting probe

    Sector developments and company hires

    Hedge fund liquidated amid accounting probe
    TCA Fund Management Group is liquidating its main credit hedge fund, TCA Global Credit Master Fund, after the fund received redemption and withdrawal requests in excess of available cash. The redemptions come amid a US SEC probe into the firm’s accounting practices. According to whistleblowers, the firm has US$300m in assets - not US$500m - .......

    Market Moves 27 January 2020

  • Chinese reference centre upgrade 'credit positive'

    Sector developments and company hires

    Credit system upgraded
    The People's Bank of China’s Credit Reference Center last week upgraded its credit information system to record and provide more comprehensive credit information on individuals and enterprises. The upgraded system can lead to better measurement and understanding of risk by lenders, which is credit positive for the asset quality of their loan books and any securitisations that .......

    Market Moves 23 January 2020

  • Long road ahead

    Climate change management in US RMBS slow to appear

    Awareness is growing of the need to factor the effects of climate into securitisation around the world. US RMBS is one sector that could be hit harder sooner, but even there progress is slow.

    “Talk around climate change in the context of finance is inescapable these days - whether it’s Blackrock’s recent announcement that it is now a .......

    News Analysis 23 January 2020

  • Bespoke service

    Emma-Jane Fulcher, founder of Grovewood Capital Consultancy, answers SCI's questions

    Q: How and when did Grovewood Capital Consultancy become involved in the securitisation market?
    A: I founded Grovewood Capital Consultancy at the end of last year (SCI 23 December 2019). In my previous role as head of structured finance at ARC Ratings, more and more clients were asking for structuring advice during the ratings process – which, of course, .......

    Provider Profile 23 January 2020

  • Pooling proposals rebuffed

    Call for GSE seller/servicer performance standards

    Eight trade associations, including the American Bankers Association and SIFMA, have written to FHFA director Mark Calabria responding to the recent request for input (RFI) on UMBS pooling (SCI 17 December 2019). The letter states that while the FHFA’s “well-intentioned effort” to address liquidity and other concerns in the UMBS market is appreciated, the RFI includes proposals that .......

    News 22 January 2020

  • DSB wind-down begins

    Dutch bank to exercise first ABS call option and aims for more

    Bankrupt DSB Bank is preparing for the possible sale of its loan portfolio by winding down its securitisation programmes. The Dutch bank is beginning with consumer ABS Chapel 2003-1 before hoping to move on to its other four outstanding ABS and RMBS deals.

    DSB says it has informed the issuer that it will repurchase Chapel 2003’s loan portfolio .......

    News 21 January 2020

  • 'No Data' threshold consultation underway

    Sector developments and company hires

    C-PACE partnership
    Eyzenberg & Company and Greenworks Lending have formed Eyzenberg Green Capital, a partnership dedicated to funding commercial real estate transactions through commercial PACE. Eyzenberg Green Capital is a direct balance sheet provider, with significant lending capacity. The aim is to achieve a low cost of capital for C-PACE financing, supported by permanent capital and multiple funding outlets.

    Market Moves 17 January 2020

  • FFELP transition legislation mooted

    Sector developments and company hires

    Call for FFELP solution
    The SFA has joined the Education Finance Council (EFC) in calling for wholesale legislation to smoothly transition FFELP student loans and the related subsidy away from Libor, to avoid potential disruption to over US$277bn of loans spread across 13 million borrowers. The EFC is working on a legislative solution that would transition the subsidy - called .......

    Market Moves 16 January 2020

  • Aircraft equity investment disclosed

    Sector developments and company hires

    Aircraft equity investment
    Floreat has disclosed that it invested US$25m in the equity certificates of Air Lease Corporation’s recent Thunderbolt III aircraft ABS. The securitisation is secured by a portfolio of 19 commercial aircraft on operating lease to 18 airlines in 15 countries. The airlines are diversified globally and over half are national flag carriers, including Vueling, Air France, China Airlines .......

    Market Moves 15 January 2020

  • Hong Kong ABS recommendations released

    Sector developments and company hires

    Alternative risk transfer
    Arthur J Gallagher has increased its interest in Capsicum Reinsurance Brokers from 33% to 100%. Capsicum Re launched in December 2013 through a strategic partnership with Gallagher. There are no management changes as a result of the deal.

    Gilles Dellaert, former co-president and cio of Global Atlantic, has been appointed global head of Blackstone Insurance Solutions .......

    Market Moves 14 January 2020

  • Landmark quake bond closed

    Sector developments and company hires

    DLT legal analysis published
    ISDA, Clifford Chance, R3 and the Singapore Academy of Law have published a new whitepaper that provides analysis on the legal issues relating to the use of smart derivatives contracts on distributed ledger technology (DLT). Given the inherent uncertainty about where data, assets and even counterparties are located in a DLT environment, a key question is how .......

    Market Moves 13 January 2020

  • Real assets partnership inked

    Sector developments and company hires

    BWIC platform
    CLO auction technology platform KopenTech has launched its online BWIC service, which aims to streamline the BWIC process for both buyers and sellers. The first live BWIC was conducted on the platform in late December.

    EMEA
    Floreat has appointed Phil Griffiths as md within Floreat Aviation Capital, its specialist aircraft leasing investment arm. Griffiths has closed over US$10bn in aircraft .......

    Market Moves 8 January 2020

  • THEAT 2007-1 and 2007-2 set to repay

    Sector developments and company hires

    Asia Pacific
    ISDA has appointed Su Yen Chia as its new head of Asia-Pacific public policy. Chia previously served as alternate chief executive for Euroclear Bank (Hong Kong branch) from June 2017. In this role, she played an integral part in developing policy positions and interacting with regulatory and government authorities across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to Euroclear, Chia was head .......

    Market Moves 7 January 2020

  • 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

  • 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

  • Year-end melee

    UMBS pooling proposal under scrutiny

    US securitisation market participants are having to address a melee of important issues ahead of year-end. The one that appears to be causing the most ire, however, is the FHFA’s recent request for input (RFI) regarding GSE pooling practices for the formation of TBA-eligible UMBS (SCI 5 November).

    “There are many issues that the market is having to deal .......

    News 17 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

  • Economic efficiency

    Standardised bank SRT pros, cons weighed

    Various factors should be considered when contemplating whether to execute a significant risk transfer transaction, especially from a standardised bank perspective. The key is to choose the most economically efficient portfolio and the rest is optimisation, according to SCI’s inaugural CRT Research Report.

    Steve Gandy, md and head of private debt mobilisation, notes and structuring at Santander Corporate and .......

    News Analysis 16 December 2019

  • Mixed motivations

    THRP sets stage for US bank CRT

    A combination of macro and micro factors are understood to have influenced the issuance of JPMorgan’s recent Chase 2019-CL1 synthetic RMBS (SCI 10 October). Notably, the US Treasury’s aim of harmonising regulatory frameworks across the mortgage market – as outlined in its Housing Reform Plan (SCI 6 September) – arguably helped create the right conditions for the bank .......

    News 13 December 2019

  • Sticking with the programme

    ABSPP hits new high, but total volumes remain low

    Latest figures from the ECB show that its ABSPP holdings are at an all-time high. However, the programme remains far from the market moving purchaser it was once expected to be.

    Bank of America European structured finance analysts report that ECB net purchases under the ABSPP in October and November were €1.16bn and €1.266bn respectively, representing the highest monthly net .......

    News 12 December 2019
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