securitisation
Credit risk
Credit derivatives are under scrutiny again, this time over the role they played in the current Greek debt crisis. Last month, French finance minister Christine Lagarde blamed speculators for contributing to the eurozone’s debt problems, and argued the sovereign credit default swap (CDS) market...
ASF 2010 conference: Investors reveal growing interest in securitisation
The annual conference for securitisation professionals moved from its usual home in Las Vegas to Washington DC this year, highlighting how the industry’s fortunes have become increasingly dependent...
Piecemeal approach to regulatory reform threatens to stall recovery of securitisation market
Early on in the financial crisis, the US authorities viewed fixing the securitisation market as critical to getting credit flowing through the economy again. But a plethora of regulatory changes could...
Padova Hanson leaves RBS for BarCap
Liz Padova Hanson has joined Barclays Capital as a managing director in the asset securitisation origination business for the Americas, based in New York.Hanson reports to Giuseppe Pagano, who oversees...
RBS hires Rajendra as head of ABS strategy
Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Ganesh Rajendra in the newly created position of head of asset- and mortgage-backed strategy for Europe and Asia. He will be based in London and report to David Simmonds...
AFME ESF appoints new chairman
Steve Gandy, head of securitisation at Santander, has been elected chairman of the London-based Association for Financial Markets in Europe/European Securitisation Forum (AFME/ESF). Mark Lewis, global...
ECB launches transparency initiative for European securitisation market
Aside from a flurry of public deals last autumn, the European securitisation market is a long way short of its buoyant pre-crisis state. In an effort to revive the sector, the European Central Bank...
Market Analysis: Retention charge for European securitisation
The upcoming retention charge for European securitisation is designed to align incentives more closely between market participants. Credit looks at the mechanics of the charge and consider its chances...
Michael Bolton: RMBS subject to scrutiny
The feeling from investors is that confidence in the securitisation market won’t return to pre-crisis levels until issuers provide loan-level data on new transactions. In the last quarter of...
Cat bond issue shows good prospects for 2010
The completion of two recent catastrophe bond deals shows issuance prospects for the market are promising in 2010, says Markus Schmutz, head of insurance-linked securities structuring and origination...
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