A capital solution

Securitisation appears to offer clear regulatory capital benefits to owners of life insurance companies. Will other European banks follow Barclays' lead?

They could be a match made in heaven – life insurance companies and the financial engineering that is securitisation. Certainly, structured finance and asset-backed bankers have been touting the technology to insurers and their parent companies since the late 1990s, but few capital market transactions have emerged so far. The industry’s multi-billion-dollar balance sheets remain largely untouched by securitisation.

But with life insurance companies more desperate than ever to raise capital, that

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