ABS

ABS or asset-backed securities are bonds or notes created via securitisation that are backed by a range of assets or receivables. Generically, all securitisations can be labelled ABS and it is often used as a coverall term; in some cases in SCI, ABS will be used in this manner. However, in many cases, ABS are taken to exclude mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and structured credit instruments, such as CDOs. If so, then asset-backed securities or ABS are taken to include consumer ABS, such as credit card securitisations, auto loan or dealer floorplan ABS, student loan securitisations, project finance/infrastructure securitisations and equipment leasing-based transactions. ABS originators are typically loan issuers, such as banks, credit card companies, auto finance and consumer finance firms, but can be any institution that generates regular, quantifiable future income flows (or cashflows), which includes governments. To create asset-backed securities, institutions sell pools of their loans to a special-purpose vehicle, or SPV, which then sells the loans to a trust. The trust then repackages the loans as interest-bearing securities and issues them. This true sale of the loans to the SPV ensures that the ABS is treated as being bankruptcy-remote from the originator.

• Swiss auto ABS taps Euro appetite

  BMW has priced its first public securitisation of Swiss auto lease receivables to feature a euro-den...

  News    18 July 2017

• Synthetic expected loss approach outlined

  Scope has published research that offers a technical illustration of how the expected loss framework...

  News    18 July 2017

• SCI Start the Week - 17 July

  A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days.

  Pipeline Pipeline activity stepped up again last week. The additions consisted of eight ABS, an I...

  News    17 July 2017

• Job swaps round-up - 14 July

  North America Mortgage Capital Trading has hired Bill Berliner to the newly created role of direct...

  Job Swaps    14 July 2017

• Inaugural NPL ABS launched

  Credit Valtellinese and Credit Siciliano have tapped the market with their first Italian non-perform...

  News    14 July 2017

• Servicer consolidation boosts NPL recoveries

  The Italian servicing industry is experiencing a strong growth trend. Italian non-performing loan re...

  News Analysis    13 July 2017

• Generali launches cat bond first

  GC Securities has priced the first 144A catastrophe bond that provides indemnity protection against...

  News    13 July 2017

• Final STS document welcomed

  The European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee yesterday approved, as expected, t...

  News Analysis    12 July 2017

• SCI Start the Week - 10 July

  A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days

  Pipeline Pipeline activity picked up a little last week, but remained fairly muted. Additions con...

  News    10 July 2017

• Attica deal unlikely to be replicated

  Greek bank Attica has announced a securitisation of €1.3bn of non-performing loans. Althou...

  News    7 July 2017

• Job swaps round-up - 7 July

  North America Mayer Brown has hired Jay Kallas as counsel in its Chicago office, focusing on struc...

  Job Swaps    7 July 2017

• ESBies unlikely to boost ABS

  The securitisation market is unlikely to see any benefit from the issuance of European safe bonds (S...

  News Analysis    7 July 2017

• Risk transfer round-up - 7 July

  The second quarter appears to have been a quiet period in the risk transfer market, with only two ca...

  News    7 July 2017

• Short-term STC consultation underway

  The Basel Committee and IOSCO have released consultative documents outlining criteria for identifyin...

  News    7 July 2017

• Carige NPL deal unveiled

  Banca Carige has launched its keenly-anticipated non-performing loan securitisation (SCI 1 March). D...

  News    6 July 2017

• Atlante II role confirmed in MPS deal

  The European Commission has approved a €5.4bn precautionary recapitalisation of Monte dei...

  News    5 July 2017

• Retail woes could hit card ABS

  Store closures across the US are expected to negatively impact credit card ABS trusts, due to their...

  News    4 July 2017

• SCI Start the Week - 3 July

  A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days

  PipelineOnly a handful of transactions remained in the pipeline last week. Of these, RMBS accounted...

  News    3 July 2017

• IBRD debuts pandemic cat bonds

  The World Bank has launched US$320m pandemic catastrophe bonds, with the aim of providing financial...

  News    30 June 2017

• Risk transfer round-up - 30 June

  The EIF has recently signed guarantees with five banks in Romania under its SME initiative (SCI 12 M...

  News    30 June 2017

• EV idiosyncratic risks highlighted

  The inclusion of electric vehicles (EVs) in future European auto ABS collateral pools could introduc...

  News    29 June 2017