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.

• NPL issuance surging

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  News Analysis    28 June 2018

• Securitisation to support PPP growth

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  News Analysis    26 June 2018

• SCI Start the Week - 25 June

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

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  News    25 June 2018

• PRA's tough stance continues

  Banks have been reviewing the PRA’s significant risk transfer (SRT) consultation, which pr...

  News Analysis    22 June 2018

• Mortgage SRT booster voted down

  MEP Caroline Nagtegaal’s amendment 596 to Article 234 of the CRR was rejected by the Europ...

  News Analysis    22 June 2018

• Risk transfer round-up - 22 June

  Intesa Sanpaolo is rumoured to be prepping a capital relief trade referencing corporate assets, with...

  News    22 June 2018

• Market moves - 22 June

  Europe Axa Investment Managers has hired Hans Stoter to global head of fixed income and interim he...

  Market moves    22 June 2018

• Questions remain over insurer participation

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  News Analysis    21 June 2018

• PE players driving growth

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  Talking Point    19 June 2018

• Capital computation

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  News Analysis    18 June 2018

• SCI Start the Week - 18 June

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

  Pipeline A mixed bag of securitisations remained in the pipeline at the end of last week. ABS once...

  News    18 June 2018

• IFRS 9 benefit welcomed

  The first-time adoption of IFRS 9 has had a muted impact on bank capital ratios and this has been re...

  News Analysis    15 June 2018

• Risk transfer round-up - 15 June

  Deutsche Bank is expected to execute two capital relief trades this month. One is a corporate deal f...

  News    15 June 2018

• CRI explained

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  Talking Point    15 June 2018

• Market moves - 15 June

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  Market moves    15 June 2018

• Creval completes second NPL deal

  Credito Valtellinese (Creval) has completed a €586.35m non-performing loan securitisation w...

  News    13 June 2018

• Bankruptcy law brings transparency

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  News    11 June 2018

• SCI Start the Week - 11 June

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

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  News    11 June 2018

• Market moves - 8 June

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  Market moves    8 June 2018

• UTP loans raise AI prospects

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  News    7 June 2018

• Start-up launches to solve structured product problems

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  Provider Profile    7 June 2018