Issue 271 - 8th February
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News Analysis
- Structured Finance
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Glass ceiling?
Acceptance of lower-rated securities, different criteria to broaden
Sovereign rating ceilings - once a consideration only for emerging market credit structures - began to matter last year for the first time in European ABS. Given the consequent difficulty of securing a triple-A rating for many iss...
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News
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SCI Start the Week - 6 February
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
Pipeline Principal Residential Investment Mortgages 1, a €178.6m RMBS, entered the pipeline last week. It was joined by Rhode Island Student Loan Authority 2012A, a US$17.94m student loan ABS. Credit Suisse Asset Management's latest CLO, M...
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- CDS
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Sustained CDS index rally expected
CDS indices experienced a strong rally during the first month of the year, with credit investors adding risk on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, the CDS-cash basis turned significantly more negative in January, as CDS outperformed the cash market....
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- CLOs
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CLO 'risk-off' trade evident in TRACE data
The latest Wells Fargo Structured Products Monthly examines TRACE trade data for the structured credit sector from mid-August 2011 onwards. US CLO analysts at the bank find that, thus far, the data largely matches conventional wisdom espoused by CLO...
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Recession threat highlights Euro CLO concentration
The threat of a new recession in Europe has highlighted that the performance of a few issuers could have negative repercussions for the entire European CLO universe, according to Moody's in its latest CLO Interest publication. Having studied the broa...
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- CMBS
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More large liquidations predicted
An increase in dispositions of larger CMBS loans in the coming months would not be a surprise, according to Citi securitised products analysts. They argue that there are three drivers behind such an expectation. First, while special servicers may c...
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Alliance SAFD-PJ plan surprises to the upside
The latest documents released as part of PJ Alliance's bankruptcy filing reveal a new reorganisation plan, which is expected to be reflected in a modification of the US$475m Alliance SAFD-PJ portfolio loan securitised in CSMC 2007-C2. Although conces...
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Eddystone non-call waterfall questioned
Sainsbury's has disclosed that it may not redeem the Eddystone Finance CMBS on its April 2013 step-up date. How principal will be allocated to the notes post non-call remains unclear, however. European CMBS strategists at Barclays Capital believe t...
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- Structured Finance
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Job Swaps
- Structured Finance
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Credit vet founds new firm
Sal Naro has formed New York-based Coherence Capital Partners, an asset management company specialis...
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Ex-Mallesons lawyers move on
Johnson Winter & Slattery has poached a pair of structured finance lawyers. Craig Wappett an...
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Law firm expands Perth practice
Allens Arthur Robinson is expanding its Perth finance practice by transferring Ben Farnsworth from S...
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Coherence Capital unveiled
Further details have emerged about Coherence Capital Partners, the asset management firm formed by e...
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Bank makes senior appointments
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank has promoted Frederic Truchot and Stephane Publie to h...
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Consultancy opens office in Asia
GreySpark Partners has opened a new office in Hong Kong to support its APAC clients. The new office...
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- CDS
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French derivatives association formed
A new association of French valuation providers has been formed. The association professionnelle des...
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- CLOs
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GSC Group hearing due
The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved Black Diamond Capital Man...
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- CMBS
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Real estate vet joins advisory
Robin Priest has joined Alvarez & Marsal Real Estate Advisory Services in London as a senior...
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- Risk Management
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Risk management tool use extended
Bureau van Dijk (BvD) has incorporated Fitch Solutions' Bank Credit Model into its Bankscope databas...
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- RMBS
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NY AG files MERS suit
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a lawsuit against Bank of America, JPMorgan Ch...
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- Structured Finance
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News Round-up
- ABS
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Stable outlook for utility tariff bonds
Fitch is maintaining a stable rating outlook for US utility tariff bonds in 2012, despite potential...
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Enterprise sale boosts Unique bonds
Enterprise Inns has sold 15 pubs, located across the west and south east of England, for £2...
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FFELP SLABS ratings lowered
S&P has lowered its ratings on 87 classes of bonds from 29 FFELP student loan ABS transactio...
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Embarcadero Re closes
The second catastrophe bond from the California Earthquake Authority's (CEA) Embarcadero Re programm...
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Kibou doubles up
The Japanese earthquake catastrophe bond Kibou has closed at twice the originally envisaged size. Th...
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- Structured Finance
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SF driving tri-party repo appetite
Risk appetite in the US tri-party repo market is returning, reflected in a rise in riskier forms of...
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Negative outlook for sovereign-linked SF
Fitch has revised its outlook on 253 tranches of Spanish and Italian structured finance transactions...
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FOF seeks distressed opportunities
Legg Mason Global Asset Management has launched Permal Hedge Strategies Fund, a fixed income-focused...
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- CDO
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Dante CDO resolution progressing?
Lehman Brothers Australia (LBA) has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy...
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CDO auction re-attempted
An auction is being held to liquidate the Duke Funding High Grade I CDO, almost a year after a previ...
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- CDS
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Kodak auction scheduled
The auction to settle the credit derivative trades for Eastman Kodak Company CDS is to be held on 22...
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NRAM CDS settle above par
The Northern Rock (Asset Management) CDS auction yesterday resulted in the first-ever credit event s...
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Global CDS liquidity spikes
Fitch Solutions reports that - as of last Friday's market close - average global...
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Sovereign CDS 'still useful'
Fitch's latest quarterly European fixed income investor survey, representing the views of managers o...
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- CLOs
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Updated CLO methodology released
DBRS has released its updated global methodology to rate and monitor CLOs and CDOs backed by non-gra...
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Trio of CLO prints point to tighter spreads
Goldman Sachs priced the US$430m Ares XXIII CLO for Ares Management on Friday, the third CLO to prin...
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- CMBS
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DB UK CMBS announced
Deutsche Bank's latest UK CMBS - the £210m DECO 2012-MHILL - has hit th...
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Kamakura moves into CRE risk
Kamakura Corporation is set to launch a suite of commercial real estate default probability models b...
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Multifamily rebounding
Fitch reports that multifamily, along with hotels, has shown the best performance rebound in the US...
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Delinquency rate stays rangebound
Last month the Trepp delinquency rate for US CRE loans in CMBS continued to hover within a narrow ba...
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CMBS loan liquidations spike again
The volume of CMBS conduit loans liquidated in January spiked sharply, jumping 51% from December's r...
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Shift to workouts expected to continue
Fitch expects the shift towards putting loans backing European CMBS into workout, rather than granti...
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- RMBS
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Euro RMBS on review
S&P has placed on credit watch negative its credit ratings on 122 tranches in 43 European RM...
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Ex-Credit Suisse bankers charged with fraud
The US SEC has charged four former Credit Suisse investment bankers for engaging in a complex scheme...
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Refi plan fleshed out
President Obama has provided more detail on his plan to help spur mortgage refinancing, following la...
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Surprise Dutch RMBS tender announced
Lloyds has announced an unexpected tender offer for the Candide 2005 class A, Candide 2006 A2 and Ca...
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Robust trading flows seen in non-agency RMBS
The did-not-trade ratio for US non-agency RMBS bid-lists last week was one of the lowest seen in a l...
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Italian mortgage performance analysed
In a new special report, Moody's demonstrates that Italian mortgage loans most likely to default are...
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- ABS
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