Issue 359 - 23rd October
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News Analysis
- Risk Management
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SEF differentiation
Execution protocols, product offerings discussed
Seventeen SEFs were granted CFTC registration by the 2 October go-live date. Liquidity is eventually expected to aggregate around a handful of these platforms, while the others carve out niches in specialist product areas. Given that each SEF has its...
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- Risk Management
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Market Reports
- CLOs
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Compression continues for Euro CLOs
It has been a fairly eventful week for the European CLO market, with BWICs providing solid secondary supply. One mid-week list, in particular, captured the attention of traders. "The BWICs have been steady and there was one on Wednesday from a cont...
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Awaited BWIC hits Euro CLO market
As expected, the focus of the European CLO market yesterday was on a large US credit hedge fund bid-list (SCI 18 October). Mezzanine paper accounted for the bulk of the supply, with several successful covers observed, but also a few DNTs. The highe...
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- RMBS
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ARM, subprime names circulating
US non-agency RMBS BWIC volume picked up yesterday to reach around US$560m, with a focus on ARM and subprime bonds. Bid-side levels appear to be firming across the ARM sector, with POAs up by two points and hybrids up by a point. One noteworthy nam...
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- CLOs
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News
- ABS
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Pubco swap offer 'credit positive'
Spirit has made an offer to tender and swap its existing A1 and A3 bonds into newly-issued A6 and A7 bonds. The tender and swap offer is for up to 50% of the A1 bonds and 70% of the A3s, with the remainder left outstanding and amortising in line with...
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- Structured Finance
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SCI Start the Week - 21 October
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
Pipeline More deals joined the pipeline last week, with each of the asset classes represented. Four new ABS were announced, as well as one ILS, one RMBS, one CMBS and three CLOs. The ABS entrants comprise: €20m Auto ABS German Lease Mast...
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- CMBS
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Theatre restructurings on the cards
The main obstacle to a restructuring of the Theatre (Hospitals) No. 1 and No. 2 CMBS appears to have been removed. A short-term extension to 15 January 2014 has been agreed to by 50.1% of the class A noteholders in both transactions, to enable ongoin...
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Change afoot for Freddie K-series
Losses on even the most recent Freddie Mac K-series CMBS notes are expected to be low, despite signs of weakening underwriting quality. There are also signs that issuance for the sector may have peaked in 2Q13, with higher rates and the FHFA mandate...
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- ABS
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Job Swaps
- Structured Finance
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KKR looks to buy Euro credit manager
KKR is set to acquire Avoca Capital. Avoca ceo Alan Burke will lead KKR's European credit platform a...
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Risk-linked securities expert appointed
Capital markets specialist Brandon Young has been appointed as svp of Southport Lane and as...
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- CDO
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SEC says Octans CDO investors 'misled'
The US SEC has charged Harding Advisory and its owner Wing Chau for misleading investors in a CDO an...
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- CDS
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JPM pays penalty for CDX sales
The US CFTC has issued an order against JPMorgan Chase, bringing and settling charges for employing...
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- CLOs
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Investment bank adds CLO vet
Canaccord Genuity has appointed Sam Spackman as a CLO trader, further boosting its structured financ...
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- Risk Management
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RMBS vet appointed risk solutions director
RiskSpan has named Don Brown as director of risk solutions. He has more than twenty years of trading...
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- RMBS
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Nevada subprime settlement negotiated
DB Structured Products will pay the state of Nevada US$11.5m as part of an agreement to resolve an i...
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- Structured Finance
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News Round-up
- Structured Finance
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SF liquidity issues discussed
Ahead of the eleventh-hour deal to raise the US debt ceiling, DBRS examined how outstanding structur...
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US fundamentals index launched
Fitch has launched the Fitch Fundamentals Index (FFI) to track changes in the strength of the US eco...
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RWN placements follow US rating action
Fitch says it expects to take limited rating actions on US CMBS transactions as a result of its plac...
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SME risk-sharing instruments discussed
In preparation for next week's European Council meeting, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Counc...
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Credit funds set for largest post-crisis inflow
With concerns of a significant near-term taper by the US Fed removed, investors allocated the most t...
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Credit bureau move panned
The South African government last month approved the removal of adverse credit information from the...
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APAC upgrades outweigh downgrades
Upgrades (accounting for 3.7% of total rating actions) outnumbered downgrades (1.8%) across Fitch-ra...
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CPT covered bonds gain traction
S&P says that the conditional pass-through (CPT) variation on NIBC Bank's recent covered bon...
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Total return fund minted
BlueBay Asset Management has launched the BlueBay Total Return Credit Fund. The fund provides divers...
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- CDS
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Credit market changes to boost liquidity
US institutional fixed income investors struggling with recent reductions in credit market liquidity...
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Event-driven fund launches
Channel Capital Advisors has launched a high yield catalyst fund, investing in CDS, liquid bonds and...
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- CLOs
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Rapid deleveraging seen in Euro CLOs
European leveraged-loan CLOs are deleveraging more rapidly than might be expected after their reinve...
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Retention rules to increase balance sheet risk
CLO risk retention rules enacted in Europe and proposed in the US could increase balance sheet lever...
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CLO pricing webinar scheduled
SCI, in association with Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL), is hosting a webinar on CLO pricing met...
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- CMBS
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CMBS recovery rates examined
A new Moody's analysis suggests that the shorter the time a US CMBS loan is in special servicing, th...
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CMBS liquidations drop
US CMBS loan liquidations totaled US$870m in September, relative to the 12-month moving average of U...
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CMBS write-offs examined
Trepp has published an analysis examining how much written-off US CMBS bonds received on average in...
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Cap rate impact examined
With the bulk of US legacy CRE loans approaching their maturity dates, liquidity, capitalisation rat...
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- Risk Management
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Cleared bunched trade executed
Bloomberg SEF has completed what is believed to be the first-ever cleared bunched derivative trade....
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Market data offering extended
SuperDerivatives has extended its market data offering with the launch of DGX Direct, a real-time da...
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- RMBS
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SAFT 2013-2 shelved
Shellpoint Partners has scrapped its planned Shellpoint Asset Funding Trust 2013-2 RMBS in favour of...
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Liquidation timelines continue to extend
Liquidation timelines continue to extend for distressed US RMBS loans, according to Fitch. The agenc...
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Back-up servicer concentration risk highlighted
The growth of UK RMBS third-party servicer back-up servicing portfolios reflects awareness of the ex...
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Pomona eminent domain decision awaited
Further details have emerged about Pomona, California's eminent domain proposal. The plan is the sam...
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Revised Mexican reform bill welcomed
Mexico's Lower House of Congress has passed the fiscal reform bill proposed by President Enrique Pe&...
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Greek repurchases 'artificially stabilising' arrears
Sponsor bank repurchases of mortgage loans from Greek RMBS deals are reaching high levels, totalling...
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CCMA insufficient to solve Irish distress?
A recent survey conducted by Moody's shows that Irish RMBS originators have welcomed the revised Iri...
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Russian mortgage proposal welcomed
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development recently proposed several amendments to certain article...
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- Structured Finance
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