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Issue 998 - 10th April

  • News Analysis

    • ABS

      • SCI webinar: Data centre issuance accelerates, but concerns about power remain

        Deal sizes grow larger, with US$8bn in public data centre ABS during Q1

        Public data centre ABS issuance is already heading to record-breaking levels this year, with Q1 figures alone hitting around US$8bn. Full-year projections are set to reach US$37bn, which would be over double 2025's US$18bn. This growth was a key them...

    • Asset-Backed Finance

      • Specialist lenders ride a wave of healthcare financing momentum

        A niche corner in ABF is finding its moment

        Two deals totalling more than US$430m have landed in quick succession in healthcare finance, marking a strong momentum for the sector, and a group of specialist lenders is increasingly well placed to meet that demand. Zymeworks, a Vancouver-based b...

  • SRT Market Update

    • Capital Relief Trades

      • Japanese mid-sized banks explore first SRTs

        SRT market update

        Japan’s SRT market could be entering its next phase, with mid-sized lenders now understood to be exploring the product, SCI has learned. Sources say some of the country’s megabanks are expected to play a key role in supporting t...

  • News

    • Asset-Backed Finance

      • PAG hires KKR veteran for European buildout

        Douglas Watt joins the APAC specialist as global co-head of sales

        PAG has hired KKR veteran Douglas Watt as its new global co-head of sales, SCI has learned. London-based Watt is due to start in the summer and will oversee sales across PAG’s three core verticals - credit, private equity and real estate...

      • OIC closes infrastructure credit fund 43% above target

        New York-based manager raises US$1.58bn for Fund IV

        OIC has closed its fourth private credit fund at US$1.58bn, exceeding its US$1.1bn target and marking the New York manager's largest fundraise. The fund is already more than 30% deployed across five seed investments, spanning LNG logistics, port in...

      • Northleaf ABF veteran departs

        CJ Wei to exit the alternatives manager after seven years

        Northleaf Capital Partners veteran CJ Wei has departed the firm after seven years. New York-based Wei has exited the alternatives-focused manager where he served as md and portfolio manager focused on scaling its asset-backed finance platform. Hi...

      • ABF Deal Digest: Dubai Aerospace, BXCI launch aircraft leasing partnership

        A weekly roundup of private asset-backed financing activity

        This week’s roundup of private ABF activity sees Dubai Aerospace Enterprise and Blackstone Credit & Insurance launch a new aircraft leasing partnership. Meanwhile, Conduit Power and Eldridge have announced the closing of a US$200m e...

    • Capital Relief Trades

      • New clean-up call rules to help US SRT

        B3E redux boosts market with clean-up calls and p factor

        The reworked Basel Three Endgame (B3E) rules, released at the end of last month, represent the gift that keeps giving: in addition to reduced capital requirements, the new framework also relaxes the terms under which a bank is permitted to exit an SR...

      • EU securitisation reform hinges on calibration

        Calibration choices in EU securitisation increasingly seen as central to financing and risk transfer...

        Securitisation reform is increasingly being framed as a strategic tool for supporting the financing of the EU economy, with questions around calibration and risk transfer capacity coming into sharper focus. Speaking at the Belgian Financial Forum l...

    • CLOs

      • T. Rowe Price makes US CLO market debut

        T. Rowe Price manages $1.80 trillion in client assets as of February 28, 2026

        Global investment management firm T.Rowe Price has entered the CLO market with the issuance of ROWE CLO 2026-1, a US$403.59m CLO backed primarily by broadly syndicated first-lien loans. Wells Fargo Securities served as arranger, placement...

  • Talking Point

    • Capital Relief Trades

      • Balancing SRT regulatory safeguards and market innovation - part two

        In the second instalment of a two-part primer on the SRT market, Squire Patton Boggs lawyers explore...

        SRT transactions are a key capital management tool for financial institutions worldwide and their utilisation is set to grow as banks seek to optimise their balance sheets further and mitigate risk. However, the regulatory environment continues to ev...

  • Market Moves

    • ABS

      • Job swaps weekly: Law firms hoover up securitisation talent

        People moves and key promotions in securitisation

        Law firms in London and the US are beefing up their structured finance and securitisation practices with both new hires and promotions to key positions. Alston & Bird has added partners Steven Krivinskas and Marcus Lovatt to its structured...


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