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• Data centres love securitisation

  Exploding US data centre development turns increasingly to structured finance

  Securitisation is becoming increasingly popular as the preferred route for financing of data centre development in the US, say market experts. Borrowers can raise as much and as quickly as in the traditional wholesale lending market, with investors...

• CLO double-Bs trade heavily as CIFC equity deal stands out

  Poh-Heng Tan from CLO Research Group highlights BWIC activity on selected discounted CLO double-Bs a...

  Last week saw active double-B tranche trading, with approximately 68 CLO double-B bonds totalling around US$220 million in notional listed on BWIC, of which 79% traded. Among US CLO deals with low MVOC metrics (101h to 102h) that have exited their...

• Spread pattern shifts studied

  SCI data sheds light on international ABS spread movements and risk appetite before and after Libera...

  The European and Australian ABS/MBS primary markets have seen notable shifts in volumes and pre-pricing spread behaviour, as investors momentarily pulled back from the sector, following President Trump’s 'Liberation Day' on 2 April. These c...

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• UK issuer targets Q3 and Q4

  SRT market update

  Having already closed three deals during 1H25 - across its large corporate and leveraged finance portfolios - NatWest is understood to be targeting up to three additional deals for Q3-Q4 (including a repeat of its capital call fa...

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• From gaps to growth: ABF's answer to SME lending's so-called valley of death

  Avellinia Capital co-founders and managing partners, Julian Schickel and Matthias Dux, answer SCI's ...

  Q: Avellinia Capital (AvCap) and the British Business Bank (BBB) recently announced a new partnership to provide capital solutions for fintech lenders. Can you walk us through how the partnership came about and how it aligns with your broader capital...

• Opening doors at Akin Gump

  Sarah Milam speaks to SCI about joining Akin Gump's capital solutions team

  Sarah Milam recently joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld as a partner in the firm's New York office, focusing on ABF, securitisation and structured finance. She joins from Dechert, where she spent seven years as a partner. Speaking with SCI...

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• Job swaps weekly: Ares snaps up new partner from AIMCo

  People moves and key promotions in securitisation

  This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Ares Management Corporation naming a new partner and co-head of its global capital solutions team. Elsewhere, Colliers’ investment management division Harrison Street Asset Mana...