The European Commission is proposing regulations to reduce buy-side reliance on ratings-agency ratings and require investors to instead internally rate their own cash and synthetic securitization ...

Having applied securitization to its vehicle insurance book last year via the innovative FCC Sparc deal, AXA now plans to offload mortality risk to the capital markets via a synthetic securitization ...

The EIB Group (European Investment Bank, EIB, and European Investment Fund, EIF) has signed its fourth synthetic securitization transaction with BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) since 2017. Similar to the three ...

European banks are enjoying higher subscription levels and lower pricing for significant risk transfer (SRT) trades this year. This is down to booming demand for capital-relief instruments from US ...

The EIB Group’s investment in the first securitization amounts to €600 million in the senior tranche, while in the synthetic securitization of mortgage loans, the EIF covers losses of the "upper ...

D.E. Shaw is raising its second fund in roughly 16 months to invest in the synthetic securitizations banks issue to manage their capital requirements, one of the hottest asset classes on Wall Street.

The value of banks’ synthetic securitizations has reached $673 billion, expanding at a double-digit pace as lenders race to offload risk and free up capital. The figure, the portion that banks retain ...

The African Development Bank (www.AFDB.org), the European Commission (http://EC.Europa.eu/growth/industry/innovation/funding/efsi_en), Mariner Investment Group (www ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seal. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finalized a rule Monday that would bar specific securitization participants ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finalized a rule Monday that would bar specific securitization participants from engaging in transactions involving or resulting in material conflicts of ...