Doctor Doom and the Doom of Tomorrow
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Asset Backed Securities
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Since that first encounter the market has remained a core financing option for banks’ consumer and corporate lending books, but there has always been a degree of innovation around the fringes.
ABS: 2018 So Far and What To Expect
Now that the summer lull has finally kicked in, it seems an ideal time to review the ABS market so far this year and try to make a prediction for the remainder of 2018.
Welcome Diversity
In the past two years the diversity of supply in the ABS market has been restricted by the availability of cheaper funding alternatives, both in the Eurozone through the TLTRO and in the UK, where the BoE Term Funding Scheme has suppressed issuance from the traditional banks and building societies.
Summer Supply Creates Pricing Opportunity
It’s been an interesting week for European CLOs; one of our favourite picks in fixed income.
Resurrection Of A Market
The last ten year period has seen supply from various parts of the ABS market ebb and flow.
Capital Relief Becoming More Interesting For Banks
For many years ABS has primarily been used as a funding tool for banks and other lenders.
Do You Remember ABS Market Volatility?
It seems a long time since the European ABS market saw any meaningful volatility.
Cautious Optimism in ABS
Nearly 4,000 international ABS market participants attended the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s Global ABS Conference last week, the biggest attendance since the financial crisis.
ABS Risk Tiering
European ABS market performance and volatility have been remarkably stable since 2016, largely weathering broader credit weaknesses so far this year.
STS Revisions Fall Short of Game-changing
Last year we wrote about the forthcoming "STS" (Simple, Transparent and Standardised) regulation for securitisation, designed in part to harmonise eligibility and capital charges for ABS across the wider regulatory landscape.
Roll Down explained
Several times this year we have discussed the benefits of “roll down” in an environment that for fixed income investing is particularly unfriendly. We believe roll down gains will be one of the best ways to protect portfolios in 2018 from the rising rate curves that we have been experiencing so far.