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Following the start of development work on an accelerated procedure for the regulatory recognition of significant risk transfer ("SRT") securitisations last year, the European Central Bank ("ECB") published guidance addressed...more
Significant risk transfer transactions or SRTs are one of the fastest growing corners of the financial markets. In this update, the opening of the US market, increasing international regulatory scrutiny and updates to the UK...more
Matt Bisanz interviews Georges Duponcheele of MunichRe and William Perraudin of Risk Control Ltd. about their work in developing approaches to securitization capital requirements....more
The UK’s banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) has published a Discussion Paper (DP3/23) covering securitisation bank capital in the context of: (1) the Basel 3.1 output floor and capital requirements...more
Banking organizations looking to reduce the amount of risk-based regulatory capital required to support residential mortgage loan portfolios can use synthetic securitization to convert the capital treatment of their exposures...more
The updated Basel III framework is the principal response of the Basel Committee to the global financial crisis. The updated framework makes wide-ranging changes to the perceived shortcomings of the previous regime. Although...more
As discussed in our previous Clients and Friends Memo (the “First Update”), on 24 July 2020 the European Commission (the “Commission”) published proposed amendments to the current securitisation framework set out in...more
The EU has, on 6 November 2019, published in the Official Journal a delegated regulation (the “Delegated Regulation”) supplementing the EU Securitisation Regulation (the “Securitisation Regulation”) with regard to regulatory...more
Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 laying down a general framework for securitisation and creating a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation ("Regulation") came into force on 18 January 2018 and will...more
A continuation of the market trends from last year can be expected in 2018. Structured finance and securitization markets had a period of relative calm in 2017 as new regulations were incorporated into transactions. While no...more
The EU legislative institutions have now agreed compromise amendments to the proposed EU regulation intended to lay down common rules on securitisation and to create a European framework for “simple, transparent and...more
Within the past few months, there have been a number of reports of the resurgence, particularly in Europe, of synthetic securitizations of risky assets. These transactions allow banks to transfer credit and other default...more
Financial Industry Developments - CTFC Approves Re-Proposal of Position Limits Regulation - On December 5, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") unanimously approved to re-propose rules that...more
SEC Adopts Rules for Enhanced Regulatory Framework for Securities Clearing Agencies - On September 28, 2016 the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") voted to adopt new rules to establish "enhanced standards for the...more
On January 20, the EBA published a consultation paper (EBA/CP/2016/01) on draft guidelines on implicit support for securitization transactions under Article 248(2) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (Regulation 575/2013)...more
On September 30, 2015 the European Commission (EC) published a legislative proposal for an EU framework for simple, transparent and standardized securitization. It has also published a legislative proposal for a regulation...more