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 ...

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 ...

The Fed's willingness to offer capital relief to banks using synthetic risk transfers is an excellent example of a regulator listening to its critics and responding accordingly, writes Cris Cicala.

The magnet of development finance has an undeniable attraction for the ore of private capital. But it is still only picking ...

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 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 ...

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 European Central Bank, wary of lenders’ over-reliance on synthetic risk transfers, is urging issuers to use other ways of securitizing assets, according to people familiar with the matter. In a ...

Following the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and congressional investigations into the securitization market, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 prohibited ...

Inter-American Investment Corporation is looking to free capital as part of its plan to increase lending in Latin America and the Caribbean through a type of synthetic securitization pioneered in ...

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 ...

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 ...