Synthetic Risk Transfers Are The Talk Of The Town. But Are They As Scary As They Look?

Since 2016, banks have executed SRTs referencing more than $1.1 trillion in underlying assets, with annual issuance worth ...
JD Supra

Relaxation of EU Securitization Framework: Spotlight on Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) Transactions

In this alert, we assess the impact of the proposed amendments to the EU securitization framework (which we discussed in detail in our previous article) on EU banks’ ability to reduce capital ...
Euromoney

Insurance securitization: Finding a way to cope with mortality

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 ...
Financial Advisor

Wall Street's Hot Trade Keeps On Booming As SRT Issuance Surges

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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Wall Street’s Hot Trade Keeps On Booming as SRT Issuance Surges

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 ...