11/25/2020 11:44:06 AM Lessons learnt from “The Missing Cryptoqueen”: has cryptocurrency regulation caught up? By Nathan Menon Georgia Crossman Read time: 4 minutes As terms like social distancing and the second wave have permeated our lives throughout the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic,...
11/3/2020 9:43:41 AM Navigating the NPL Securitisation maze By Iain Balkwill Read time: 4 minutes 25 seconds NPL Securitisation is a term that is very much en-vogue at the present time. Although its rise to...
10/7/2020 8:56:06 AM The tide has changed! Don’t wait – embrace NPL securitisation now! By Iain Balkwill Looking at the most recent data in the European Banking Authority quarterly Risk Dashboard (published on 5 October 2020), it becomes...
9/8/2020 12:15:21 PM CMBS 2.0: Treatment of prepayment fees and the icing on the cake By Iain Balkwill Read time: 3 minutes 50 seconds Fourteen years ago this September, I distinctly recall attending a conference hosted by the European CMSA...
8/26/2020 12:50:03 PM CMBS 2.0 – Standardisation the fuel for exponential growth By Iain Balkwill Whether you are a supporter of using CMBS to finance commercial real estate or not, the simple fact is that it provides an efficient...
8/13/2020 8:51:17 AM India’s sovereign credit rating – stick or twist? By Nathan Menon Mira Midelieva Read time: 3 minutes 15 seconds In June 2020, three of the large global rating agencies – Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”), Fitch...
7/29/2020 12:41:11 PM It is time for CMBS to flourish By Iain Balkwill Read time: 2 minutes 20 seconds The economic fallout of COVID-19 will be hugely significant for the European CMBS market, as a perfect...
7/23/2020 11:09:57 AM The British Government is giving the FCA new powers to deal with tough legacy – are they actually going to help? By Katie Grace Charlotte Simpson Claude Brown Joe Kohler +1 more... Show less Read time: 5 minutes 45 seconds The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to be given new powers to make changes to the methodology of...
7/1/2020 2:17:22 PM Can the EBA and Basel Committee proposals help banks clean up their balance sheets using NPL securitisations? By Tamara Box Iain Balkwill Karen Butler Emily Cartwright Sophie Davis +2 more... Show less Read time: 8 minutes At a glance A large number of legacy non-performing loan exposures (NPLs) continue to subsist on the balance sheets...
6/4/2020 12:27:22 PM The scene is set for a deluge of NPLs By Iain Balkwill Read time: 2 minutes 20 seconds Those readers that have followed the meteoric rise of the European non-performing loan (NPL) market from...
5/14/2020 10:35:44 AM Structuring securitisations in a post-Brexit world By Karen Butler Tamara Box Sarah Caldwell Read time: 3 minutes 3o seconds Background Although the United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) at 11pm on 31 January 2020, the...
5/5/2020 8:59:01 AM India – a special situation? The impact of COVID-19 on Indian non-performing assets By Nathan Menon Mira Midelieva Read time: 3 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has changed, at least temporarily, all facets of society and has had a truly global impact. ...
4/30/2020 2:43:46 PM EBA publishes additional supervisory measures on legislative and non-legislative moratoria on loan repayments in light of COVID-19 By Karen Butler Simon Hugo Emily Cartwright Sophie Davis +1 more... Show less Read time: 5 minutes On 2 April 2020, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published guidelines on legislative and non-legislative...
4/2/2020 1:38:45 PM CMBS 2.0 – Class X – variety is not always the spice of life By Iain Balkwill Read time: 3 minutes 30 seconds When it comes to the nuts and bolts of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), one of the key...
3/25/2020 12:31:16 PM COVID-19: impact on the LIBOR market and 2021 transition By Claude Brown Katie Grace Read time: 2 minutes 45 seconds In these uncertain times, we take a look at the potential implications of COVID-19 on the LIBOR...
3/24/2020 9:09:25 AM Shaping a sustainable financial ecosystem: how to integrate ESG factors By Mehrnaz Afshar Trish O'Donnell Ranajoy Basu Read time: 3 minutes 30 seconds The appetite for ethical finance shows no sign of slowing. But as the interest in Environmental, Social...