Häusler, who was giving a briefing to the Bank of England on the IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report, said: “There is a lack of transparency about where credit risk ends up,” but he added ...

The ECB said it would guard against “undue risk-taking and a weakening of resilience” from banks’ surging issuance of a securitisation product known as significant risk transfer (SRT), in which ...

At the time, Davies noted how one investment banker described synthetic collateralised debt obligations to him as “the most toxic element of the financial markets today".The new FSA research, which ...

Since its inception, Freddie Mac’s Single-Family CRT program has transferred approximately $118 billion of credit risk on ...

Enact Holdings recently announced that its mortgage insurance subsidiary secured approximately US$170 million in excess of loss reinsurance coverage, effective January 2027, in partnership with highly ...

Two recent reports—one by the IMF and another from the Philadelphia Fed—assess credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions and conclude that the product serves as a useful tool in reallocating credit risk ...

(Bloomberg) -- Banco BPM SpA is seeking investors for two significant risk transfers, potentially boosting its capital strength at a time when it’s also trying to stave off a takeover pursued by rival ...

William Cohan (“An old strategy is being reinvented by US banks”, On Wall Street, FT Weekend, December 7) contends that credit risk transfers (CRTs) are a risk to the financial system. Nothing could ...

LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - NatWest wants to bolster its lending firepower. To do so it plans to cut deals with investors to offload some of its loan risk, to make its capital go further and preserve ...

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