Crescent hires MDs for significant risk transfer strategy
The private credit manager’s bank capital solutions strategy focuses on credit risk-sharing deals

Specialised SRT investors bag healthy allocations as 'tourist money' steps back
SRT investors are receiving larger allocations when bidding for deals and banks are building closer relationships with investors, while those that run other business lines such as CLOs may find it easier to win deals

Private credit managers find “white space” even as capital concentrates among the few – Mercer
Institutional investors commit most of their capital to established private credit firms of scale, but they’re often more willing to take a chance on newcomers in strategies outside of direct lending

Regional banks drive growth of SRT market as EU continues to dominate issuance
Regional banks that used the standardised approach are playing a bigger role in SRT market, while the number of insurers writing credit protection through SRT almost doubled from 2023 to 2024

BNP Paribas taps alts head for combined BNP, AXA IM group
Isabelle Scemama will oversee more than EUR 300bn in assets as the two groups merge

Proposals for European SRT labelled ‘relentlessly positive’ for small banks and insurers
Europe’s significant risk transfer market could be transformed under sweeping European Commission proposals that aim to rewire the continent’s strict securitisation framework

Santander Asset Management plans SRT fund launch
EXCLUSIVE: Santander Asset Management is planning to launch a fund that will invest in significant risk transfer (SRT) transactions, according to sources familiar

PAG raises USD 1.25bn for significant risk transfers
The Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager is expecting the SRT market to grow at a 30% to 40% rate annually over the next few years

SRTs aren’t exactly a new idea

Despite superficial similarities, CLOs and SRTs don’t have much in common

Atos provides a French lesson for SRT investors

Global SRT market set for record year, according to Chorus estimates
A new update from SRT specialist Chorus Capital forecasts that 2024 will be another record-breaking year for its market with the number running around 25% ahead from last year so far

SRT market grows to EUR 18.5bn of junior tranches in 2023
Banks executed 89 synthetic securitizations for SRT globally in 2023, according to the IACPM’s latest synthetic securitization survey

Secret structured credit product becomes talk of the town as US opens up
What was once an opaque corner of structured credit has been in the spotlight, as the booming SRT market draws attention from growing numbers of banks and investors.

In September, the Fed said financial institutions could transfer risk to SPVs
The Fed’s reading of Basel 3.1 could double capital requirements — so it’s just as well it is softening on risk transfers.

Cheyne returns to SRT market with eye-catching hire
Cheyne Capital has re-entered the significant/synthetic risk transfer (SRT) market, bringing on an industry veteran to act as portfolio manager

US regulatory capital deals are increasing — and not just for big banks
US regulatory capital deals are increasing — and not just for big banks

BayernLB reveals two investors behind breakthrough €1bn SRT
Bayerische Landesbank says it has produced its first simple, transparent and standardised (STS) transaction in the form of a €1 billion SRT

Infra specialist makes first SRT investment
An affiliate of Nuveen says it has invested in an SRT for the first time

Eagle Point and Investcorp are latest CLO firms to target SRTs
CLO investors and asset managers are increasingly warming to significant risk transfers (SRTs), with Eagle Point Credit Management and Investcorp Credit Management two recent examples

UniCredit wraps up three synthetic securitisations with EIB backing
UniCredit says it has produced three synthetic securitisations which will free ithe bank up to lend over €5 billion to small and mid-sized enterprises in Italy, Germany and Bulgaria.

Alecta "closes the circle" as it invests with PGGM in Nordea SRT
Joint venture partners Alecta and PGGM Investments have printed a €2.5 billion significiant risk transfer with Nordea in what marks the first Simple, Transparent and Standardised-compliant SRT to reference pan-Nordic assets

SRT market keeps pumping deals as Greek and German banks free up capital
Dealflow in significant risk transfers is picking up, with a €2.7 billion Greek mortgage and SME lending deal and a €2.1 billion German corporate loan transaction printing in recent days

Regulators give securitisation another tranche
A gloomy economic outlook and drought in primary markets cast a deflated mood over last month’s Global ABS 2022 conference in Barcelona. But regulators and central banks’ encouraging attitude towards securitisation was in sharp contrast

A&M makes securitisation breakthrough with SRT for Polish bank
Alvarez & Marsal says it has completed its first securitisation as sole arranger after completing an SRT referencing a pool of housing community loans