Updates and analysis on current issues and topics faced by our structured finance lawyers
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Nearly eight years ago I penned a piece about the hugely important role that securitisation can play in alleviating the pain suffered by banks on account of the large volumes of non-core assets and non-performing loans residing on their balance sheets. The deployment of securitisation technology certainly made a lot of…
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The term “NPL Securitisation” has been bandied around a lot recently, and for good reason given the hugely important role it can play in the non-performing loan (NPL) arena.
As banks begin to contemplate life after COVID, they will be acutely aware of the need to neutralise NPLs sooner rather than…
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NPL Securitisation is a term that is very much en-vogue at the present time. Although its rise to prominence can be attributed to a number of factors, in recent weeks the chief contributor has been the European legislature steps towards amending the Securitisation Regulation and the Capital Requirements Regulation.…
Looking at the most recent data in the European Banking Authority quarterly Risk Dashboard (published on 5 October 2020), it becomes abundantly clear that COVID-19 is beginning to manifest itself in the NPL market with the cessation of the multi-year declining trend in NPL levels. The NPL tide has clearly changed, and if you consider…
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At a glance
A large number of legacy non-performing loan exposures (NPLs) continue to subsist on the balance sheets of banks. Portfolios of NPLs tie up huge amounts of regulatory capital which, in turn, limits the amount of capital that banks have available to lend to the real economy. The economic…
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Those readers that have followed the meteoric rise of the European non-performing loan (NPL) market from the ashes of the global financial crisis (GFC) will be very aware of the profound impact that COVID-19 has had. In the space of a few weeks a large, burgeoning market that exhibited…
