The International Finance Corp has signed its second securitization in recent years, and first using a synthetic structure.

Banking organizations looking to reduce the amount of risk-based regulatory capital required to support residential mortgage loan portfolios can use synthetic securitization to convert the capital ...

The African Development Bank’s first synthetic securitization in 2018 and first hybrid capital issue in 2024 were showered ...

The initiative forms part of the broader efforts by the World Bank Group to increase private sector participation in emerging ...

The European Commission is proposing regulations to reduce buy-side reliance on ratings-agency ratings and require investors to instead internally rate their own cash and synthetic securitization ...

The Fed's willingness to offer capital relief to banks using synthetic risk transfers is an excellent example of a regulator listening to its critics and responding accordingly, writes Cris Cicala.

As we previously reported here in Cabinet News & Views, the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC reproposed the Basel III Endgame package of amendments to the U.S. risk-based capital rules (“The ...

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 ...

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 ...

European banks are enjoying higher subscription levels and lower pricing for significant risk transfer (SRT) trades this year. This is down to booming demand for capital-relief instruments from US ...

The European Central Bank, wary of lenders’ over-reliance on synthetic risk transfers, is urging issuers to use other ways of securitizing assets, according to people familiar with the matter. In a ...

Inter-American Investment Corporation is looking to free capital as part of its plan to increase lending in Latin America and the Caribbean through a type of synthetic securitization pioneered in ...