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Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
... The CLO market in Europe has doubled in the past two years and we will see a lot more of that activity here." According to Fitch Ratings, issuance of credit derivatives, CLOs and related products such as credit default swaps and collateralised debt obligations ...

Lo-doc lending headaches

... 30+ day arrears have doubled in the past 18 months and are three times those of the market as a whole," said Andrew Berg, Fitch Ratings' head of Australian RMBS Surveillance. Deloitte highlighted emerging evidence that repossessions are on the increase ...

Emerging markets out, Japan in

... international, emerging markets and US funds with US$7 trillion in assets, including offshore and US-registered funds. Meanwhile, Fitch Ratings has noted that Japanese securities companies have posted their highest fiscal year net profits since the country's ...

Future Fund appointee's business cops downgrades from Fitch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Fitch Ratings has downgraded all funds formerly under the watch of Future Fund board appointee Trevor Rowe's company N M Rothschild and Sons (Australia) (NMRA) following last week's announcement NMRA had offloaded that part of the business to Invesco ...

Bird flu pandemic risk could strike insurers

Life insurers and their reinsurers could be significantly impacted by a bird flu pandemic. Fitch Ratings has released a report detailing the impact of any bird flu pandemic on life insurers and reinsurers, should the disease transmute and become transmitted ...

Pre-Christmas sale earns Absolute Capital NZ$30m

Absolute Capital Group Limited (Absolute Capital) celebrated Christmas early in 2005, raising NZ$30 million through the release of Packaged Income Notes (PINs), paving the way for an Australian launch. Absolute Capital's group managing directior and ...

ASIC gives credit rating agencies a break

... instruments only. The relief will exempt Moody's Investors Service Pty Limited, Standard & Poor's (Australia) Pty Limited, Fitch Australia Pty Limited and Rapid Ratings Pty Limited from being licensed. ASIC's assistant director regulatory policy, Joanna ...

Macquarie launches global infrastructure fund

... in Atlantic Aviation, Chicago Skyway and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. As Macquarie International's portfolio manager Jon Fitch says, "We will be looking to invest in companies that own, operate or manage assets that may be strategic, monopolistic or irreplaceable ...

Transurban revisits Aussie debt market

... referenced against a mid rate semi-annual benchmark. The issue will be rated A- by Standard & Poor's, A3 by Moody's and A- by Fitch Ratings. ABN Amro head of Australian debt capital markets Malcolm Coleman said "we anticipate good support for this repeat ...

West LB launches minimum $300 million MTN

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2004
... for the floating rate tranche. The issue will be rated AA by Standard & Poor's, Aa2 by Moody's Investor Service and AAA by Fitch Ratings. Joint lead managers are ABN AMRO and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Pricing is scheduled for 1500 AEST tomorrow ...