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Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
... 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

... 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 as lenders ...

Emerging markets out, Japan in

... 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 economic ...

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 ...

Transurban revisits Aussie debt market

... 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 borrower ...

West LB launches minimum $300 million MTN

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2004
... 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 and settlement ...

Fitch says downgrades QBE long term rating to A

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2004
Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, has on Monday downgraded QBE Insurance Group\'s long-term rating to \'A\' from \'A+\'. At the same time, the agency has assigned its proposed GPB150 million senior unsecured sterling issue due 2009 an ...

Credit default swaps fuel global credit derivatives growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2004
Single-name credit default swaps have fuelled growth in the global credit derivatives market this year, a Fitch Ratings survey has shown. The ratings agency said the surveyed global credit derivative market had expanded 71% to $2.8 trillion of gross ...

Macquarie Bank announces new funding vehicle for subsidiaries

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2004
... non-ELE subsidiaries. MIFL has been rated A3/P1 by Moodys Investors Service, A-/A1 by Standard & Poor\'s and A/F1 by Fitch Ratings. MIFL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie and has $400 million of share capital.