Trade our bodies have pushed again in opposition to claims that a lot of credit score securitisation nonetheless depends on “magical pondering”, arguing that the accusation “mischaracterises” the fashionable European market.

The Worldwide Affiliation of Credit score Portfolio Managers (IACPM), together with a number of different trade associations, has co-signed a response to an article revealed within the Monetary Instances this week on securitisation.

The trade leaders disputed 4 essential claims made about securitisation: comparisons between present practices and people of 2008; the suggestion that transactions are pushed by capital arbitrage; the conflation of Vital Danger Switch (SRTs) with Collateralised Mortgage Obligations (CLOs); and the assertion that AAA and AA-rated securities are extra susceptible to credit score deterioration than different fixed-income merchandise.

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Of their response, the trade our bodies argued that evaluating present practices to these earlier than 2008 overlooks the regulatory reforms applied since then, which have enabled “securitisation to play a constructive position in supporting Europe’s development”.

This “mischaracterises the fashionable European securitisation market,” the trade response mentioned. “Outdated fears danger holding again one of many EU’s most clear, well-regulated and efficient channels for supporting sustainable development.”

The sector argued that securitisation and SRTs assist banks handle credit score danger “safely, liberating up capital to assist lending to households and companies”.

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Addressing the conflation of SRTs with CLOs, the trade our bodies drew a distinction between the 2, noting that the previous is a danger and capital administration instrument topic to regulatory scrutiny, pre-trade supervision, and EU and UK regulatory frameworks. Whereas the latter are autos for channelling investor capital, primarily to sub-investment-grade corporates.

In response to the declare suggesting that AAA and AA-rated securities are extra susceptible to credit score deterioration than different fixed-income merchandise, the sector mentioned that this “ignores over 40 years of European asset-backed safety knowledge”, which exhibits that defaults and losses have in contrast carefully to different fixed-income merchandise with related scores.

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