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Lender looks to bolster defences
Private transactions may 'resemble securitisations'
With a change in the credit cycle anticipated, some UK real estate lenders are adopting a more cautious strategy. One such firm is Octopus Property, which also recently created a head of structuring role (SCI 22 June) to help broaden its investor base, while employing securitisation-like funding methods.
Mario Berti, ceo of Octopus Property, comments that the firm has .......
Provider Profile 12 July 2018
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Start-up launches to solve structured product problems
Banks remain too big to fail and there is still opacity surrounding securitisation and structured products. This is the view of banking and derivatives veterans Philippe Naegeli and Patrick Loepfe, who have launched a new platform - dubbed GenTwo - aimed at addressing these challenges.
Loepfe, founder and chairman at GenTwo, was previously chief risk officer at DIVAS Asset Management .......
Provider Profile 7 June 2018
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Euro mortgage market heating up
A thriving European mortgage market is attracting foreign investors seeking to capitalise on the low-risk returns on offer, particularly in the UK and the Netherlands. New firms such as Fortrum (SCI 18 May) are being established, offering innovative products and services to help smooth the path for those venturing into the European structured finance sector.
Simon Collingridge, co-founder of Fortrum, .......
Provider Profile 1 June 2018
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Investment differentiation
SCI's profile questions are answered by Triphonas Kyriakis, md for analytics at MSCI; Raghu Suryanarayanan, executive director of MSCI's risk research group; and Thomas Ta, who directs the company's development of risk management analytics.
Q: How and when did MSCI's analytics business become involved in the securitisation market?
Provider Profile 24 February 2017
TT: MSCI has been helping investors analyse securitised products for over a decade, .......
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Evolving analytics
Valuation and risk landscape discussed
FINCAD has recently incorporated MBS into its F3 pricing, valuation and risk analytics solution. SCI asked James Church, vp, product management and R&D at FINCAD, about the challenges of bringing MBS into a common valuation and risk solution, as well as his views on the current valuation and analytics landscape.
Q: How and when did FINCAD become involved in the .......
Provider Profile 6 December 2016
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Liquidity focus
Frank Dos Santos, head of North America business strategy fo...
Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the pricing and valuations business? How has the service evolved in recent years?
A: Markit was founded in 2002 as a pricing service for CDS. From there, the service expanded to include bank loans.Since 2009 Markit has continued to expand its coverage of fixed income asset classes, now offering evaluated .......
Provider Profile 29 September 2016
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Transparency drive
Robert Vincini, head of pricing service specialists at Thomson Reuters, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did your firm become involved in the pricing and valuations business? How has your service evolved in recent years?
Provider Profile 23 May 2016
A: We started in 1991 as EJV Partners (Electronic Joint Venture). Reuters purchased certain assets of Bridge - including bond pricing and reference data - in 2001, forming Reuters Pricing Service. After the merger of Thomson Corporation and Reuters .......
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Energy boost
Renovate America capital markets md Craig Braun and capital...
Q: How and when did Renovate America become involved in the securitisation market?
Braun: We started originating PACE loans in 2012 and we securitised our first HERO bonds in 2014. PACE provides a financing alternative for homeowners when they need to replace aging heating or air conditioning units or make other energy efficiency or renewable energy upgrades.PACE allows homeowners to .......
Provider Profile 9 March 2016
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Solar effect
BBOXX ceo and co-founder Mansoor Hamayun answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 26 February 2016
Q: How and when did BBOXX become involved in the securitisation market?
A: You need to look at the core of our business first, which is around designing, distributing and financing solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and other parts of the developing world. Since 2010, we've sold 55,000 solar kits and impacted .......
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Alpha alternative
Indus Valley Partners co-founder Bijesh Amin answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Indus Valley Partners become involved in the securitisation market?
A: I co-founded Indus Valley Partners in 2000 to provide a specialist solutions firm focused exclusively on the alternative asset management industry. We are now the largest firm specialising in this field.We currently have 380 professionals, working across four time-zones, covering the US, India and Europe, .......
Provider Profile 3 August 2015
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Embedding liquidity
eBond Advisors co-founder and managing partner Richard MacWi...
Q: How and when did eBond Advisors become involved in the derivatives markets?
Provider Profile 28 April 2015
RM: Mac McQuown and I founded eBond Advisors in 2010, with the goal to explore improvements in the structure of corporate bonds so they could be purchased by more investors. This effort was a direct outgrowth of the credit crisis where corporate bonds were unnecessarily affected by market .......
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New broom
Mount Street managing partner and ceo Ravi Joseph and director Jonathan Banks answer SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Mount Street become involved in the securitisation market?
RJ: Mount Street is an amalgam of a couple of different businesses. We began taking on servicing assignments about two years ago and this business has grown quickly around the emergence of non-bank lenders, most of whom choose to outsource their servicing requirements.We then acquired the Frankfurt .......
Provider Profile 24 November 2014
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European alternative
Stefan Bund, group md and head of asset-based finance at Scope Ratings, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Scope Ratings become involved in the securitisation market?
A: Scope Ratings was established in 2002 as a funds analysis house, specialising in the commercial real estate, SME and infrastructure sectors. The company expanded into the credit rating business in 2012 by merging with a smaller German rating agency.Scope's move was .......
Provider Profile 29 July 2014
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Intermediary initiative
Nassar Hussain, managing partner at Brookland Partners, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 12 September 2013
Q: How and when did Brookland Partners become involved in the CMBS market?
A: Brookland Partners has been lead financial adviser on over 25 CMBS transactions totalling in excess of €22bn since our launch in 2009. We act as financial adviser to government agencies, financial institutions, private equity firms, property companies and the vast majority of .......
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Linking-in credit
Mike Manning, DealVector co-founder and ceo, and Dave Jeffer...
Q: How and when did DealVector become involved in the structured finance markets?
MM: The system has been live for two months or so, although of course we have been developing for longer than that. We really are filling a gap in the market and providing a service that investors tell us they have been crying out for.DealVector is 'LinkedIn' .......
Provider Profile 6 June 2013
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Leveraging value-at-risk
Richard Green, director at Venn Partners, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Venn Partners become involved in the securitisation market?
A: Venn Partners was established in 2009 by a team of four former bankers. We've grown to a team of 20 since then.The business focuses on three areas: European CRE lending; bank solutions; and advisory and analytics. Our CRE lending platform - .......
Provider Profile 4 June 2013
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Multi-disciplinary approach
Hansol Kim, md in FTI Consulting's structured finance practice, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 29 October 2012
Q: How and when did FTI Consulting become involved in the securitisation market?
A: FTI is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that is well known in the restructuring world, which falls under our corporate finance group. But we also have robust and established practices in forensic and litigation, economic, strategic communications and technology consulting. I run the .......
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High-touch provider
Greg Winchester, md at TriMont Real Estate Advisors, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did TriMont Real Estate Advisors become involved in the CMBS market?
Provider Profile 6 July 2012
A: The company began in 1988 as Hatfield Philips, focusing on special servicing predominantly related to the thrift crisis in the US. We'd become the largest Resolution Trust Corporation contractor in the Southeast by the early 1990s. We then developed a large primary servicer and asset .......
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Fundamental resilience
Richard Cooperstein, president of RangeMark Analytics, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did RangeMark Analytics become involved in the structured finance markets?
Provider Profile 15 February 2012
A: RangeMark Analytics was formed when I joined RangeMark Financial Services along with my analytics platform - Fixed-Income Valuation Platform (SCI 18 January). The aim is to supplement RangeMark's existing advisory business by licensing the platform and our other applications to financial institutions, institutional investors and government .......
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Navigating CMBS
Dan Smith, president and ceo of Four Point Alliance, answers SCI's questions
Provider Profile 2 December 2011
Q: How and when did Four Point Alliance become involved in the CMBS market?
A: Four Point Alliance (FPA) is a commercial real estate advisory firm specialising in expert witness testimony in CMBS and other types of commercial real estate lawsuits, CMBS loan servicing and asset management. I formed the firm in 2009 to assist borrowers, .......
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Capturing market trends
Adam Prather, principal at Solve Advisors, answers SCI's questions
Q: How and when did Solve Advisors become involved in the structured finance market?
Provider Profile 28 November 2011
A: Solve Advisors was formed in July by myself and three colleagues - Eugene Grinberg, Matt McCann and Gerard Nealon. We were all formerly at Red Pine Advisors, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey last year. At our previous employer, we developed many tools, including a pricing .......
