Covered Bonds

Highlights

• 15 May 2013
  • Credit Insight: May edition highlights positive impact of new FCA initiative
    AThe May edition of Credit Insight discusses the credit positive impact for UK RMBS and covered bonds of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) initiative to reduce interest-only mortgage borrower risk. The FCA’s initiative, which requires lenders to prompt borrowers with interest-only mortgages maturing before 2020 to check their repayment plans, will reduce default risk. We also discuss the mixed credit implications for Spanish SME transactions of the Spanish government’s new National Housing Plan for 2013-2016 and the credit negative impact for Spanish ABS of continued regulatory uncertainty in the Spanish electricity sector on the back of high tariff deficits... Full Report
• 13 May 2013
  • Update to Global Macro Outlook 2013-14
    Over the past three months, the global economy has lost momentum as it recovers from last year’s slowdown. Overall, we expect real GDP growth in the G-20 advanced economies of around 1.2% during 2013, a little weaker than previously forecast, followed by 1.9% in 2014. We continue to expect the G-20 emerging economies to outpace advanced G-20 members... Full Report
• 12 Mar 2013
  • Finland’s legal framework for covered bonds
    We discuss key features of the covered bond legal framework in Finland in this third in a series of reports. These reports offer our credit perspective on the strength of each legal feature relative to a typical covered bond legal framework, and we use this common benchmark so that readers can meaningfully compare the reports across jurisdictions... Full Report