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How much is too much SRT?

Supervisors have been stepping up their scrutiny of the significant risk transfer market, and several have outlined views that the market could become a financial stability problem if banks start doing too much SRT. So how much is too much?

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Windy city, stormy markets: Is the seven-year LBO model dead in 2026?

Moody’s carves out SRT warnings in bank rating methodology

The latest version of Moody’s Ratings bank methodology, updated last November, now includes specific language addressing banks’ use of significant risk transfers — and will potentially lead to issuers limiting their use of the tool for capital management.

ECON’s draft amendments send positive signal to CLO market

9fin | Influential members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) have tabled draft amendments to the EU’s securitisation regulation (SECR), offering what sources describe as a constructive, though preliminary, signal for the CLO market.

INEOS comments weren’t very ESG, but were they crackers? — Analysis

9fin | INEOS boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Sky News interview this week (Wednesday, 11 February) did two things at once. It reignited an already febrile debate about immigration in the UK, and it resurfaced a long-running industrial argument about whether Europe has made itself uncompetitive through energy and climate policy.