“synthetic risk transfer”
One of the hottest bits of high-octane financial engineering these days.
In SRTs, a bank offloads some or all of the risks of some of its loans to ease how much capital it has to set aside for regulatory purposes.
The loans remain on the bank’s balance sheet, but the buyer of an SRT typically promises to cover a chunk of the losses if the loans go bad.
The buyers are investors such as insurance companies, hedge funds and (increasingly) private credit funds, which take on the risk in exchange for a fee.
Robin Wigglesworth Financial Times 20 December 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/d91d35fc-93ab-4963-8587-7a00fe5c63b4
The deal is known on Wall Street as a synthetic risk transfer
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-deal-is-known-on-wall-street-as.html
Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 20 december 2024
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/12/rolfs-lanktips-20-december-2024.html
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