The transaction was secured by interests in a portfolio of eleven planned communities under development across Texas. As scrutiny of lenders with high concentrations in commercial real estate loans ...

May 6 (Reuters) - A very small proportion of U.S. banks have issued a complex product that enabled them to shed risk from loan portfolios and the relatively modest use of the products was a credit ...

LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Banks are increasingly ⁠turning ⁠to bespoke deals with private investment ⁠funds to shed credit risk, but the market needs close monitoring as it spawns new vulnerabilities ...

U.S. banks are increasingly turning to significant risk transfers (SRTs) to manage credit risk and optimize regulatory capital. SRTs are transactions that satisfy the definition and operational ...

KBRA releases research that examines the use of synthetic risk transfer (SRT) transactions referencing a variety of collateral types tied to corporate debt. The use of private credit corporate SRTs in ...

Regulators should avoid a hard cap on banks’ use of risk transfers, according to a structured credit expert, despite warnings about the growth of the market. Robert Bradbury, managing director at ...

If you’re unfamiliar with synthetic risk transfers, there’s a chance you’ll hear all about them when the next financial crisis hits. They’re the latest way for big banks to game rules designed to ...

Artem Lalaiants is the Founder and CEO of RiskSeal with 10+ years in fintech and deep expertise in alternative credit risk scoring. In digital lending, the first risk decision isn’t about ...