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Emerging Buy-to-Let Mortgage Opportunities in Europe – Introducing the Irish & Dutch Markets

11/10/2018 at 3:13 pm

Putting Frontier BTL Markets in Perspective 11 October 2018 Emerging BTL markets - IE and NL (PDF version) The buy-to-let mortgage capital markets in Europe have hitherto been dominated by opportunities in UK assets for the most part, with such risk dominating BTL RMBS markets and seen also more recently in listed bond and equity (whole loan fund) markets.  To be sure, the 20+ year history of UK buy-to-let lending has fuelled a deep market for institutional lending and investment, led b...

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ESMA Final Report on Securitisation Disclosure

03/09/2018 at 6:03 pm

Generally adaptable, but CLOs and NPLs face fresh burdens ESMA recently published its final report on the technical standards on disclosure requirements for securitisations in Europe. Looking through what is a highly technical 339-page document reveals a number of important consequences for the securitisation markets in Europe going forward. To recap, many existing securitisations in Europe have had reporting and disclosure requirements for more than five years, but these requirements were...

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