The repo effect

The ability of banks to use securitisation deals as collateral for repo funding from central banks has resulted in larger deals with more esoteric assets. Laurence Neville looks at how this change is affecting the securitisation market as a whole

The public securitisation market represented just 2.5% of the estimated EUR600 billion in European ABS issuance last year. Instead, almost all activity was focused on deals eligible for repo with the Bank of England and ECB. With banks struggling to access other funding sources, they have channelled their energy into realising value from assets sitting on their loan books.

Inevitably, this activity has changed the shape of deals. "Without the need to market deals - or the requirement to tell the

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