Capital relief trades make slow comeback from Covid slump

European synthetic credit risk transfer market now more expensive for banks

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Synthetic securitisation deals transferring credit risk from banks’ loan books to buy-side firms are making a slow comeback from a coronavirus-induced slump, and dealers are finding the market has become more expensive for issuers.

“The market for synthetics has almost completely stopped,” says Robert Bradbury, a managing director at advisory firm StormHarbour Securities. “Almost everything that would normally have been done was put on hold.”

Lenders use balance sheet synthetic securitisations

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