The ECB said it would guard against “undue risk-taking and a weakening of resilience” from banks’ surging issuance of a securitisation product known as significant risk transfer (SRT), in which ...

Single-Family credit risk transfer (CRT) issuance was nearly $5.1 billion in 2025. Issuance for the year included five STACR ® (Structured Agency Credit Risk) and six ACIS ® (Agency Credit Insurance ...

If you think synthetic risk transfers are some contrived nonsense whose primary purpose is to circumvent regulatory capital ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) announced today that it has executed its seventh Credit Insurance Risk Transfer™ (CIRT™) transaction of the year. CIRT 2024-L4 ...

[Update 1: An earlier version of this article stated Senator Mike Crapo was from Indiana. It is now corrected to say Idaho.] A bipartisan group of Senate Banking Committee members wrote a letter ...

Ally Financial has joined the ranks of banks doing deals known as synthetic credit-risk transfers. These deals—for a price—might make lenders look less risky for certain purposes. They don’t transfer ...

Learn how credit default insurance protects against borrower default risks through credit derivatives like swaps, helping investors manage credit exposure efficiently.

A credit default swap (CDS) is a contract that protects lenders from borrower default. Learn how a CDS works, why they’re ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) announced today that it has executed a new Credit Insurance Risk Transfer™ (CIRT™) transaction. CIRT 2024-H3 transferred $160.9 ...