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For the second week in a row, the U.S. ABS primary market has generated $13 billion in new issuance. As usual, the calendar was dominated by real estate related deals, with three credit card deals, an auto deal, a student loan deal and an insurance receivables deal sneaking their way into the market.
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Atlantic & Western Re Limited was set to price a $300 million catastrophe bond private placement last week on the heels of two vicious hurricane seasons that saw eight storms ravage the U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida regions in the past 15 months. The deal marks the sixth issuance this year in the under-the-radar sector.
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Almost one year to the date of its first-ever CDO issuance, Maxim Advisory last week brought to the market its first CDO backed by mezzanine-grade RMBS collateral. The deal is the fourth for Maxim, a unit of broker-dealer Maxim Group LLC.
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An increasingly wide band of market players looking to express a shorting interest in home-equity ABS has ballooned the credit default swap market on the month to more than $4 billion in bid and offer lists - surpassing cash market volumes, according to Lehman Brothers, and gapping out spreads on CDS premiums by as much as 250 basis points. Most of the activity has occurred at the triple-B rated levels, and 90% of protection buyers have focused on the 2004 and 2005 vintages, indicating an overwhelmingly bearish view of the housing market going forward.
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Despite rising interest rates, the number of subprime mortgage borrowers opting to refinance their mortgages increased in September, in one scenario by as much as 21.8% over the previous month, according to Michael Youngblood, head of ABS research at Friedman Billings Ramsey.
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Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Pacific Coast CDO Ltd., which was brought to the market by Credit Suisse First Boston in late September 2001, received another rash of downgrades last week.
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The nature of CLO exposure to troubled U.S. auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. shows how much those deals are, and have been, thirsty for loans that will offer higher-than-average spreads, according to Standard & Poor's.
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Year to date as of 10/27 Term (days) 10/21 10/24 10/25 10/26 10/27 1-week
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Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market Managers Proceeds (mils) Rank Mkt. Share # of Issues Deutsche Bank AG 8,744.1 1 12.2 15 Citigroup 8,299.9 2 11.5 14 JP Morgan 8,270.8 3 11.5 13 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc 7,943.7 4 11.1 10 Banc of America Securities LLC 7,695.8 5 10.7 12 Wachovia Corp 7,317.1 6 10.2 14 Barclays Capital 5,531.6 7 7.7 10 Credit Suisse First Boston 4,561.9 8 6.3 9 Goldman Sachs & Co 3,564.1 9 5.0 4 HSBC Holdings PLC 3,334.4 10 4.6 5 Industry Total 71,916.0 - 100.0 68 Source: Thomson Financial
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Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market Managers Proceeds (mils) Rank Mkt. Share # of Issues Merrill Lynch & Co Inc 19,472.7 1 17.6 28 Citigroup 14,645.2 2 13.2 33 Wachovia Corp 9,941.1 3 9.0 18 Bear Stearns & Co Inc 8,941.3 4 8.1 22 Morgan Stanley 8,824.2 5 8.0 31 Deutsche Bank AG 7,080.6 6 6.4 17 Banc of America Securities LLC 6,524.5 7 5.9 22 JP Morgan 5,293.0 8 4.8 14 UBS 5,278.1 9 4.8 12 Lehman Brothers 5,147.7 10 4.7 16 Industry Total 110,736.4 - 100.0 262 Source: Thomson Financial
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