Asset securitisation as a risk management and funding tool : what does it hold in store for SMES?

The following chapter critically surveys the attendant benefits and drawbacks of asset securitisation on both financial institutions and firms. It also elicits salient lessons to be learned about the securitisation of SME-related obligations from a cursory review of SME securitisation in Germany as a foray of asset securitisation in a bank-centred financial system paired with a strong presence of SMEs in industrial production. JEL Classification: D81, G15, M2

The Basle securitisation framework explained: the regulatory treatment of asset securitisation : (forthcoming in Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 13, No. 1)

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the gradual evolution of the supervisory policy adopted by the Basle Committee for the regulatory treatment of asset securitisation. We carefully highlight the pathology of the new “securitisation framework” to facilitate a general understanding of what constitutes the current state of computing adequate capital requirements for securitised credit exposures. Although we incorporate a simplified sensitivity analysis of the varying levels of capital charges depending on the security design of asset securitisation transactions, we do not engage in a profound analysis of the benefits and drawbacks implicated in the new securitisation framework. JEL Klassifikation: E58, G21, G24, K23, L51. Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 13, No. 1

The Basle Securitisation Framework Explained: The Regulatory Treatment of Asset Securitisation

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the gradual evolution of the supervisory policy adopted by the Basle Committee for the regulatory treatment of asset securitisation. We carefully highlight the pathology of the new “securitisation framework” to facilitate a general understanding of what constitutes the current state of computing adequate capital requirements for securitised credit exposures. Although we incorporate a simplified sensitivity analysis of the varying levels of capital charges depending on the security design of asset securitisation transactions, we do not engage in a profound analysis of the benefits and drawbacks implicated in the new securitisation framework.Banking Regulation, Asset Securitisation, Basle Committee, Basle 2

Conflicts of interests in the conventional and Islamic securitisation

This article is available open access through the publisher’s website.The 2007-2008 financial crisis observed the demise of the securitisation market, and this caused doubts on the viability of conventional securitisation and its underlying ethos. In the wake of such a market failure the financial industry and legal scholars have been in search of alternatives to the conventional securitisation. Some suggested that Islamic securitisation could provide an answer to this market failure. In theoretical terms the most causes of the 2007-2008 crisis can be pin downed to market failures owing to conflict of interests of conventional securitisation. It is the instances of market failures that provide a justification for the new regulation to correct misaligned incentives1. In this scenario, when one resorts to the ‘Islamic securitisation’, it simply means resorting to this new regulation in the wake of the global market failure

Securitisation and the bank lending channel

The dramatic increase in securitisation activity has odified the functioning of credit markets by reducing the fundamental role of liquidity transformation performed by financial intermediaries. We claim that the changing role of banks from “originate and hold” to “originate, repackage and sell” has also modified banks’ abilities to grant credit and the effectiveness of the bank lending channel of monetary policy. Using a large sample of European banks, we find that the use of securitisation appears to shelter banks’ loan supply from the effects of monetary policy. Securitisation activity has also strengthened the capacity of banks to supply new loans but this capacity depends upon business cycle conditions and, notably, upon banks’ risk positions. In this respect, the recent experience of the sub-prime mortgage loans crisis is very instructive. JEL Classification: E44, E55asset securitisation, bank lending channel, monetary policy

Securitisation and the bank lending channel

The dramatic increase in securitisation activity has modified the functioning of credit markets by reducing the fundamental role of liquidity transformation performed by financial intermediaries. We claim that the changing role of banks from “originate and hold” to “originate, repackage and sell” has also modified banks’ abilities to grant credit and the effectiveness of the bank lending channel of monetary policy. Using a large sample of European banks, we find that the use of securitisation appears to shelter banks’ loan supply from the effects of monetary policy. Securitisation activity has also strengthened the capacity of banks to supply new loans but this capacity depends upon business cycle conditions as well as upon banks’ risk positions. In this respect the recent experience of the sub-prime mortgage loans crisis is very instructive.asset securitisation, bank lending channel, monetary policy

The Basle securitisation framework explained: the regulatory treatment of asset securitisation

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the gradual evolution of the supervisory policy adopted by the Basle Committee for the regulatory treatment of asset securitisation. We carefully highlight the pathology of the new “securitisation framework” to facilitate a general understanding of what constitutes the current state of computing adequate capital requirements for securitised credit exposures. Although we incorporate a simplified sensitivity analysis of the varying levels of capital charges depending on the security design of asset securitisation transactions, we do not engage in a profound analysis of the benefits and drawbacks implicated in the new securitisation framework. JEL Klassifikation: E58, G21, G24, K23, L51. Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Vol. 13, No. 1

Relationship between securitisation and residential mortgage market yields in Malaysia: a cointegration approach

This article examines the possible long-run association between residential mortgage securitisation and yield spread for residential mortgage rates in the Malaysian primary markets. The cointegration and error-correction framework was applied to quarterly data from the third quarter of 1988 to the first quarter of 2003. Unit root tests revealed that each variable is non-stationary in levels at the 5 percent level of significance. The cointegration test shows a cointegration between these variables. The estimate of error-correction model shows a high adjustment speed for yield spread to the deviation in the longrun equilibrium. Meanwhile, securitisation responded very slowly to the deviation

Securitisation: A Public Policy Tool?

This paper is a primer for policy analysts on the securitisation of assets and liabilities. It describes key elements of a typical asset securitisation; outlines the reasons for securitising assets; discusses the types of assets that can be securitised; describes the requirements for a successful asset securitisation; examines whether New Zealand's financial infrastructure presents any barriers to securitisation; discusses the issues surrounding the securitisation of liabilities; and analyses the potential public policy uses of securitisation. The paper does not aim to review sovereign securitisations that have occurred to date. The potential public policy benefits include more efficient financing, improved balance sheet structure, better risk management and improved fiscal credibility. However, the Crown's low borrowing costs and diversity of financial exposures limits the extent to which benefits are achievable and measurable. There is scope for securitisation to enhance fiscal credibility, particularly in the area of superannuation where policy credibility is a key determinant of a successful policy outcome. An appendix to the paper examines the costs and benefits of securitising the Crown's student loans portfolio. It concludes that further work could be done to quantify the costs and benefits but notes that the benefits would have to be significant in light of the additional costs associated with securitisation.

The shadow banking system: implications for fi nancial regulation

The current financial crisis has highlighted the changing role of financial institutions and the growing importance of the “shadow banking system” that grew on the back of the securitisation of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend has been most pronounced in the United States, but has had a profound influence for the global financial system as a whole. In a market-based financial system, banking and capital market developments are inseparable, and funding conditions are closely tied to the fluctuations of leverage of market-based fi nancial intermediaries. Balance sheet growth of market-based financial intermediaries provides a window on liquidity in the sense of availability of credit, while contractions of balance sheets have tended to precede the onset of financial crises. Securitisation was intended as a way to disperse credit risk to those who were better able to absorb losses, but instead securitisation served to increase the fragility of the financial system as a whole by allowing banks and other intermediaries to leverage up by buying each others’ securities. In the new, post-crisis financial system, the role of securitisation is likely to be held in check by more stringent financial regulation and the recognition of the importance of preventing excessive leverage and maturity mismatch in undermining financial stability.