
"Know what you own, and know why you own it." - Peter Lynch When investors evaluate short term fixed income options, its all about what […]
"Know what you own, and know why you own it." - Peter Lynch When investors evaluate short term fixed income options, its all about what […]
The challenges in making a market for trade assets are several and significant. First, as an asset class, it is poorly understood by end investors. […]
If you listen to some of the publications out there, you would think that trade is already an asset class and all you have to […]
A recent article in Treasury Today talked about how uncertain bank regulatory and increasing costs of credit from Basel capital rules is putting Trade Receivable […]
Banks Lack Transparency in defining Trade Finance Defaults Yesterday, we looked at how two banks differ in their definition of trade finance related write-offs. […]
So just how do banks go about defining a default around Trade Finance? I was able to get some insights by reading the prospectus of […]
According to International Asset Transactions LLC (IAT), they have been dedicated to making illiquid (non-tradable) financial assets tradable since 1988. IAT claims to have pioneered […]
Scaling Institutional Investment in Trade Receivables requires creating Infrastructure and that includes Custodians (and not the janitorial kind). There are two big areas of third […]
Basel III and its new regulatory demands created high marginal costs of equity capital for banks, particularly with non investment grade exposures. Banks became increasingly […]
When Marketplace lenders establish new loans, the question of how repayment is going to work matters to investors, particularly those that invest in their securitization […]
Trade Receivable Securitizations is essentially a legal construct to get liquidity out of a diversified receivables portfolios with a different approach compared to factoring. You […]
The disruption occurring around working capital business banking is in the early days, but between “information advantaged” finance models and more expensive bank equity, start-ups […]