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Securitisation Workbook by Zoe Shaw,Mark Fisher
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    Description of Securitisation Workbook

    A new update of our best-selling workbook on securitisation. In its 2nd edition, this workbook has trained a generation of structured finance specialists.

    In eight extensive modules, this collection of specialists provide an introduction to the terminology and conceptual issues of asset securitisation, examine the types of credit enhancement, the structural challenges and cashflow analysis underpinning securitisation and more recent applications such as synthetic technology. The book also examines securitisation from the perspective of each of the key participants, including the issuer, trustee and rating agency. The legal, regulatory, tax and accounting considerations supporting securitisation are also fully explored.

    Each of the modules include self-test exercises to test your knowledge of these complex issues, and the workbook includes a glossary to ensure that you have a complete grasp of the terminology.

    Module 1 - Introduction and the issuer's perspective

    Module 2 - The rating agency's approach

    Module 3 - Credit enhancement, structural issues and cashflow analysis

    Module 4 - Collateralised debt obligations and synthetic securitisation structures

    Module 5 - Legal and regulatory considerations

    Module 6 - Tax issues

    Module 7 - Accounting issues

    Module 8 - The trustee's perspective

    The workbook includes contributions from Bankgesellschaft Berlin, Deloitte & Touche, Fitch Ratings, JP Morgan Chase, Prometheon and White and Case.

    Who Should Read this?
    Bankers, treasurers, insurance executives, investors, regulators, structured financiers, lawyers, risk managers

    Contents of Securitisation Workbook

    Module 1: Introduction and the issuer's perspective
    Objective
    What does 'securitisation' mean?
    What is the difference between securitisation and factoring?
    Exercise 1.1
    Why securitise?
    Macro objectives
    Strategic objectives
    Financial objectives
    Who are the investors?
    Advantages for investors
    Factors stimulating the growth of securitisation and development of the market
    The UK market
    Other European markets
    Exercise 1.2
    What type of assets can be securitised?
    Who are the originators?
    Exercise 1.3
    The growth of new asset classes and funding sources
    New asset classes
    The asset-backed commercial paper market
    Does a securitised transaction have to be off-balance sheet?
    Relevant structures for different asset types
    Trade receivables
    Residential mortgages
    Car receivables
    Exercise 1.4
    Exercise 1.5
    The key components of an asset-backed structure
    Temporary cash shortfalls
    Credit losses
    Basis risk
    Reinvestment risk
    Administration risk
    Exercise 1.6
    Typical steps in a securitised transaction
    Typical originator concerns
    Exercise 1.7
    Parties to a securitisation transaction
    Phases to a securitisation transaction
    Phase 1: Planning and preparation
    Phase 2: Structuring
    Phase 3: Documentation
    Phase 4: Issue to closing
    Phase 5: Post-closing administration
    Exercise 1.8

    Module 2: The rating agency's approach
    Introduction
    Exercise 2.1
    Main steps in the assignment of a rating to a structured finance transaction
    Phase 1: Feasibility study/sector review/sovereign risk
    Phase 2: Asset analysis/seller/servicer review/legal structure
    Phase 3: Cashflows model/credit enhancement calculations
    Phase 4: Presale report/final documents review/
    expected ratings/monitoring
    Exercise 2.2
    Established methodologies versus new asset classes
    Default probabilities
    Loss severity
    Concentration risk
    Exercise 2.3
    Counterparty risk
    Financial exposure
    Operational risk
    Exercise 2.4
    Conclusion

    Module 3: Credit enhancement, structural issues and cashflow analysis
    Overview
    Credit enhancement
    Objective
    What is credit enhancement?
    The development of credit enhancement
    How much enhancement is required?
    Sources of credit enhancement
    Types of credit enhancement
    Choosing the best type of credit enhancement
    Conclusion
    Exercise 3.1
    Structural issues
    Objective
    The nature of prepayment risk
    Causes of prepayment
    Risks of prepayment
    Valuing fixed-rate bonds with prepayment risk
    Measures of prepayment
    Estimating prepayment rates
    Practical methods of dealing with prepayment
    The importance of the order of priority of payment
    Conclusion
    Practical applications
    Objective
    Case study 1: Trade receivables securitisation
    Case study 2: A portfolio of residential mortgages –
    Granite Mortgages 00-2 plc
    Conclusion
    Cashflow analysis
    Objective
    What risk analysis procedures should be undertaken?
    Classical credit analysis
    The cashflow implications of asset purchase risks
    Structural risks
    Asset administration
    SPV management
    Funding risk
    Control
    Practical implementation
    Prepayment
    Arrears
    Static pool analysis
    Creating the first-loss provision
    The effect of seasoning
    Conclusion
    Exercise 3.2

    Module 4: Collateralised debt obligations and synthetic securitisation structures
    Overview
    Collateralised debt obligations
    Introduction
    Small and medium-sized entities
    CDO structures
    Types of CDOs
    Tranching of risk
    CBO/CLO collateral
    New collateral classes in CDOs
    What is the motivation for issuing CDOs?
    Who issues arbitrage CDOs?
    Balance-sheet CDOs
    CDO analysis
    Cashflow CDOs
    Structural features
    Cashflow CDOs – portfolio analysis
    Arbitrage CDOs and market value structures
    Synthetic CDOs
    Exercise 4.1
    Comparison between cashflow and synthetic transactions
    Synthetic arbitrage structures
    Conclusion
    Exercise 4.2

    Module 5: Legal and regulatory considerations
    Introduction
    Participants
    De-linkage
    True sale
    Receivables sale
    No recourse
    Transfer methods
    Novation
    Assignment
    Stamp duty
    Due diligence
    Declarations of trust
    Off-balance sheet treatment
    Bankruptcy remote
    Limiting creditors
    Limiting shareholder actions
    Limited recourse
    Non petition
    SPV location
    Security
    Disadvantages of floating charges
    Contents
    Registration
    Administration
    Company voluntary arrangements
    Insolvency
    Rating agencies
    Profit extraction
    Recharacterisation
    Fixed or floating charge
    Credit enhancement
    FSA Guide
    EU Insolvency Regulation
    Exercise 5.1

    Module 6: Tax issues
    Introduction
    Tax issues – originator
    Tax treatment of the sale of the debt or receivables portfolio
    What securitisation costs can be borne by the originator?
    Obtaining relief for credit enhancement
    Stamp duty and transfer tax
    Tax issues – SPV
    Location of SPV – tax haven versus treaty country
    Exercise 6.1

    Module 7: Accounting issues
    History
    Treatments of securitisation transactions
    Under UK GAAP
    Worked examples
    Originator company only accounts
    Originator consolidated group accounts
    SPV company only accounts
    Detailed example
    International Accounting Standards
    Background
    IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement
    IAS 27 and SIC 12

    Module 8: The trustee's perspective
    Introduction
    Generic trust and agency services
    Trustee
    Paying agent
    Common depositary
    Custodian
    Cash manager and account bank
    Listing agent
    Back-up servicing
    Product specific servicing
    CDO – portfolio administrator
    CDO – swap administrator
    Conduits – sub-administration
    Structured investment vehicles
    Conclusion
    Exercise 8.1
    Appendix: Quick reference guide to trustee and agency services

    Answers to exercises

    Glossary


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