SFVegas – SFA Documents
Provided by Structured Finance Association
LIBOR Discontinuation and Transition to Alternative Benchmarks
o Issue Brief: Discontinuation of LIBOR
o SFA Statement for the Record Before House Financial Services Committee LIBOR Hearing
o Options for Using SOFR in New ABS, MBS, and CMBS Products
o Financial Times Op-Ed: Legislation is Needed to Ease Shift from LIBOR
o SFA Submits Joint Trades Letter in Support of Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act
o Join the SFA LIBOR Task Force: This task force leads the effort to develop an industry approach for transitioning away from LIBOR for both new and legacy LIBOR-based transactions. In addition, educates regulators, policymakers, and market participants on the potential impact of LIBOR transition and how to prepare.
ESG Investing
o SFA Response to SEC’s Request for Comment on Climate Change Disclosures, June 2021
o Bright Ideas: ESG Investing in Structured Finance – How Do We Do It and What Data Do We Need? – March 2021
o Bright Ideas: Racial Disparity in Housing – Historical Issues and the COVID-19 Challenge – February 2021
o Investing for the Good – The Rise of ESG, January 2021
o SFA’s ESG Industry Survey Results finding that nearly half (47%) of structured finance market participants report an ESG program in place at the Structured Finance level, November 2020
o 2nd Annual SFA ESG Symposium, December 2020
o Evaluating Environmental Impact of Securitization Assets
o Expanding Lending to Marginalized and Underserved Communities
o Impact Investing – Evaluating Impact To Achieve Social Benefits
o Affordable Housing – Intersection for ESG-Minded Investors
o Ratings, Rankings and Scores
o Join SFA’s ESG Task Force: SFA has launched its new ESG initiative which aims to develop and publish a disclosure framework with asset-class-specific considerations for the securitization industry to be adopted globally. Members also receive ESG-related regulatory and market updates impacting the industry.
From the Carbon-Neutral Mindfulness Exercise, SFVegas October 2021
o ICAO Green Meetings Calculator
o EPA’s GHG Equivalencies Calculator
o CarbonBrief’s Climate Impact of Food Change
Carbon-Neutral—More Information
o Princeton’s Report: Net-Zero American
o Columbia University’s 35 Ideas for Carbon Reduction
o UN study on food production – Finds that 30% of GHGs globally are created by food production.
o US Dept. of Energy – Reports that 30% of US energy use goes to small electric devices.
o How Stuff Works – Recycling Information
GSE Credit Risk Transfer
o SFA White Paper on Economics of GSE Credit Risk Transfer-September 2021
o Join SFA’s CRT Committee which advocates on the benefits of establishing a level laying field where all market participants receive equitable capital treatment for similarly structured risk transfer transactions. The working group will also work to draft a response to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s recently announced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Enterprise Capital.
Global Initiatives
o SFA on UK Securitization Regulations
o SFA Feedback to European Commission High Level Forum Capital Markets Union Report
o SFA White Paper on China Market Development
o SFCanada 2021 Virtual Conference
o Join the SFA Global Initiatives Task Forces which cover the securitization markets around the globe, including Europe, the U.K. and Asia.