Market Structure and Dynamics
SFA regularly reviews our market structures, processes and dynamics to promote a robust, liquid, growing and healthy structured finance market.
Overview
It is difficult and sometimes impossible for bondholders to communicate with the companies that issue the securities they own or for bondholders who own the same securities to communicate with one another.
The system is so unreliable that when evaluating potential solutions for the transition away from LIBOR, one of the financial markets most at risk today, participants think bondholder consent for an amendment is unfeasible.
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News
Missed Auto Loan Payments on the Rise
Consumers across the credit spectrum are struggling to make car payments. Delinquencies for subprime auto loan borrowers climbed to nearly 6.5 percent in January and remained elevated…
Regional Banks Write off Loans
After a series of bankruptcies and fraud cases, regional banks have been writing off bad loans over the course of the last two weeks, which…
Canada to Invest More Domestically
The Canadian government, in response to a weakening business environment and U.S. tariffs, wants to make changes to facilitate greater Canadian pension investments into Canadian…
Economic Outlook Improves
Pulling from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) quarterly surveys, Reuters reports that the U.S. economic outlook has improved slightly even under geopolitical pressures. Projected economic growth…
Fed Shifts Focus to Labor Side of Dual Mandate
In a speech on October 14, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stated that employment and inflation expectations have not differed from September’s evaluations. While recent…