Latest news with #structuredfinance
Zawya
27-05-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Wells Fargo hires for EMEA real estate team: IFR
Wells Fargo has hired James Hawkins in its commercial real estate team for Europe, Middle East and Africa to lead its capital markets efforts, including focusing on structured finance. He is based in London and reports to Nicola Free, head of CRE for EMEA. Hawkins joined from Standard Chartered, where he was in its global credit markets team for almost two years, according to his profile on LinkedIn. He previously spent 11 years at Barclays, including in securitised product solutions and real estate, his profile showed. Source: IFR
Bloomberg
19-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Carlyle's AlpInvest Bundles Private Equity Stakes in $1 Billion Financing
Carlyle Group Inc. 's private equity platform AlpInvest is preparing to sell a roughly $1 billion structured finance instrument backed by cash flows from some of the buyout funds it oversees, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Evercore Inc. is arranging the collateralized fund obligation, which will include at least one debt portion as well as a riskier first-loss piece, said the people, who asked not to be named because they're not authorized to speak publicly. AlpInvest is packaging some of its so-called secondaries funds into the deal, the people added. Secondaries funds buy existing private equity fund stakes from investors seeking an exit.
Bloomberg
15-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Goldman Sees AI Investment Boosting Structured Finance
Companies are seeking vast amounts of capital for a wide range of artificial intelligence-linked projects, including building data centers and fiber optic networks, creating demand for funding in structured finance markets. That's according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 's Steven Moffitt and John Greenwood, who run a team that finds ways to repackage debt into securities of varying risk and size, and which appeal to different types of money managers. These investors are more comfortable delving into relatively illiquid structured finance markets than traditional investors like banks, as it means they can look past plain vanilla corporate bonds and at more tailored products instead — like asset-backed securities.
