Skin-in-The-Game in ABS Transactions: A Critical Review of Policy Options
32 Pages Posted: 14 Feb 2018
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Skin-in-the-Game in ABS Transactions: A Critical Review of Policy Options
Date Written: January 2018
Abstract
In response to the financial crisis, as a way to align incentives of originators and investors, new regulation in the US (Dodd-Frank) and the EU (CRR) requires issuers of asset backed securities to hold some skin-in-the-game, offering a set of options for risk retention. We propose an intuitive metric exposing effective risk retention and demonstrate that it varies widely across the available retention options. Requiring open disclosure of the metric, rather than demanding choice among arbitrarily specified and dissimilar retention options, would allow markets to price retention properly, and issuers to choose their desired retention level freely.
Keywords: ABS, and standardized securitizations), Dodd-Frank Act, regulation, retention, Structured finance, STS (simple, transparent
JEL Classification: G28
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