Securitisation Insights

In the latest episode of Morningstar DBRS’ “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, who leads our European Structured Finance Research team, is joined by Guglielmo Panizza, Vice President, European ABS Ratings, and Miklos Halasz, Assistant Vice President, European ABS Ratings, to discuss the treatment of alternative-fuelled vehicles in asset-backed securities (ABS) transa...

In this episode of Morningstar DBRS’ “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, who leads our European Structured Finance Research team, is joined by Rehanna Sameja, Senior Vice President, European RMBS & Covered Bond Ratings and Jonathan Riber, Senior Vice President, Sector Lead U.S. ABS Ratings, Consumer Assets, to discuss the solar energy sector. The episode covered the...

In this episode of Morningstar DBRS’ “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, who leads our European Structured Finance Research team, is joined by Adriana Alvarado, Senior Vice President, Sector Lead of Global Sovereign Ratings and Ketan Thaker, Managing Director of European RMBS & Covered Bond Ratings to discuss the impact of the new Labour government on the UK’s housin...

In this episode of Morningstar DBRS’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, collates the thoughts of Morningstar DBRS analysts featured at this year’s 2024 Global ABS conference in Barcelona: - Ronja Dahmen, Vice President, European RMBS & Covered Bond Ratings spoke on the Day 1 panel European Residential MBS - Christian Au...

In this episode, Mudasar Chaudhry, who leads European Structured Finance Research at Morningstar DBRS, is joined by Begum Gursoy, Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions at Morningstar Sustainalytics, and Christian Aufsatz, Managing Director, European Structured Finance Ratings at Morningstar DBRS, to discuss topics related to climate change and relevant credit considerations in structured finance...

In this episode, Mudasar Chaudhry, who leads European Structured Finance Research at Morningstar DBRS, is joined by Mirco Iacobucci, Senior Vice President, Sector Lead, European Real Estate Ratings, and Patrizia Catanese, Assistant Vice President, European Real Estate Ratings, to discuss how disclosures on energy efficiency and their implementation are addressed within the European commercial mort...

In this episode, Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research at Morningstar DBRS, is joined by Lorenzo Simonte, Assistant Vice President, European Nonperforming Loan (NPL) Ratings at Morningstar DBRS, and Norman Pepe, Partner at iLS , to discuss the role of different types of servicers in the context of Italian NPL transactions. We further discuss the decisions of some Italian c...

In this episode, Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, is joined by Richa Pandey, Analyst for European Structured Finance Research, and Christian Aufsatz, Managing Director and Head of European Structured Finance, to introduce Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). We discussed if there is quantitative relationship between energy-efficiency improvements and lower probabi...

In this episode Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, is joined by Christian Aufsatz, Managing Director, Head of European Structured Finance, and Marcos Alvarez, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Insurance, to give an introduction to climate change scenarios and how climate risk could result in an increase in debt issuers’ default probability or a reduction in asset v...

In this episode Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, is joined by Dinesh Thapar, Vice President, European CMBS, to discuss the recent trends in European commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and how the market is evolving from traditional CMBS to esoteric assets as the underlying collateral. We will also discuss the impact of high inflation and the rapid rise of i...

In this episode of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, is joined by Paolo Conti, Head of European ABS, to discuss the proposed updates to DBRS Morningstar’s "Rating European Consumer and Commercial Asset-Backed Securitisations" methodology. Speakers shared thoughts on what residual value (RV) risk is and why...

In this episode of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the recent trends observed in the UK Buy-to-Let (BTL) market. Mudasar is joined by Lorenzo Coccioli, Vice President of European RMBS & Covered Bonds. They delve into the details and share thoughts on the recent trends observed in the UK B...

In this episode, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the recent trends observed in relation to the evolution of foreclosures and bankruptcies in Spain over the past few years. Mudasar is joined by Alberto Cruces, Vice President, and Jorge Aranda, Senior Analyst, both members of the European NPL team based in DBRS Morningstar's Madrid office. Speakers del...

In this episode of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, collates the thoughts of the following four DBRS Morningstar analysts featured at this year’s 2023 Global ABS conference in Barcelona: - Christian Aufsatz, Head of European Structured Finance, moderated the Day 2 Institutional Investor’s Roundtable;...

In this two-part series of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the climate risk and potential impact on credit.   Mudasar is joined by Christian Aufsatz, Head of European Structured Finance, and Rehanna Sameja, Senior Vice President of European RMBS, to give an introduction to climate change,...

In this two-part series of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the climate risk and potential impact on credit.   Mudasar is joined by Christian Aufsatz, Head of European Structured Finance, and Rehanna Sameja, Senior Vice President of European RMBS, to give an introduction to climate change,...

In this episode of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the European auto asset-backed securities (ABS) sector and key changes in transaction structures within this space due to rising interest rates. Chaudhry is joined by Guglielmo Panizza, Vice President, and Miklos Halasz, Assistant Vice Pr...

In this episode of DBRS Morningstar’s “European Securitisation Insights” podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research at DBRS Morningstar, focuses on the European small and medium-size enterprise (SME) sector. He is joined by Carlos Silva, Head of European Structured Credit, and Maria Lopez, Senior Vice President of European Structured Credit, to discuss how the rec...

In this edition of  DBRS Morningstar’s European Securitisation Insights Podcast, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the CMBS market's forecast and discusses the rising demand for environmentally friendly office spaces in Europe. He is joined by Mirco Iacobucci, Head of European CMBS to discuss outlook of various different CRE asset types and  Andrea Sel...

In this edition of DBRS Morningstar’s European Securitisation Insights, host Mudasar Chaudhry, Head of European Structured Finance Research, focuses on the housing market's forecast and UK RMBS transactions. He is joined by Ketan Thaker, Head of European RMBS, and Andrew Lynch, Vice President, European Surveillance, who discuss changes in DBRS Morningstar’s rating methodology, the rationale behind...