In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, Vesttoo co-founder and chief financial engineer Alon Lifshitz outlines how the insurance-linked securities landscape is evolving from catastrophe bonds to a wider range of structures, bringing insurance risk directly to the capital markets. He also discusses ILS modelling approaches, the involvement of rating agencies in the insurance risk transfer space and a new index project that is underway.

In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, Seth Painter, managing director and head of structured products at Antares Capital, discusses the role of the CLO market in funding the firm's direct lending business. In particular, he focuses on the burgeoning importance of middle market CLOs, which has been taking market share from the traditional BSL space at a rate of knots. 

In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, Arrow Global principal John Pellew discusses the evolution of blockchain technology in the securitisation market. We highlight the milestone achievements in the space, as well as the challenges that still need to be overcome.

In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, Waterfall Asset Management partner Keerthi Raghavan discusses the headwinds and tailwinds currently facing the US ABS market. In a bonus feature marking International Women’s Day on 8 March, we also chat to Linklaters managing associate Ruhi Patil about what this year’s campaign theme - ‘embrace equity’ - means to her.

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In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, we chat to Pretium Partners senior md and structured credit head Jerry Ouderkirk about relative value opportunities in the CLO market.

In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, we chat to Reed Smith partner Iain Balkwill about prospects for a CRE CLO market in Europe.

In this episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, we chat to MidOcean Partners md and ESG/compliance officer Candice Richards about the firm’s Women’s Awareness Initiative, a programme that is committed to bridging the gender diversity gap in the asset management industry. She is joined by MidOcean senior portfolio manager Joseph Rotando, who discusses the outlook for the CLO market.

In this inaugural episode of the SCI In Conversation podcast, we chat to KBRA European research head Gordon Kerr about a European securitisation investor survey the rating agency undertook in June and the implications of the findings today.

In this episode, Mark Pelham and Corinne Smith discuss a new research report on standardised banks' capital relief trades and where European securitisation investors are looking to find relative value in the year ahead.

This month the SCI team discusses a new company on the block offering balance sheet optimisation solutions, standardised banks and their struggles to break into the risk transfer market as well as Santander's latest securitisation of Finnish auto loans.