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Securitisation is not dead

Securitisation is not dead

By Michael Heise, chief economist Allianz Group/Dresdner Bank

May 1998

Japanese debt: Selling the securitization story





Japanese bank loan securitizations
Bank Vehicle Underlying loans   Nominal  ($ mn) Bookrunner
Tokyo Mitsubishi Wizard Finance Japan 817 Tokyo-Mitsubishi
IBJ Prime Funding US 1,212 IBJ
Sumitomo Wings US 2,400 Goldman Sachs
Sakura Harvest Japan 351 Sakura Finance
Sanwa Excelsior US 1,553 Lehman Brothers
Sumitomo Aurora Europe 2,347 Lehman Brothers
IBJ Lily Japan 698 IBJ
Source: Capital Data Bondware
The bad-loan troubles of Japan's banks are no secret. Western vultures have been circling Tokyo for months knowing that at some point the banks would go through their pain threshold. When that happened they would start offloading problem loans at the best prices they could muster.

For many Japanese banks that point has been reached and the market in Japanese distressed loans is getting into full swing. US banks especially are expanding distressed trading operations in Tokyo - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs and Merrill...


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