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Securitisation is not dead

Securitisation is not dead

By Michael Heise, chief economist Allianz Group/Dresdner Bank

FX poll 2008:

FX poll 2008:

FX moves to centre stage

June 2008

Microfinance: Stan Chart and IFC free MFIs

Standard Chartered and the International Finance Corporation have joined forces to launch the first-ever issuance of credit-linked notes backed by loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.




Peter Sands, Standard Chartered: unlocking funding for microfinance

As the private sector arm of the World Bank, the IFC is investing $45 million in the notes – a basic credit derivative with an embedded default swap, allowing the issuer to transfer credit risk to investors. The notes will be issued by Microfinance Institutional Loans for Asia and Africa, or MILAA, a special-purpose vehicle set up by Standard Chartered to facilitate microfinance lending.

Vibhuti Sharma, global head of development organizations at the London-headquartered lender, says it only offers microfinance loans in markets where it is either strategically strong – notably in Africa and Asia, two markets that provide most of its earnings – or where it can...


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