Structured finance: Gulf securitization gets warm market welcome

Two MBS transactions have become the Gulf region’s first internationally rated securitizations.

Industry insiders have hailed the issuance of the first two internationally rated securitizations in the Gulf region as a starting shot for a Gulf-region structured credit market. The class A tranche of Tamweel’s $250 million of RMBS bonds, priced through Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered in mid-July, was given a provisional rating of Aa2 by ratings agency Moody’s, and AA by Fitch. It is one of the world’s first Shariah-compliant securitizations, and the first RMBS in the Gulf.

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