BCBS and IOSCO propose criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitizations

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Jul 06, 2017

On July 6, 2017, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a consultative document which aims to assist the financial industry in its development of simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitizations.

The consultative document is entitled Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations (the short-term STC criteria), which is available on the BCBS and IOSCO websites. The short-term STC criteria maintain and build on the principles in the Criteria for identifying simple, transparent and comparable securitisations issued by BCBS-IOSCO in July 2015. The criteria published today take account of the characteristics of asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduits, such as (i) the short maturity of the commercial paper issued, (ii) the different forms of program structures and (iii) the existence of multiple forms of liquidity and credit support facilities.

The criteria aim to assist the financial industry in its development of simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitizations. They were designed to help the parties to such transactions to evaluate the risks of a particular securitization across similar products and to assist investors with their conduct of due diligence on securitizations.

The BCBS has concurrently issued a consultative document Capital treatment for simple, transparent and comparable short-term securitisations outlining how the short-term STC criteria could be incorporated into the regulatory capital framework for banks.

Re­view the press release on the IOSCO's web­site.

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