Finance Watch response to the European Commission consultation on an EU framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation.
Key points:
- It is essential that the future definition of qualifying securitisation integrate lessons from the crisis; among other things securitisation should exclude tranching from the framework in order to be truly simple.
- We regret that the qualifying framework relies on external ratings, in contradiction of the Commission’s objective to reduce the reliance on external credit assessment.
- We welcome the exclusion of synthetic securitisations from the framework.
- We believe that risk retention requirements should be increased for both qualifying and non-qualifying securitisation to a vertical slice of 15%.
- We hope that the Commission will take into account the opinion of non-industry stakeholders in its future framework.
