Syndicated Scoop: Misys Targets Offerings for P2P Lending, US Regulatory Watch...

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This Month's Syndicated Scoop…

• Legislative fixes to Risk Retention and Leveraged Lending guidance could take a while (LSTA)
• US CLO market grappling with timeframe for disclosing risk retention holdings
• Misys targeting P2P lending, machine learning and blockchain technology

Regulatory Watch (LSTA)

Under the Trump Administration, loan market participants are hoping for a rollback of certain regulatory burdens such as Risk Retention and Leverage Lending Guidance. However, Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) News says that 'it may take a while for either of those issues to change materially for the loan market.' One reason for this assumption is due to the fact that 'FinReg Fixes' are not in the first wave of Republican priorities, according to the LSTA. 'The current priorities are repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, tax reform, immigration reform and the wall.'

US CLO market grapples with timeframe for disclosing risk-retention holdings

Reuters LPC reports that the US Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) market is attempting to set a standard timeframe for managers to report how much risk they intend to hold to comply with the Dodd-Frank regulation. The market is pushing ahead despite talk of a legislative fix to ease the regulatory burden under the Trump Administration; however, the exact timing for the disclosure is still being decided. 'Regulators want managers to give fair value determinations before CLOs are priced to give potential investors enough time to understand the calculations. A set timeframe could allow CLOs to be issued more quickly, removing another brake on new issuance, which has fallen for the last two years and is expected to drop again in 2017.'

Misys CEO Targets New IPO, Machine Learning and P2P Lending

Banking software provider Misys is rolling out a series of enhancements to its product focus ahead of its plan to return to the public markets, Bloomberg reports. Traditionally focused on treasury and capital markets solutions, Misys revised its focus to include solutions that would allow banks to branch into peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, as well as an offering for machine learning that would detect anomalies in trading patterns. Bloomberg also reports that the software provider is also looking into a blockchain offering for syndicated lending.

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