Yearly Archives: 2020

Covered Bonds – Flight to Quality

Critical Liquidity Source in Times of Stress In the past ten days, covered bonds have shown their value in a crisis for the Canadian banks. They have issued covered bonds in Europe at least seven times in that last ten … Continue reading →

Sub-Prime Mortgage Loans

A New Narrative A lot of ink has been spilled assigning liability for the financial crisis to sub-prime mortgage loans.The role of sub-prime mortgage loans was so prominent that it has been called the ‘sub-prime crisis’. But a recent study … Continue reading →

Reg AB II — BNS SEC Filing Expires

BNS SEC Filing Expires On September 9, 2016, the SEC registration statement of Bank of Nova Scotia for its covered bonds expired without renewal.*  This was followed by the pricing on September 13, 2016, of a $1.5 billion offering of … Continue reading →

Reg AB II — BMO Abandons SEC Filing

BMO Abandons SEC Filing On December 16, 2015, Bank of Montreal quietly withdrew its SEC registration statement for covered bonds.  The registration statement became effective on November 8, 2013.   The registration statement was originally filed in July 2013.   Prior to … Continue reading →

EU Covered Bond Framework

EU Covered Bond Framework December 2019 saw the enactment in European Union of a Covered Bond Framework consisting of a Covered Bond Directive and a Covered Bond Regulation to harmonize covered bond legislation across the Member States of the EU. … Continue reading →

U.S. Legislation in 2020

U.S. Legislation in 2020 Where are we with U.S. legislation for covered bonds starting 2020? First, we are in a highly contentious and partisan presidential election year. A few days ago CNN reported that there was a tie for the … Continue reading →