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This page provides a glossary for the Asset-Backed Fields.

Collateral Manager

This field allows you to find asset-backed deals where a particular collateral manager manages the collateral in the pool of assets.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.

Country of Pool of Assets This field allows you to find asset-backed securities with assets in the pool that are resident in a particular country.

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Final Maturity Date

This field allows you to find the final maturity date for asset-backed securities.

Because the life of an asset-backed security depends on the speed and volume of the cash flows that are coming in from the pool of assets, there is no clear-cut maturity date like on a normal bond. However, most asset-backed deals have a final maturity date, sometimes called legal maturity date or legal final maturity date to ensure that the structure does end at some time even if the cash flows come in slower than expected.

Originator This field allows you to search the originator of the asset-backed deal. This is the party that created the assets that go into the pool of assets owned by a special purpose vehicle.

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Originator Country This field allows you to search the county of incorporation of the originator.

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Originator Primary Industry

This field allows you to search the primary industry of the originator.

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Seller of Assets This field allows you to search the seller of assets in an asset-backed deal. A seller is the party that sells assets into the pool of assets owned by a Special Purpose Vehicle (“SPV”), its own assets or on behalf of an originator.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Servicer This field allows you to search the servicer in an asset-backed deal. The servicer has the role of administrator to keep accounts of the assets in the pool. The servicer is not actively managing or trading the underlying assets from an investment point of view.

The portfolio of securitized assets is directly managed by a servicer. On many occasions, the servicer is also the originator or seller of assets, but sometimes it may be a third party. The servicer has primarily two roles:

Investor reporting: monitors the performance of the portfolio and prepares a report to inform investors. The content of the report and the regularity (normally quarterly or monthly) of the reporting are normally predetermined in the transaction documents. In most jurisdictions, the servicer discloses this report directly, while in some jurisdictions this report is passed on to another party (the trustee or the SPV manager) that will be ultimately responsible of the disclosure; and

Portfolio administration: the servicer administers the pool, which may include renegotiating the terms of the underlying contracts with the obligors, collecting the cash flows from the assets and passing them on to the special purpose vehicle, replacing ineligible securitized assets with eligible assets and enforcing the mortgages or other securities backing the securitisation bonds.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
SPV Manager This field allows you to search the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) manager, typically in asset-backed deals. The SPV Manager’s manages the SPV in a structured financing deal. The role primarily provides a registered office and resources for administrative work.

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Swap Counterparty This field allows you to search the swap counterparty, typically in asset-backed deals. Asset backed deals can use a variety of swaps (credit default swaps, currency swaps, interest rate swaps, commodity swaps, and more) and therefore swap counterparties.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.
Transferor of Assets This field allows you to search the transferor of assets in an asset-backed deal. A transferor is the party that transfers the assets from the originator or seller into the pool of assets. Originator, seller, and transferor are often used to describe the same role. Because the roles of originator, seller, and transferor are so similar and the terms are used interchangeably, we only record the name of the Transferor when it is specifically mentioned in the document. If you cannot find a party acting as transferor, look for the same in the Originator and Seller field as well and vice versa.

There are not many deals that use all three terms for different roles in the same deal.

Use Boolean operators to apply logic to your search.