The European Commission (the “Commission”) has now adopted and published the draft regulatory technical standards (the “Draft RTS”) in relation to the transparency requirements under the EU Securitisation Regulation (the “Securitisation Regulation”). The Draft RTS are based on the draft regulatory technical standards published by the European Securities and Markets Authority on 31 January 2019 (the “ESMA Draft RTS”) and set out the information to be provided with respect to the underlying exposures in a securitisation and in the investor reports. The related implementing technical standards (the “ITS”), which set out the reporting templates, have not yet been adopted.
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Mayer Brown’s structured finance bulletin

In this inaugural edition of our Structured Finance Bulletin, we discuss some trending issues that began impacting the structured finance and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities spaces in late 2018, which will play a more prominent role in the execution and marketing of securitization transactions in 2019.…
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Comparison of EU, US and Japanese risk retention rules
By Amanda L. Baker, Ryan Suda & Sagi Tamir on
As more countries propose and implement risk retention rules for securitisation transactions, a few Mayer Brown attorneys have prepared a helpful chart comparing the EU, US and Japanese securitisation risk retention rules.
Securitisation Risk Retention Requirements EU, US and Japan Compared