In this episode of the GRU Podcast, IIF's Richard Gray, Director of Regulatory Affairs, is joined by Carole Gintz, Associate Managing Director, Structured Finance at Moody's Ratings and Ian Bell, Chief Executive Officer at PCS Markets, to discuss the current landscape surrounding the securitization market.

After providing a backdrop of the current state of the securitization markets and recent trends, Richard, Carole and Ian discuss many present and future topics within the market, with a particular focus on the market in Europe. The discussion includes highlighting significant regulatory requirements and features and the impact and implications for relevant stakeholders, the health of the securitization market from a credit point of view, consequences and potential outcomes from the recent European Commission consultation on the Functioning of the EU Securitisation Framework, the particular importance of the securitization market in the development of the Capital Markets Union and much more.

In this episode of the GRU Podcast, Andres Portilla, IIF's Managing Director of Regulatory Affairs, is joined by colleague Jessica Renier, Managing Director of Digital Finance, and Jacques Visser, Chief Legal Officer at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), to discuss developments both at DIFC and in the landscape of financial centers at large. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, including the role of financial centers in the financial industry, artificial intelligence regulation, approaches to the private wealth market, the ever-evolving landscape of digital assets, evolution and differentiation of DIFC's legal frameworks from other financial centers and much more.

In this episode of the GRU podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Ana Arsov, Global Head of Private Credit and Co-Head of Financial Institutions, and Scott Robinson, CFA, Associate Managing Director, Financial Institutions, of Moody’s Ratings to discuss the current landscape in Private Credit. The discussion begins with Ana outlaying the current state of the private credit market before detailing Moody’s role in the private market, who major investors are and what the outlook seems to be in the marketplace.

The episode then shifts to a focus on insurance, as Scott gives a brief overview of the history of insurers in the private credit space before discussing the interrelation between private creditors and insurers and the mutual benefits of the relationship. Ana and Scott continue the duration of the podcast describing alternative asset managers’ work with the insurance sector, key findings from a recent Moody’s survey of life insurers in private credit, approaching risks and benefits investing in private credit, rating activity in private credit, bank relationships in the private credit space, macro implications for the financial system and much more.