Securitised Products at UniCredit

UniCredit is an expert in structured products based on securitisation techniques. The Securitised Products Team, which is part of the Corporate & Investment Banking division, structures and places transactions for corporate clients and financial institutions in the core markets of UniCredit as well as for UniCredit.

The business model of Securitised Products for corporate clients is geared towards international and national companies, and satisfies their needs with tailored solutions. Securitised products allow UniCredit’s clients to increase liquidity, achieve favourable financing conditions, diversify their funding sources, enhance their working capital and manage risk.

UniCredit has developed and implemented a series of successful securitisation platforms, thereby demonstrating its leading expertise in true sale and synthetic securitisation in Europe:

• Nine deals have now been structured and placed as part of UniCredit's Geldilux programme, bringing the total volume of all issues under this European benchmark programme to EUR 18.9 bn.
• Since 2007, one large corporate transaction and two SME transactions amounting to a total volume of EUR 11.8 bn have been concluded via the European platform "EuroConnect" for synthetic multi-originator transactions.
• As one of the leading sponsors of ABCP programmes, UniCredit is active on the European and American market with the multi-seller programme Arabella Finance, current outstanding volume is at approx. EUR 4 bn in a growing mode.

In southern Europe, UniCredit has already carried out more than 63 transactions with a total volume of over EUR 100 bn. With its innovative programmes, UniCredit has a strong influence in the securitisation market, particularly in Italy. Cordusio SME is, for example, the first synthetic SME securitisation in Italy. With the Cordusio RMBS Programme, UniCredit operates the largest mortgage securitisation platform in Italy, and with Locat SV, one of the biggest easing securitisation platforms in Europe.

In Eastern Europe, UniCredit is market leader in ABS. To date, two transactions have been concluded in the Czech Republic and Poland, and ten in Russia.

UniCredit is a simple, pan-European commercial bank providing unique access to Western, Central and Eastern Europe with an unrivalled strategic presence in 14 European core markets and an International Network spanning another 16 countries worldwide.

UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking is fully plugged into UniCredit Group and serves 1,500 multinational corporates and key financial institutions and supports the Group's corporate banking units in delivering services to 600,000 corporate and public sector clients. Furthermore, we deliver investment solutions for UniCredit's retail and private banking clients.

At home throughout Europe, we are the partner of choice for our clients' increasingly sophisticated demand for Corporate Banking and Transaction Services, Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Investment Products. We offer local expertise as well as international reach and accompany our clients globally. We are a leading corporate lender and underwriter in Europe with over EUR 300 billion outstanding. As a leader in debt and trade finance, we consistently rank in the top three positions in league tables for combined loans and bonds in Euros and are recognized as a Trade Finance Powerhouse in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.