Structured Finance Services
Acuity Knowledge Partners offers specialized structured finance services to securitization desks and structured finance teams at global investment banks and institutional investors. We provide end-to-end support across asset finance, structuring, portfolio management, risk analytics, trading, reporting, and research. Our analysts work as a natural extension of client teams, providing support on critical tasks such as the following:
- Loan tape cracking 
- Bespoke cash flow/credit modelling 
- Sourcing, organising and mining market data, and tracking custom metrics 
- Sell-side/buy-side research and publication 
- Valuation, stress testing and scenario analysis 
- Custom database/technology and automation solutions 
We take pride in our analyst pool with their multi-asset-class experience across functions in the securitisation space. Our deep domain understanding and tool-agnostic approach, coupled with in-house custom technology offerings, enable us to provide highly relevant, efficient and scalable solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing client systems and processes.
Who we serve
Securitisation and structured finance analytics support we offer
Buy side support services
- Valuation and trading 
- Buy-side research 
- Portfolio monitoring and surveillance 
- Risk analysis, stress testing 
- Custom structured finance analytics 
Sell side support services
- Loan tape cracking and collateral analysis 
- Warehouse and conduit reporting 
- Deal structuring, pool optimisation 
- Periodic, thematic research and newsletters 
- Cash flow, waterfall modelling, third-party tie-outs 
- Sell-side research 
- Investor reporting, pitch book, pot list and new issuance tracking 
Product coverage
- Mortgage-backed securities: RMBS, CMBS 
- Asset-backed securities: ABS, CDO, CLO, auto ABS, aircraft ABS, credit cards/accounts receivable 
- Whole-business securitisation 
- Esoteric assets and transactions 
Functional areas supported
- Asset finance 
- Deal structuring 
- Investment banking: sales, research 
- Portfolio management 
- Risk management 
Analytical tools/ platforms
- Intex 
- Trepp 
- Bloomberg 
- Collateral Analysis System (CAS) 
- Advanced Excel and SQL 
Automation and workflow management platforms
Aura - Automated Financial Data Extractor
Powerful financial data extraction and standardisation tool backed by strong artificial intelligence (AI)-/machine learning (ML)-based training algorithms.
 
								AI-/ML-based training models/algorithms learn the way you append data and updates financial taxonomies automatically at the back end
Best-in-class lookback referencing functionality that empowers auditors
How we are different
One of the biggest structured finance support teams across knowledge service providers
Trusted partners for leading bulge bracket firms across geographies
Experienced in the use of market leading tools through multiple client engagements
Robust in-house training modules for securitized products
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