OREANDA-NEWS. December 22, 2014. Sberbank CIB has acted as the organiser of a deal under which the Agency For Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) supported a new issue of mortgage-secured bonds of Bank URALSIB as the back-up servicer and settlement agent.

During the deal, the issuer – LLC Mortgage Agent Uralsib 03 (http://uralsib03.ru/) – placed three tranches of mortgage bonds (‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘V’) worth a total of 4,819,280 thousand roubles. The size of the tranches is as follows: ‘А’ – 2,666,667 thousand roubles, ‘B’ – 1,333,333 thousand roubles, ‘V’ – 819,280 thousand roubles.

The coupon rate for the class ‘A’ bonds was set at 9% annually. The coupon rate for the class ‘B’ bonds was set at 3% annually. Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service assigned the class ‘A’ and ‘B’ bonds an international ‘Baa3’ rating.

The date of full redemption of all the bond tranches is October 15, 2047.

“This is our third mortgage portfolio securitisation deal with Bank URALSIB. It’s hard to get one of the largest players of the mortgage market to use your services, so it’s twice as pleasing when a company like this returns to you. This is real proof of the quality and reliability of AHML’s infrastructure services. We always aim to provide maximum effectiveness as well as a customised approach for long standing partners and also new clients. AHML’s role in the deal as back-up service agent has a positive impact on the cost efficiency of the deal on the whole, and also on the opportunity to receive the top rating for the senior tranche. Consequently, this increases the popularity of the mortgage-backed securities among investors. We are certain that further cooperation with Bank URALSIB will be equally successful and productive,” commented Iriada Shtyrova, Director of the Department for Developing Master Service Facilities and Infrastructure at AHML.

“In the off balance sheet deal to securitise the mortgage loan portfolio we participated in the VEB Capital programme to purchase the senior tranches,” commented Alexey Ashurkov, Chief Executive Officer, Head of the Chief Executive Directorate for Retail Business at Bank URALSIB. “OJSC URALSIB, LLC URALSIB Capital and Sberbank CIB participated in the deal as organisers; Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners was the legal consultant; and AHML was back-up servicer and settlement agent for the deal. These are competent and reliable partners who deliver services of the highest quality. With this in mind we had no doubts that the deal would be successful. We were able to achieve all our planned results. I consider that this partnership structure can be effectively used in future deals.”

“The deal was structured in accordance with Vnesheconombank’s programme, which aims to promote mortgage lending and make it more affordable. Given the current market situation, the refinancing was provided under extremely beneficial conditions for the originator,” commented Tengiz Kaladze, Director, Head of Securitisation, Investment Banking Department, Sberbank CIB.