Understanding synthetic risk transfers: The financial tool reshaping real estate lending
Update: 2025-10-28
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In this special episode, the team explores how synthetic risk transfers, a financial tool used by banks to help them free up capacity for more lending, are growing in real estate.
Join Real Estate Capital Europe editor Daniel Cunningham and deputy editor Lucy Scott as they discuss why an increasing number of real estate lenders – and real estate managers – are engaging in SRT trades, a topic also explored in REC Europe's deep dive here.
This episode comes as Aareal Bank confirms its first SRT trade, linked to a €2 billion portfolio of performing European commercial real estate loans.
Also read:
- Real Estate Capital Europe: Deep dive: How synthetic risk transfers are bringing banks and non-banks together
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