July 2008
Beginner
384 pages
9h 52m
English
Content preview from Introduction to Securitization
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ROLE OF TRUSTEES IN OPERATION OF THE TRANSACTION
The role of trustees in securitization transactions is far from standardized. The institution of trustees comes up for purely logistical reasons or to comply with legal requirements, but investors seem to place increasing reliance on the trustees.
The legal role of trustees is to act as a single window conduit for the investors. Trustees hold the legal title over the assets or the securities in trust for the investors. They enforce all covenants on the part of the contracting parties, and ensure that the servicer is performing his duties as per contract. The trustees would seek a noteholders’ vote in exceptional circumstances.
In addition, the traditional role of the trustees includes acting as authenticating agent, registrar, transfer agent, asset and account custodian and analytics provider, in addition to holding legal or security interest on the assets. These responsibilities can be expanded or reduced by a trust deed. Sometimes, trustees may get involved in actual operations and provide services as backup servicers. But trustees taking over the role of servicers may raise issues of conflict of interest.
Like most other spheres of activity, technology is fast entering to make trustees’ discharge of duties more efficient. Tadie (2005) mentions how technology is assisting trustees in better discharge of trustee functions:
• Covenant maintenance. An automated electronic ticker system enables periodic reviews of an asset-backed ...
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