Esteban Duarte

Deutsche Bank AG is tightening terms under which it provides loans for investors such as hedge funds to buy significant risk transfers.

A type of risky debt that has taken US capital markets by storm in the past year is now emerging in bonds designed to unlock hundreds of billions in lending for the world’s poorest.

Fortress Investment Group is seeking to raise about $1 billion for its latest fund in litigation finance, a sector in which it’s becoming a powerhouse, according to people familiar with the matter.

BNP Paribas SA increased the size of a corporate loan portfolio linked to a significant risk transfer for a second time, according to people familiar with the matter, providing the latest sign of growing investor demand for these transactions.

The European Central Bank is seeking clarity on how investors use borrowed money to buy significant risk transfers, as it tries to ensure the increasingly popular structure helps mitigate exposures rather than shift them across the banking sector.

Barbados has successfully completed a debt swap designed to generate $125 million in savings that it can use to make its water and sewage systems more resilient to climate change.

Rothschild & Co is advising Ivory Coast on a swap designed to help it refinance around €400 million ($420 million) of its costliest debt at terms that would generate savings for fiscal and social goals, according to people familiar with the matter.

ABN Amro Bank NV is offloading a portfolio of about €3 billion ($3.2 billion) of infrastructure loans, according to people familiar with the matter.

Commerzbank AG is working on a significant risk transfer amid an effort by Chief Executive Officer Bettina Orlopp to unlock capital.

GoldenTree Asset Management agreed to buy a portfolio equivalent to about €800 million ($872 million) of UK consumer loans from Bank of Ireland Group Plc, according to people familiar with the matter.