Pepper Group (Pepper) introduced US dollars to its I-Prime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) programme with its latest transaction, I-Prime 2018-2. The issuer tells KangaNews the move is designed to continue to diversify its investor base, given the scale of its funding need.
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