Post-deal insights: Pepper's latest RMBS opens the offshore investor door wider

Pepper Group (Pepper) included the longest-dated foreign-currency tranche in an Australian-origin residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) deal since the financial crisis in the deal it priced on October 6. The issuer and its arranger say doing so helped attract new global investors to Pepper, while the deal structure helped overcome the sometimes punitive cost of cross-currency swaps on securitisation deals.