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Europe’s real estate loan servicing industry is ripe for technological transformation. That is the view of Vishal Soni, co-founder of London-based Oxane Partners, which provides services across private markets investments.

Real estate fundraising and deal activity is inching back to normal, though not back to the pre-pandemic levels just yet, as per Preqin’s latest quarterly real estate report. The raft of disruptions wrought by the covid-19 pandemic has significantly altered attitude towards operational preparedness. As challenges to run the business smoothly unfolded in the wake of the pandemic, it became evident that a ready technology and operational infrastructure distinguished investment managers who were just impacted from those who were completely disrupted.

Private credit has emerged as one of the most promising asset classes within alternative investments in recent years. Kanav Kalia, chief sales and marketing officer at Oxane Partners, a technology-driven solutions provider to the private markets and winner of this year’s Best Portfolio Management System award at AltCredit European Awards 2021, explains how laying the right data and technology foundation is the cornerstone of building and managing private credit investments

Oxane Partners (Oxane), a technology-driven solutions provider to private markets, has signed two more clients, AllianceBernstein and Edmond de Rothschild REIM, for its Loan Servicing 2.0 offering. Earlier this year, Oxane won multiple mandates to act as facility agent and security agent on real estate and maritime loans, signing up with three real estate lenders, a global bank and an alternative investment firm.

Oxane Partners, a technology-driven solutions provider to private markets, has expanded the coverage of its solutions to cater to a wider range of credit asset classes. Since starting operations in 2013, Oxane has gradually broadened its offerings to now become a one-stop solution provider supporting banks and investment firms to analyze and better manage their private markets investments.

Investor expectations and regulatory imperatives are driving a renewed focus on ESG considerations in the private markets. Investment managers are increasingly realizing that integrating ESG considerations in their operating model is a value creation opportunity, not a compliance burden. Technology holds the key to embedding ESG considerations meticulously throughout the investment lifecycle.

Private debt has become increasingly attractive for investors looking to grow their credit allocations and searching for higher yields. As deal structures become more complex, it is imperative for portfolio managers to evolve their portfolio management, data workflows and risk management systems if they are to continue to grow with agility.

Oxane Partners, a technology-driven solutions provider to private markets, has signed three bulge bracket investment banks across the US and Europe for its illiquid credit portfolio management solution – Oxane Panorama. With more than USD200 billion of notional hosted on Oxane’s platforms, Oxane is at the forefront of the digitalisation drive in the private markets space.

The predominant challenge in managing global illiquid credit portfolios lies in addressing varied needs across trading desks, with each desk having distinct deal structures, data sources, workflows and reporting metrics. Kanav Kalia, chief sales and marketing officer at Oxane Partners reflects on how global banks are activating digitalisation projects to tackle the growing complexity in illiquid credit investments.

Greece's systemic banks had been on course to dispose of around €30bn of NPLs in 2020 before COVID-19 put proceedings on hold. The deal flow is now expected to pick up only by the end of 2021, but the broad-based disruption caused by COVID-19, impacting industries across the spectrum, means the upcoming NPL pools will have a higher exposure to SMEs assets than in historical portfolios.

Credit analytics firm Oxane Partners has started a new business catering to the needs of CLO warehouse lenders, say officials at the company. Banks have been monitoring their warehouse exposures since March when the coronavirus pandemic caused loan prices to plummet into the 70s. This triggered draw stops, causing warehouses to freeze until valuations rose.

With the growing interest and increasing allocation from institutional investors towards alternative investments, fund managers are now grappling with increasing investor demands, tightening regulations and growing cost pressures. Sumit Gupta, co-founder at Oxane Partners, reflects on the evolution of alternative credit, the strategic and operational goals for investment managers, and how they are preparing for the post-Covid-19 world.

Before the COVID-19 crisis, investment markets were already in a complex state. After four months of forced economic hibernation, societal lockdowns, staggered re-openings and pandemic relapses, the environment is now even more convoluted leading to changing investment strategies and increase in technology adoption.

Infrastructure GPs have traditionally been conservative with regard to technology, but the pandemic has forced GPs to change their approach, for the better, on investment management technology.

Private markets investors are preparing themselves for a shift into distressed debt, with more than 70% of investors having a favourable investment outlook towards the asset class according to a survey of more than 120 investment professionals by Oxane Partners.

Private markets investors are preparing themselves for a shift into distressed debt as disruption from the coronavirus pandemic causes investors to change tack to weather the storm, new research shows.

Wireless applications powered by 5G networks have far-reaching implications for just about every part of the economy. But what are the applications and opportunities for the real estate sector in general and real estate investment management in particular?

Earlier this year, Oxane Partners, a leading technology-driven solutions provider to the real estate industry, announced its expansion into loan servicing followed by the firm being rated by DBRS Morningstar as a commercial mortgage servicer. Vishal Soni, the firm’s co-founder talks about this expansion and plans for the future with REFI Europe.

Oxane has appointed Andrew Tisdall as director, portfolio management solutions, to expand its newly launched loan servicing business. Tisdall will be tasked with growing the firm’s the portfolio management business by leveraging its technology platform.

Oxane Partners has expanded into the loan servicing market after securing the ranking as a commercial mortgage servicer. The technology-focused real estate solutions provider - which was founded by former employees of Deutsche Bank six years ago - gained the MOR CS3 ranking from DBRS Morningstar.

Stocks of non-performing loans (NPL) in the European Union banking sector continued their steady march downwards in 2019. Nevertheless, 2020 promises to be very busy, and Greek systemic banks look set to lead the charge with multi-billion-euro 'mega deals'.

Traditional lenders are feeling the heat from the new lending platforms and won't be able to compete on returns if the competition has invested in systems that streamline their businesses.

Approximately half the UK and European real estate debt industry is still reliant on Microsoft Excel for their work processes, despite awareness on its diminishing utility, a survey by Oxane Partners reveals.

The real estate investment industry's tryst with technology has been limited to standalone systems for stop-gap measures without regard for interoperability or scalability. Investment firms still have an over reliance on the age-old alternative, Microsoft Excel.

Real estate investors are facing tough market conditions in an environment plagued by geo-political risks, trade wars and rising interest rates. There has been a growing industry consensus about the current real estate cycle in Europe coming to an end soon.

Oxane Partners, a technology-driven solutions provider to the alternative investments industry, today announced signing long term engagements with four New York based firms in the last six months, strengthening its foothold in the US market.

Structured-product analytics shop Oxane Partners is gaining traction in the U.S. The 5-year-old firm, which initially focused on Europe, has picked up four clients in New York in the past six months.

We are pleased to share that Oxane Partners has been featured in the 'Top 10 PropTech Companies' to watch in Firestarters, a PropertyEU publication. Our Commercial Real Estate solution, Oxane CREST, has been recognized as one of its kind that's transforming the way real estate deals are screened, analyzed and managed.

Oxane Partners, a solutions provider to the real estate and alternative investments industry, has appointed Yousuf Attarwala to the newly created role of Head of Loan Servicing. Attarwala will be based out of Oxane’s London office.

The ECB's latest non-performing loan provisioning guidelines are expected to trigger increased synthetic NPL securitisation issuance. Nevertheless, defining a credit event for a portfolio of loans that are already non-performing remains a significant challenge.

European NPL transactions to see sustained flow in 2018 as regulatory initiatives and increased investor interest fuels supply and demand.

Oxane Partners has emerged as one of the foremost valuations specialists in the NPL market. The firm has analysed numerous loan books on behalf of fund managers over the past three years where Oxane is winning an increasing number of mandates.

PropertyEU's FinanceWatch profiles Oxane Partners on how we are leveraging technology and data to improve processes across the entire CRE investment lifecycle, for both equity and debt investors.

Technology’s impact on commercial real estate (CRE) financing markets is, so far, embryonic. But the signposts for change are unmistakable. There are at least four identifiable and intertwined trends driving an inevitable digital transformation of CRE financing markets.

Distressed funds set up in the wake of the 2007-2008 crisis are looking for fresh avenues and better returns and are therefore looking to NPL opportunities in Europe.

Oxane Partners, a startup that helps investors analyze structured products and loan pools, is opening a U.S. office. The New York outpost would be led by an unnamed partner who is slated to arrive late this year or early next year.

They were the bank assets nobody would touch during Europe's financial crisis. Late payments on credit cards, underwate mortgages and failed loans to small businesses. Now everybody wants them. The number of funds in the region's distresses debt market doubled to 200 in the past two years.

Two former Deutsche Bank structured credit officials are building a new business in which they propose to take on a host of tasks normally undertaken by dealers on behalf of buy-side firms. The new venture, named Oxane Partners, has been set-up by structuring specialist.