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2026 Agenda

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Day 1: Big Ideas Stage!
Day one will now be plenary-only, featuring our 'Big Ideas' stage. This will be a day dedicated to senior-led and high-level discussions on the markets most current and pressing topics. 

Day 2: Market Deep-Dives
Day two will now be split fully in to our thematic track sessions, allowing deeper dives in to specific markets and market specifics. 

Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
Track B: Mortgage Credit
Track C: Asset-Backed (S/F/L)

Day 3: Technology & Innovation Summit
Day three now features our 'technology & innovation' summit - a half day dedicated to all things AI, Datacenters, Tokenization, Data and Analytics, and more. 

Download a PDF version of the agenda here. 

Your 2026 Social Agenda...

Sunday - Hit the Ground Running!
12pm to 7pm: Collect your badge and beat the Monday morning queues
1pm to 5pm: Meeting Rooms Open (Lead-level Sponsors Only)
5pm to 6:30pm: Join for our Welcome Reception on the Ocean Lawn

Community Networking Events
*See agenda for full details. 

Sunday 4-5pm: 'First Timer' Networking Event 

Monday 8-9am: Women in Structured Finance Networking Breakfast

Tuesday 8-9am: Investor Networking Breakfast, with FIIN

Wednesday 10 am to 12:30pm: Junior Leaders Forum: 50 under 30 Club

Note: Space is limited across all community events and pre-signup is required.
*Non-attendance after registration may impact future attendance ability. 

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12:00 PM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    420 mins
1:00 PM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    240 mins
    Lead-Level Sponsors Only
4:00 PM
  1. Ocean Lawn
    60 mins
    • Networking
    Join peers who are also making this thier first ABS East appearance for a networking reception before the masses descend, and talk to our team about the best tip and tricks for navigating your first A ...
5:00 PM
  1. Ocean Lawn
    90 mins
    • Networking
7:30 AM
  1. Fontainebleau
    90 mins
8:00 AM
  1. Ocean Lawn
    60 mins
    • Networking
    More Than a Mentor: The Power of Advocacy A mentor offers advice, guidance and support when asked; an advocate goes a step further by mentioning your name when you are not in the room, putting you for ...
9:00 AM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    10 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    The official welcome to the 32nd annual ABS East. Join the FT Live and FIIN Team as we set the scene for this year's conference and take part in industry polling as we take a look at this time last ye ...
9:10 AM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    30 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
10:30 AM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    30 mins
    • Networking
11:00 AM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    30 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    Join our leading journalists for a series of focused conversations with a standout line-up of senior industry figures, market innovators and influential decision-makers from across structured finance ...
11:30 AM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    20 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    Join our leading journalists for a series of focused conversations with a standout line-up of senior industry figures, market innovators and influential decision-makers from across structured finance ...
11:50 AM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    20 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    Join our leading journalists for a series of focused conversations with a standout line-up of senior industry figures, market innovators and influential decision-makers from across structured finance ...
12:10 PM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    20 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    Join our leading journalists for a series of focused conversations with a standout line-up of senior industry figures, market innovators and influential decision-makers from across structured finance ...
12:30 PM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    90 mins
    • Networking
3:20 PM
  1. Coral Ballroom
    50 mins
    • Plenary & Keynote
    As banks, private credit funds, insurers, specialty finance companies, and securitisation markets increasingly share responsibility for funding the economy, the traditional lending model is undergoing ...
5:00 PM
  1. Luster Gallerie
    60 mins
    • Networking
9:00 AM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    Assessing the state of the BSL CLO market as managers navigate compressed arbitrage, evolving liability costs, and shifting leveraged loan market dynamics. Exploring liability spreads, warehouse econo ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    Exploring the rise of infrastructure and project finance CLOs, including portfolio construction, underwriting considerations, structural features, and investor demand. Examining opportunities across p ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    Whole-business securitisations are expanding beyond established franchise models into a wider range of operating platforms and recurring-revenue businesses. Examining brand strength, unit economics, f ...
9:45 AM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    As private credit CLO issuance continues to scale, examining the structural, underwriting, and execution differences separating middle-market transactions from their BSL counterparts. Exploring manage ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    As demand for data centres, fibre networks and digital capacity grows, lenders and investors are focusing more closely on the risks within individual transactions. Examining construction and long-term ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    Music catalogues, media rights, licensing revenues and legal claims are attracting institutional capital through structures built around intangible and often highly idiosyncratic cashflows. Exploring ...
10:30 AM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    30 mins
    • Networking
11:00 AM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    As liability-management exercises, distressed exchanges and amend-and-extend activity reshape the leveraged-loan market, CLO outcomes increasingly depend on documentation, creditor protections and man ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    Exploring relative value, issuance trends, and investor demand across the mortgage ecosystem as agency and non-agency markets continue to evolve. Examining mortgage spreads, capital flows, housing mar ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    As consumer budgets come under increasing pressure, understanding where unsecured obligations sit within the repayment hierarchy has become critical for lenders and investors alike. Exploring performa ...
11:45 AM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    Examining allocation strategies across CLO debt and equity as investors weigh risk, return, liquidity, and structural protection in an increasingly competitive market. Exploring relative value across ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    As private-label RMBS issuance continues to expand, Non-QM and Jumbo mortgages remain at the centre of market growth. Exploring origination trends, borrower profiles, underwriting standards, pricing d ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    Examining performance trends across prime and subprime auto ABS as affordability pressures, elevated vehicle prices, and evolving borrower behaviour continue to reshape the market. Exploring delinquen ...
12:30 PM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    Examining the lifecycle of a CLO from warehouse financing and portfolio ramp-up through refinancing, resets, reinvestment periods, and maturity management. Exploring execution considerations, liabilit ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    Examining the rapid expansion of home equity finance as borrowers seek liquidity without disturbing low-coupon first mortgages. Exploring issuance trends, collateral performance, prepayment behaviour, ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    As non-bank lenders continue to expand their role in consumer and commercial credit markets, funding and scalability have become defining competitive advantages. Exploring warehouse facilities, forwar ...
  4. Luster & Coastal
    120 mins
    • Networking
2:30 PM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    Examining the rise of CLO ETFs, expanding retail participation, evolving distribution models, enhanced transparency and reporting, and innovations in surveillance, analytics, and portfolio management. ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    As banks, GSEs, mortgage insurers, and reinsurers increasingly look to transfer credit exposure, mortgage risk transfer markets continue to expand and evolve. Exploring developments across agency CRT, ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    As banks continue to retrench from segments of the SME market, private capital and securitisation are playing an increasingly important role in funding business growth. Exploring developments across s ...
3:15 PM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    As private markets continue to expand, fund-level financing has become a critical source of liquidity and leverage across the investment lifecycle. Exploring developments in NAV lending, subscription ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    As affordability constraints and elevated mortgage rates continue to reshape housing demand, institutional ownership of rental housing remains a growing segment of the mortgage market. Examining issua ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    From equipment leases and fleet finance to aircraft, railcar, and container portfolios, commercial asset finance remains a core funding channel for the real economy. Exploring utilisation trends, leas ...
4:00 PM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    As private-market portfolios grow in scale and maturity, structured-finance techniques are increasingly being applied at the fund level. Exploring the development of collateralized fund obligations (C ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    As mortgage markets continue their transition from paper-based processes to digital infrastructure, operational efficiency is becoming a key differentiator across origination, servicing, and securitis ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    As residential energy finance continues to evolve, investors and issuers are reassessing the long-term outlook for solar, PACE, battery storage, and home efficiency assets. Exploring collateral perfor ...
4:45 PM
  1. Coral 1
    45 mins
    • Track A: CLOs & Fund Finance
    As asset managers seek to broaden institutional access to private markets, rated feeder structures are emerging as an increasingly important bridge between fund strategies and ratings-sensitive invest ...
  2. Coral 2
    45 mins
    • Track B: Mortgage Credit
    From transitional bridge loans financed through CRE CLOs to stabilised assets seeking permanent financing through CMBS, commercial real estate credit continues to face elevated refinancing costs, dela ...
  3. Coral 3
    45 mins
    • Track C: Asset-Backed
    As corporates seek efficient sources of liquidity and working capital, trade receivables and conduit finance continue to play a critical role in funding the real economy. Exploring developments across ...
5:00 PM
  1. Fontainebleau
    60 mins
  2. Coral Foyer
    60 mins
    • Networking
8:30 AM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    60 mins
    • Networking
9:20 AM
  1. Coral 1
    10 mins
    • Tech & Innovation
9:30 AM
  1. Coral 1
    30 mins
    • Tech & Innovation
    Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to implementation across financial markets. Exploring how AI is reshaping research, underwriting, risk management, surveillance, operatio ...
10:00 AM
  1. Coral 1
    30 mins
    • Tech & Innovation
    The growth of artificial intelligence is creating unprecedented demand for data centres, energy infrastructure, semiconductor capacity, and digital connectivity. Examining the physical foundations of ...
  2. Dune
    150 mins
    • Networking
    The AI Advantage – Thriving in the New World of Work Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the structured finance industry operates, reshaping day-to-day workflows, the skills firms value an ...
10:30 AM
  1. Luster & Coastal
    30 mins
    • Networking
11:00 AM
  1. Coral 1
    40 mins
    • Tech & Innovation Summit
    As data volumes continue to expand, the ability to extract meaningful insight is becoming a critical differentiator across financial markets. Exploring advances in analytics, surveillance, automation, ...
11:40 AM
  1. Coral 1
    40 mins
    • Tech & Innovation Summit
    From tokenised bonds and digital issuance platforms to real-world asset tokenisation and programmable cashflows, on-chain finance is beginning to move beyond proof-of-concept. Exploring where adoption ...
12:20 PM
  1. Coral 1
    40 mins
    • Tech & Innovation Summit
    As financial markets become increasingly digital, the infrastructure underpinning settlement, custody, identity, onboarding, and capital formation is being reimagined. Exploring how emerging technolog ...
1:00 PM
  1. Fontainebleau
    1 mins

 

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