In securitisation transactions, the personal data of borrowers or lessees is typically held by the originator or servicer. In the case of a notification event, the data is released to the SPV or the security trustee. This process requires actions from the party holding the personal data, but if the originator or servicer defaults and consequently fails to release the personal data, it could become necessary to rely on a third party.
Often securitisation transactions will have a mechanism in place
allowing the delivery of personal data to independent third
parties. Personal data may be held by an escrow agent, which can
either be a civil-law notary or a data trustee, in line with an
escrow agreement between the escrow agent, SPV and the originator
or the servicer. Alternatively, growing in popularity to comply
with GDPR, it is also possible for the originator or servicer to
deliver personal data in encrypted form to the SPV and deposit a
corresponding decryption key with a data trustee in accordance with
a data trust agreement.
As an independent, non-conflicted provider of a wide range of
capital markets services, we act as data trustee in many of our
clients' transactions, including public and private
securitisations by international automotive companies and mortgage
lenders. In providing our data trustee services, we offer our
clients a robust operational process with strict segregation of
access, secured IT environment and procedures tailored to the
specific needs of the transaction.
Please do get in touch to find out more about our data trustee
services.
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