On the latest episode of the Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with another member of the PCS team, Harry Noutsos, the Chief Transformation Officer.

Of all the podcast guests so far, Harry has one of the longest and most varied careers, beginning his career as a research analyst at Credit Suisse before moving onto modelling. He then worked for Bank of America in structuring and origination, and held similar but more senior roles at Santander.

In 2011, he joined ING's treasury team to become Head of ABS and part of a core team responsible for over €100bn of the liquidity portfolio of the bank, before finally joining PCS in 2021.

With such a fascinating career journey, this episode explored the skills that Harry developed to become a leader in structured finance and how the attitude of continuous learning has shaped him as a person.

In the latest edition of the Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with two shipping experts: James Lightbourn, Founder of Cavalier Shipping, and Stefan Augustin, Head of Relationship Management EU at ARC Ratings.

Discussing shipping securitization on a structured finance podcast is somewhat unusual, not least because as of yet there isn’t really a shipping securitization market. There are precisely zero outstanding public transactions, and just a handful of private deals.

However, in this episode Lightbourn and Augustin explain why the prospect of shipping securitization could be crucial to the sector as it goes through the journey of refinancing and renovating the worldwide shipping fleet over the coming years.

In the latest episode of The Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with European securitization’s regulation and politics guru, Ian Bell, the CEO of PCS.

With reform of the securitization framework now well underway, there was lots to chew over including the EU Parliament’s ECON hearing on the reforms, where a number of trade associations put forward their views.

Bell also discussed the role PCS plays in the market as an educational force, bringing securitization conferences (or Symposia) to all corners of Europe.

And lastly, he spoke about why after over a decade he decided to make a career change away from law and into the world of rating agencies and policymaking.

On the latest episode of the Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with Owain Chambers, Director of Capital Markets at Lenvi – the UK fintech which provides a range of servicing and risk management solutions in the capital markets.

The pair discussed the year so far, and explored which new asset classes could be seen in the market in the coming months. They also looked at the continuing interest in green financing products like solar ABS and heat pump securitizations.

Finally Owain also discussed Lenvi’s report on housing in the UK, called The Generation Gap, which amongst other things, looked at the rising appetite for equity release mortgages and securitizations of those products.

On the latest episode of the Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with Natwest Market’s Owen Muller, Head of Securitized Products and Alternative Syndicate.

They discussed the year in ABS so far, alongside the maturation of the SRT market, the notable lack of UK supply, and what life is really like working on the syndicate desk in securitization.

Owen also discussed his own career journey, where he began as a graduate at Natwest, while offering advice for young banking graduates looking to make their way in the industry.

On the latest episode of The Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon sat down with Maria Lehtimäki, Partner and head of structured finance at Waselius, one of Finland’s leading law firms.

Maria has built her career as a pioneer in Finnish securitization law, and brings deep expertise in structured finance across the Nordic region.

The podcast explored Maria’s long and winding road into securitization, the development of both the Finnish and wider Nordic markets, and how regulation and policymaker attitudes in Europe are shifting in ways that will shape the next decade of structured finance.

Tom and Maria also looked ahead to the possibilities for esoteric asset classes in the Nordics—ranging from data centers to snowmobiles—and what makes these markets uniquely positioned for innovation.

Finally, Maria shared her thoughts on the personal and professional qualities that make for a great lawyer, offering insights not only for legal practitioners but for anyone navigating complex financial and regulatory environments.

In this week’s episode of The Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon spoke to Daniel Ezra, CEO of Entegra – a Trading as a Service (Taas) provider, specializing in structured products.

Graduating from Harvard in 1998, Ezra joined Credit Suisse’s non-agency RMBS trading desk and went on to spend over 26 years at the bank where he eventually became Global Head of Securitized Products Trading. In the throes of the 2008 global financial crisis, Ezra’s team was one of the few departments that achieved profitability, while he also pioneered the MASCOT (Modifiable and Splittable or Combinable Tranches) structure in CLOs.

After Credit Suisse’s collapse, Ezra founded Entegra with the aim of reinvigorating the trading function for banks. And in this podcast, he discussed how Entegra works, why structured finance needs a better trading function, and shared the most crucial bits of wisdom he’s acquired in his near 30-year career.

In this week’s episode of The Freshly Squeezed Podcast, host Tom Lemmon spoke to Sebastian Oebels, counsel at Hogan Lovells, based in their structured finance team in Frankfurt, Germany.

Few people in the industry have the same passion for their work as Oebels, and that was evident as he spoke. A lot of ground was covered inside the 30 minutes, including:

• Oebels’ career journey
• What makes a good structured finance lawyer
• The growth and expansion of the German securitization market
• And, how regulatory reform could further develop the European markets

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