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Peterson Frederick

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Peterson Frederick is Chairman and Interim CEO of Northern Providence Investments (NPI), a Montreal-based asset management firm. He structures non-securitisation, single-tranche ABS transactions across UK and EU markets. Email: peterson.frederick@northernprovidence.com

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The independent director myth: structured finance’s most convenient governance fiction

This In Practice article argues that the standard practice of corporate services providers routinely appointing their own personnel as “independent” directors of special purpose vehicles constitutes a persistent unexamined structural conflict of interest.

24 OCT 2026