Filed under bankruptcy-isolation
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- § 01 · DATA-ECONOMY
What a 'Data-Asset ABS' Actually Securitises — The Collateral Is Data, the Cash Flow Is Not
The name misleads. A Chinese 'data-asset ABS' (数据资产证券化) is labelled as such when data-pledged collateral exceeds 50% of the asset pool — but the underlying assets that actually generate the repayment cash flow are conventional financial claims: supply-chain receivables, trust-loan beneficiary rights, or finance-lease claims. Data is the collateral, the credit-enhancement, or the pricing-and-monitoring tool — not the cash-flow source. This brief, the second in DCC's data-asset-ABS series, unpacks the mechanism overseas counsel need to price the risk: the four live deal structures (trust-loan, receivables, finance-lease, data-empowerment); the difference between accounting recognition (入表) and legal right-confirmation (确权); and the four legal infirmities that make these deals fragile — unsettled data property rights, the true-sale problem created by data's non-exclusivity, the limits of bankruptcy isolation when asset value depends on the originator's continued operation, and the PIPL/DSL eligibility gates. It reads the flagship deals (平安-如皋, 华鑫-鑫欣, 青岛, 杭州高新金投) for what each actually did.