How music ABS is reshaping the catalog market w/ Paul Sipio

Music ABS is changing how serious capital moves through the music rights market.

In this episode, Paul Sipio, Managing Director at Apollo, explains how music went from a niche alternative asset to something institutional investors can underwrite, structure and finance at scale.

We discuss the catalysts behind that shift, from streaming growth and public market validation to the rise of scaled, diversified catalogs. Paul also takes us inside Apollo’s work with Concord, and how creative ABS structures can give music companies more than a lower cost of capital.

The conversation gets into why repeatable financing platforms matter, how they can support faster acquisition execution, and what funds need to have in place before they can access institutional capital.

This episode follows the release of Standard Innovation’s new whitepaper, Music ABS and Institutional Readiness, which is available here: https://standard-innovation.com/guides/music-abs-and-institutional-readiness

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Guests: Paul Sipio, Managing Director, Apollo

Hosts: Tom Mullen and Emma Griffiths, Standard Innovation

Theme: “Meet Me” — Outlines (Written by Sam Cox) — Courtesy of Bespoke Records