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  • Industry trade groups and market players are said to be meeting with administration and regulatory officials to assure that the final version of the qualified-mortgage rule of the Dodd-Frank Act will help fuel competition.
  • UBS has lost its bid to have dismissed a lawsuit filed against it by the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, charging that the Swiss bank and 17 other financial institutions violated federal law in their selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the FHFA regulate.
  • Clopton Capital, a Chicago-based secondary market commercial real estate lender, has expanded its non-recourse commercial mortgage-backed securities loan options to the hospitality sector.
  • Broker-dealer firm The PrinceRidge Group has added five directors to sales and trading positions to its mortgage-backed securities division; part of a recent expansion of the group led by senior managing director and head of U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities Barry Berkeley, who joined the firm from Sterne Agee & Leach in January.
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    Commodities trading company Trafigura used securitisation to raise funding by collateralising invoices for shipments of oil, metals and coal in a deal that could be copied as other firms in the industry seek new financing.
  • Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Jefferies & Company are preparing to launch GSMS 2012-GCJ7, an approximately $1 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities deal, and could price the offering by as early as next week.
  • Goldman Sachs has priced GSMS 2012-Aloha, a $1.4 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities deal backed by the high-end Ala Moan mall in Honolulu, wide of guidance on the AAA bonds, but as much as 65 bps tighter further down the stack.
  • Investor concerns over potential conflicts of interest special servicing of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities continues to simmer regarding issues of affiliate fees, servicer compensations and fair value purchase options, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
  • Officials at Skipton Building Society, which has priced its sophomore residential mortgage-backed securities trade Darrowby No. 2, say the major benefit of its securitization program is that it can issue higher-rated securities than in the covered bond market.