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TwentyFour priced its Dutch prime RMBS refi, Blackstone its sterling logistics CMBS
Blackstone is aiming to execute its CMBS before the market shuts for Global ABS
Second large office CMBS in quick succession after The Soloviev Group sold a $1.7bn New York office CMBS last week
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.