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Single asset, single borrower deals drove the US CMBS market in 2025, particularly on New York City collateral as office attendance rose. With interest rates predicted to fall further in 2026, market participants are looking forward to a greater variety of deals on commercial real estate from other cities and sectors, writes Pooja Sarkar
The conditions are set so that 2026 promises to be even better than the already impressive 2025. A deepening of esoteric asset classes, combined with entirely new deal types, as well as more debut issuers are set to be the key themes, writes Tom Hall
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Senegal and Cameroon mandated banks this week to bring them back to the debt capital markets. Despite wide uncertainty about African sovereign debt restructuring, market participants said credit conditions were conducive to issuance. -
The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has released its hotly anticipated report on European securitization. But market participants are calling it a missed opportunity, pointing out that it fails to address recommendations made by the High Level Forum on the Capital Markets Union to develop the market.
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Mars Capital, now a subsidiary of Arrow Global, has probably sold controlling positions in two Irish reperforming loan portfolios, securitized in RMBS transactions Grand Canal 1 and 2, with the Grand Canal 1 portfolio rapidly returning to the market in a Morgan Stanley-backed deal announced on Wednesday. The move comes as TDR Capital’s bid for Arrow heats up, with shareholders now ready to vote on approval.
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Goldman Sachs has launched a multi-borrower CMBS backed by office buildings in Austria, Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Around half of the deal funds a portfolio that Fortress recently bought from Stena AB’s real estate arm.
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Israeli investor Amir Dayan is injecting more financing into a hotel-backed CMBS made up of 17 Holiday Inn and three Crowne Plaza hotels distributed across the UK, as the government toys with opening up the country’s tourism sector.
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With the UK opening up high street retail on Monday, investors are said to be eyeing retail real estate for opportunities. But the market, hit hard by the pandemic, will be slow to recover – with Newcastle’s Metrocentre becoming a prominent example of the future for shopping centres after the pandemic.
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Development banks across the world — and especially those in Africa — have proven to be indispensable sources of relief during the last year. Though Africa has a wealth of challenges to economic recovery, the West African Development Bank, also known as Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (BOAD), has high ambitions for the year ahead. The bank’s president Serge Ekué spoke to GlobalCapital about these ambitions, including an imminent capital raise.
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The Republic of Ghana brought innovation to the emerging market bonds this week, by selling Africa’s first zero coupon international deal. But the “risky” trade ignited debate among bankers and investors after it attracted a smaller order book than expected and required generous pricing as debt sustainability concerns swirled.
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The European securitization market is seeing a faster pace of ESG deals but it needs to find more ESG-friendly assets before it can expect much more issuance. Peter Winning, portfolio manager and analyst in BlackRock's EMEA ABS team, spoke with GlobalCapital to outline how the world’s largest asset manager invests in ESG securitizations.
