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  • Investors pushed back this week against the largest loan in COMM 2015-CCRE26, forcing lead issuers Deutsche Bank and Cantor Commercial Real Estate to widen spreads twice from guidance before being able to price the deal on Wednesday.
  • A long awaited multi-jurisdictional CMBS from Bank of America Merrill Lynch was priced in line with expectations on Wednesday but perception of the deal's success was mixed.
  • The single family rental arms of Colony Capital and Starwood Capital Group announced on Monday plans to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction that will bring over 30,000 homes under the group’s collective management.
  • Financial crisis hindsight has been a favorite topic of discussion at ABS industry events since, well, the financial crisis. “Where did we go wrong?”, “How could we have known?”, “The market had never seen a widespread default in etc. etc.”
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has circulated initial price thoughts on its €177m Taurus 2015-3 DAC CMBS deal, the securitization of two loans to Starwood Capital’s MStar Europe commercial real estate joint venture with M7 Real Estate.
  • Last month Moody’s Investors Service announced it would be taking comments on a proposal to loosen its criteria for rating single borrower CMBS. Let's hope this is not part of a ratings race to the bottom.
  • Ratings on CMBS conduit deals have been a big talking point in 2015, and Standard and Poor’s is set to wade back into the market at a time observers say is a low point in the current cycle for CMBS loan underwriting.
  • Investors in both CMBS primary and secondary markets are bracing themselves for a glut of issuance this month, as numerous factors are conspiring to potentially drive spreads out further from two-year wides seen in August.
  • Bank of America and UBS priced BACM 2015-UBS7 Monday afternoon, just ahead of the launch of Citi and Goldman Sachs’ CGCMT 2015-GC33, though investors say the considerable difference in the pricing of the deals’ super senior triple-A bonds failed to provide a hint on where spreads may head for the rest of the month.