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  • A difference of opinion on payment protection meant Bank of America Merrill Lynch priced three of the four tranches of its Taurus trade wide of guidance last week. But the demand on show in the first public European CMBS of the year was enough to suggest 2015 issuance could beat the mark set in 2014.
  • Sandler O’Neil & Partners have hired CMBS traders David Cook and Andrew Flick from Brean Capital. The pair will focus on building a CMBS franchise at Sandler O’Neil, the investment bank said in a release on Monday.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch priced its private equity sponsored Taurus CMBS this week, the second transaction backed by Italian assets already this year. Bankers expect that tightening yields on more mainstream products will have a positive impact on the CMBS market in the coming months.
  • Société Générale is taking advantage of Royal Bank of Scotland’s retreat from US securitization to launch a new CMBS platform, its first in the US since the financial crisis.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has issued price guidance on its private equity sponsored Taurus CMBS, which will be the second transaction backed by Italian assets already this year. Bankers expect tightening yields on more mainstream products will have a positive impact on the CMBS market in the coming months.
  • Banca IMI and Cairn Capital priced and issued the first European CMBS transaction of the year this week, with the deal being used to refinance a luxury fashion complex in Milan.
  • Shariah compliant lender Gatehouse Bank this week began a roadshow for its first commercial rental backed security (CRBS). The bank created the new Shariah compliant structure to break into the recovering European CMBS market, and the collateral features on the new product could eventually allow tighter pricing than conventional CMBS, a senior Gatehouse banker told GlobalCapital.
  • The Securities & Exchange Commission’s decision to suspend Standard & Poor's from rating conduit fusion CMBS deals for one year may seem dramatic, but will have little effect on issuers and investors. Market participants have already adapted to life without the ratings agency, which has seen its market share drop by a factor of 10 since 2007.
  • Shariah compliant lender Gatehouse Bank kicked off a roadshow on Monday for its first commercial rental backed security (CRBS). The bank created the new Shariah compliant structure in order to break into the recovering European CMBS market, and the collateral features on the new product could eventually allow tighter pricing than conventional CMBS, a senior Gatehouse banker told GlobalCapital.