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  • Fitch Ratings is calling attention to a number of recent changes in the ownership, management and strategic direction of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities special servicers.
  • The assets backing the loan securitized in the stalled Opera Finance (Uni-Invest) Dutch commercial mortgage-backed securitization have attracted six bids in the initial phase of an auction process launched by special servicer Eurohypo last month.
  • UBS has hired search firm Egon Zehnder to search for a new ceo.
  • A zero-interest rate program inked last year to help struggling homeowners make mortgage payments has lent only half of the $1 billion Congress awarded it under the Dodd-Frank Act.
  • Deutsche Bank has launched the first floating-rate commercial mortgage-backed securitization since 2007 and JPMorgan is readying a similar offering.
  • Covered bond issuers in Europe are mulling a switch to residential mortgage-backed securities as the sovereign debt crisis bears down on the region’s banks, sparking downgrades in the Euro-zone and rattling investors in the more than EUR2.5 trillion ($3.4 trillion) covered bond sector.
  • StormHarbour Securities has hired Paulo Gray as a principal and managing director in London, where he will head fixed income sales and trading, structuring and advisory, and capital markets for the Iberian region.
  • The agency residential mortgage-backed securities market is expected to continue widening on fears that the Federal Reserve’s recent actions could be coordinated with a large-scale refinancing program, Credit Suisse’s RMBS strategy team said in a note.
  • Certain core assets in the European securitization market have increasingly become a buy-and-hold play for investors recently, with relatively stable spread levels leading to an exit of so-called “fast money” participants who heavily traded bonds during the 2007-08 crisis to capitalize on volatile spreads.