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Deals at the double as mall-backed issuance creeps up
Sponsors also inject $35m of equity
UBS headquarters among deals in enthusiastic SASB market
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The Basel Committee has proposed tweaks to its securitization rules to ease non-performing loan sales — but it hasn’t gone as far as market participants would like, and has rowed back from proposals tabled by the European Banking Authority last October, which would have cut capital requirements much further. -
Thai conglomerate DTGO Corporation has injected £17.5m ($21.72m) of equity for its hotel-backed Magenta CMBS in exchange for default waivers, propping up the deal for the next six months until the Covid-19 pandemic hopefully subsides.
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Reforms to personal bankruptcy regimes in various countries along the lines of the US Chapter 13 code could improve non-performing loan (NPL) markets by boosting transparency and certainty, according to Charles Rusbasan, chief executive of Balbec Capital, which has just raised a new $1.2bn fund to buy NPLs where borrowers are subject to insolvency proceedings, restructuring or other forms of distress.
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Loans packaged into US commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) delinquent by 30 days or more have quadrupled, according to remittance reports published in May, as the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the financial system. Market participants fear record levels of distress if borrowers that are now in their grace periods add to the figures in the coming month, writes Max Adams.
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CMBS issuers have come back to market in recent weeks, bringing deals structured to entice investors with features meant to withstand the shocks of the pandemic. But investors say that there are still concerns around adding exposure to commercial mortgages written before the crisis.
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New ABS contracts are being written to exclude pandemics from the scope of ‘force majeure’ clauses, inserted to allow servicers to step away from their commitments if events outside of their control – such as the outbreak of Covid-19 – stop them from servicing portfolios.
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The fallout from the Covid-19 crisis has touched nearly every economic and employment sector, from the largest corporations to the smallest businesses. The pain has prompted an unprecedented policy response aimed at rescuing economies and markets, and further measures are likely to come. US commercial real estate has been especially impacted, with commercial mortgage lending slowing dramatically, already struggling retailers going dark across the country and a likely rethinking of the use of space following a nationwide experiment in working from home.
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A conduit CMBS deal from Goldman Sachs in the market this week is drawing strong demand from investors eager to buy the first new commercial mortgage bonds in nearly two months, while Morgan Stanley is looking to draw buyers for a Los Angeles office CMBS with some unique protections.
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Ratings issued on Monday for a conduit CMBS deal from Goldman Sachs show that the bank is preparing to re-enter the market, bringing a $771.8m deal built to withstand some of the risks posed to commercial real estate by the coronavirus pandemic.
