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  • Investors in 2006-vintage European commercial mortgage-backed securities deals are fearing greater losses as the underlying loans are approaching maturity and need to be refinanced.
  • Credit Suisse is expected to make deep cuts to its commercial mortgage group in the coming days as part of larger firm-wide layoffs.
  • Fort Lauderdale-based law firm Becker & Poliakoff has started a distressed property group in response to an increased number of workouts and related inquiries.
  • Fallen U.K. high street retailer Woolworths, which went into administration last week with around £385 million ($582 million) of debt, is a tenant in a number of U.K. commercial mortgage-backed securities deals, say Barclays Capital analysts.
  • Former Broadpoint Captial distressed structured products traders Viru Raparthi and Maneesh Awasthi have joined brokerage Newedge, a joint venture between Société Générale’s Fimat and Calyon Financial, to build up a synthetic and cash structured credit platform there.
  • Commercial mortgage-backed securities and other mortgage-related debt could eventually be some of the assets purchased under the Treasury Department’s expansion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
  • Commercial mortgage-backed securities spreads widened to unprecedented levels last week, with some AAA-rated bonds jumping to more than swaps plus 1,450 basis points.
  • Dynamic Credit Partners is investing some internal capital and encouraging advisory clients to invest in AAA-rated commercial mortgage-backed securities and senior tranches of collateralized debt obligations backed by residential mortgages, Jim Finkel, Dynamic, ceo and co-founder, said.
  • Morgan Stanley has reportedly cut its U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities group to 12 people and reduced its European and Asian groups to eleven staffers each.