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  • Morgan Stanley is in the market this week with a $725.57m conduit CMBS transaction that will test a vertical risk retention structure, as market participants say that a horizontal model is proving to be a tough sell for both issuers and investors.
  • A number of single family rental (SFR) properties were damaged by the devastating Hurricane Matthew but, according to Moody’s, the effect on transactions should be minimal.
  • The US housing market saw a slowdown in construction as new build starts fell for a second straight month in September.
  • As the US CLO and CMBS markets debate the viability of horizontal versus vertical risk retention, the market is quietly discussing a third solution to this year’s favourite fixed-income conundrum.
  • Deutsche Bank priced the first ever single asset CMBS offering to comply with risk retention rules late last week, giving the market the first glimpse of what a deal tied to a single property will look like under the new regulatory regime.
  • The US CMBS market has been steadily widening since a summer rally pushed spreads on the bonds to the tightest levels of 2016, with new issue benchmark triple-As widening out by over 20bp since then.
  • Barclays has structured a 57 loan CMBS totalling £2.44bn ($3.6bn), which will be largely retained by the bank, just a few days after the Bank of England opened up its Term Funding Scheme to offer low cost liquidity to UK banks.
  • Lloyds has told GlobalCapital that a lawsuit which could cost it £275m ($357m) does not have merit, and promised to contest the suit vigorously.
  • The US House Financial Services Committee, has moved to pass the Financial CHOICE bill, a wide ranging reform of the Dodd-Frank Act which would essentially exempt non-RMBS securitized assets from risk retention.