Archive for October, 2011
Friday, October 14th, 2011
Credit Suisse is closing its commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan-origination unit, but will continue its secondary trading operation, according to a source close to the matter.
The bank has not structured a CMBS offering this year, but has made loans that were contributed to other transactions since it restarted its commercial real estate lending operation this past spring.
The re-emergence of the CMBS sector looked promising earlier this year, and the Swiss bank was hoping to start originating loans again. In May, Credit Suisse started to rebuild its CMBS team, hiring well known industry expert Roger Lehman to head CMBS research.
Lehman had previously been co-head of Bank of America's structured finance research team.
Origination/Lending

Consumer sentiment climbed to an index level of 75 in January, the best reading of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan...
Secondary Markets/Investors

The new federal task force led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent subpoenas to the 11 largest financial...
Servicing/Default

More commercial mortgage-backed securities loans landed in special servicing at the end of 2011, suggesting the CMBS sector is vulnerable...








