Citigroup plans to issue a $240 million CMBS large loan transaction backed by a shopping mall, called Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust 2013-SMP.

The European Covered Bond Council’s labeling initiative needs a broader market take-up in order to meaningfully impact volumes, said analysts at Standard &Poor’s.

European CMBS had a bad start to 2013 with January recording the highest number of loan maturities in a single month, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Abercrombie & Fitch’s recently announced store closures may be a harbinger of things to come for other retailers, a potential concern for commercial mortgage backed securities, according to Fitch Ratings.

Credit Suisse’s first residential mortgage securitization of 2013 made some improvements to representations and warranties relative to the issuer’s its past post-crisis jumbo deals; but still weaker than the standards set by Redwood Trust’s RMBS deals.

Europe's first collateralized loan obligation after the financial crisis, called Cairn CLO III B.V., has features that are common in U.S. CLOs issued over the past two years that limit credit risk, according to a Moody's Investors Service.

Given the wide variety of assets that are securitized and the various structures used in these deals, regulators were compelled to provide multiple ways for sponsors to keep some proverbial skin in the game.

After contracting sharply last year amid regulatory uncertainty and an economic slowdown, Brazil’s structured finance market now appears to be poised for a recovery.

Ratings agencies are being extra careful to flat the potential risks in a variety of assets classes well ahead of time.

Ratings agencies have received a number of proposals for private-label resi

Strong payment structures and high credit enhancement levels will mitigate the impact of less conservative underwriting on subprime auto loan securitizations.

Spreads in the primary market have tightened so much that equity holders are calling collateralized loan obligations issued as recently as 2011 in order to fund new deals more cheaply.