Moody's Investor Service said today in an "unsolicited" comment that the JP Morgan Chase CMBS conduit, Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-C8, lacks sufficient credit enhancement throughout most of the deal's capital structure.

Fannie Mae’s $22.3 billion in year-to-date multifamily issuance through the third quarter suggests 2012’s total will easily top 2011’s, according to a capital markets executive.

Plans for issuance of a new type of mortgage security from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the so-called "risk sharing" bond , could become a casualty of the Oct. 12 changes to how the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defines "commodity pools".

Guy Carpenter appointed Peter Barr to the position of senior vice president of its regional reinsurance market team.

After surging 19.6% the last week of September as mortgage rates fell to new historic lows, refinancing activity eased back.

Trafigura AG completed a $250 million receivables purchase facility that was syndicated by Finacity Corporation.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. has completed its first asset-backed bank conduit facility with a group of six banks for $450 million.

The CRE Finance Council and investment research firm Morningstar have teamed up to launch a data set covering all facets of commercial mortgage-backed securities

Alliance Data Systems Corporation and GE Capital are each in the market with credit card ABS securitization deals that total a combined $1.032 billion.

Sallie Mae will issue a $976 million securitization of private student loans.

Hyundai Motor Co. and American Honda Finance Corp. are marketing two auto securitization deals that will be sized at $1.5 billion and $1bln respectively.

Investment bank EA Markets is muscling up their structured finance team by bringing on three new hires: Neil Winward, Greg Raykher, and Gerry Kaufman.