The €173.3 million deal is backed by loans originated by the former Catalunya Banc, which were purchased at discount by the Blackstone Group in 2014.

Three broadly syndicated deals printed in December have senior, AAA-rated tranches that pay just 107 basis points over Libor - the lowest coupon of the year.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2013 guidance putting indirect auto lenders on the hook for unintentional discrimination by their partner dealers should have been subject to congressional review, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday.

The deal, BXMT 2017-FL1 weighs in at $1 billion, making it more than twice as large as most CRE-CLOs issued this year; its size isn't the only unusual feature, however.

The Trepp CMBS delinquency rate is now 5.18%, a decrease of three basis points from the October level; declines were limited to the industrial, multifamily and office subindexes.

The $160 million cell tower deal is the first since T-Mobile and Sprint abandoned merger talks that could have reduced lease renewals.

The new deal is smaller, at $130.1 million, and the collateral is almost entirely of PV systems financed through third-party loan agreements.

Junk-rated firms pay little tax, and so won't benefit much from a lower corporate rate. And this benefit could be offset by a limit on the interest deduction.

Testing of the common securitization platform is taking longer than expected, but the Federal Housing Finance Agency said it won't delay the 2019 launch of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's new single "uniform mortgage-backed security."

The dramatic tightening in loan spreads this year made it difficult for the CLO manager to manage to various performance metrics of its deals, and this required building flexibility into deals being refinanced.

Despite boosting credit enhancement, the sponsor was only able to earn an 'A' from S&P Global Ratings, which cited heightened competition and adverse borrower selection.

A provision in the original Senate tax reform bill would have required companies acquiring mortgage servicing rights to pay taxes upfront for their anticipated servicing income.