CDOs/CLOs

Standard & Poor’s downgraded MBIA and its two principal bond insurer subsidiaries on Wednesday, citing new methodologies for assessing RMBS.

Resource America's subsidiary Resource Europe Management sold the management contract of Resource Europe CLO I B.V., a €300 million ($392.74 million) CLO. The sale was made to an affiliate of Intermediate Capital Group (ICG).

The volume of new CLOs may triple the level reached in 2010, according to a Wells Fargo analyst.

New capital requirements under the Basel III framework would have cost banks roughly $770 billion had they been fully implemented at the end of last year, according to a 32-page study released Thursday by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is preparing a $402 million CLO to be managed by Ares Management, according to Bloomberg.

Moody's Investors Service has assigned a provisional rating to two classes of Notes issued under the €520 million ($692 million) small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME)CDO dubbed FTPYME TDA CAM 9, FTA.

SL Green Realty Corp. and Gramercy Capital Corp. agreed that SL Green will purchase investments from Gramercy for a $390.8 million aggregate price, including the assumption of $265.6 million in debt.

ABS market players have certainly learned their lesson from the problems that led to the financial crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put on hold one change that could have shuttered the ABS market starting in early January. But a long line of proposals marching into 2011 will keep ABS compliance departments busy and, in some cases, may fundamentally alter the market.

Standard Chartered Bank has completed its sixth CLO under its START CLO program called START VI CLO, according to a release from the firm.