CMBS

Barclays Capital issued a $500 million transaction from its medium-term note program, Gracechurch Card Program Funding PLC.

The commercial real estate finance company hired James Cope and Patrick Dempsey as senior vice presidents with plans to open a new office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair is at helm of a new private sector, volunteer group, The Systemic Risk Council.

The mounting pipeline of summer CMBS deals are likely to price wide across the capital structure as investors react to macro-economic uncertainty, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said in a CMBS securitization report this week.

Standard & Poor's today issued two Request for Comment (RFC) articles on its proposed changes to its CMBS criteria.

Clopton Capital announced yet another product aimed at boosting lending in commercial real estate (CRE).

Originators of private student loans can't seem to catch a break. Two years ago, the federal government stopped guaranteeing these loans, leaving them unsecured; more recently, there's been a push in Congress to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The loans are also attracting scrutiny from the recently empowered Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.

Fitch Ratings and Kroll Bond Ratings will rate the $1.1 billion CMBS conduit deal backed by 61 fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans that are secured by 80 properties.