CMBS

Chicago,IL-based Clopton Capital plans to create larger conduits for lending CMBS loans.

November remittance data showed that the $192 million loan backed by the Manhattan Apartment Portfolio was liquidated. According to Barclays Capital CMBS analysts, if the loan's disposition strategy is right, this might be considered the largest note sale ever in CMBS.

The Royal Bank of Scotland filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday to issue a CMBS under its Commercial Mortgage Passthrough Certificates trust.

The RMBS and related CDO sectors lead the pack in both realized and expected future credit losses from U.S. structured finance issuances, according to Fitch Ratings.

UBS is reportedly closing its U.S. ABS business, according to a Dow Jones report that quoted an advance copy of a Thursday edition of Swiss weekly Handelszeitung.

Freddie Mac is offering its fourth structured passthrough certificates (K Certificates) deal backed by multifamily mortgages with a seven-year term.

Bondholders face a payment reversal event for the European Talisman-5 Finance plc CMBS deal. It's the second reversal event to occur this year in a European CMBS.

JPMorgan Chase is said to be planning the launch a $739 million deal backed by floating-rate CMBS.

KGS-Alpha Capital Markets has expanded has boosted its CMBS trading team with the addition of Jeff Lewis, Kyla Wichser and Andrew Noonan. It has also brought on board a new chief strategist, Kamal Abdullah.

Electronic trading platform for U.S. and European fixed-income bonds MarketAxess Holdings just added non-agency RMBS and CMBS to its e-trading platform.