CMBS

Though House and Senate lawmakers still have plenty of issues to work out in the final regulatory reform bill, one thing is already clear: The legislation will do little to streamline the fractured financial regulatory framework.

Commercial real estate sales, prices and lending showed improvement in the first quarter but regulators expect bank losses on CRE loans will be elevated for at least another year.

Robert Story, Jr., chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reacted to the passage of S. 3217, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.

Amherst Securities Group hired Dan Hoffman as head of sales. In this position, Hoffman will be responsible for managing Amherst's fixed-income sales group.

After three weeks of contentious debate, the Senate approved landmark financial reform legislation 59 to 39 late Thursday.

Independent third-party review firm Allonhill hired Ross Gammill as director of the firm’s new commercial due diligence offering.

CMBS pricing saw some unprecedented trading margins over the last several weeks, but market players said that the sentiment does not carry through to fundamentals.

April was not our market's finest moment. It may have been Goldman executives who were in the hot seat, but at times it was as if, yet again, securitization were on trial.

With new accounting rules, regulatory uncertainty, and wary investors making ABS uneconomical for issuers, pockets of the securitization market are paralyzed. Participants are forced to look at alternative funding sources, which Nora Colomer explores in this month's cover story.