CMBS

Goldman Sachs is selling $1.02 billion of bonds refinancing the Blackstone Group’s acquisition of the Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower.

Multifamily is one of four lending subcategories that regulators consider when assessing a bank’s exposure to commercial real estate. Dozens of banks remain above regulators’ preferred capital ratio for measuring CRE risk.

Cohen Financial Services is readying a $567.4 million offering of bonds backed by mortgages on office, retail and apartment buildings in a state of transition.

Some commercial mortgage bond investors would like to see sponsors of deals eat even more of their own cooking. And that appears to be what Goldman Sachs is doing in a transaction that launched Wednesday.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages resumed climbing in February, after an unexpected pause the previous month.

Securitization pros compared notes on regulatory compliance and learned about the risks and rewards of fintech; here are the highlights of the Structured Finance Industry Group;s annual confab.

JPMorgan is relying on someone else to keep “skin in the game” of its next offering of commercial mortgage bonds.

The oft-maligned risk-retention standards for asset-backed securities benefits from members of at least one segment of the market: commercial mortgage-backed securities investors.

Securitization pros are guardedly optimistic about the Trump Administration’s impact on the industry, even if no one expects to see a rollback of regulations imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act in the immediate future.