Front pay, AAA CMBS backed by well-underwritten loans trading at premium dollar prices offer attractive relative value for investors. Spreads on these bonds reflect higher default prepayment risk than is appropriate given the lower default risk of better quality loans. Also, investors can improve credit quality without giving up spread by buying high premium, locked out, longer average life, AAA CMBS which do not have default prepay risk. Some of these currently trade as wide as 56 bps about the same as single A CMBS.
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Both pools have exposures to large dealers, so losses could be more pronounced if one dealer goes bankrupt, while both series have revolving periods, when noteholders will not receive any principal.
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The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a 30-page guidebook on managing affiliate risks. The report builds on formal guidance issued last year.
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In talks with OCC officials, "it became obvious that we would not gain near-term approval given their recent experience with multifamily and CRE positions," FirstSun CEO Neal Arnold says. The companies announced other revisions to their deal, too.
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Subordination provides credit enhancement to the notes, as well as deposits in the reserve and redemption accounts.
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The capital structure features initial exchangeable notes among the class A, mezzanine and B1 notes. The super senior and senior support tranches will repay noteholders on a pro-rata basis.
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The company's branches and loan officers will transition to ML Mortgage but operations staff are not part of the deal.
May 2