Nora Colomer

If the new RMBS deals issued in the past week give an indication of what the non-agency market space will look like, then it is clear that only the best will do.

The potential sale of the Maiden Lane III (ML III) assets might signal that the Federal Reserve is making its move to take liquidity out of the system, securitization experts said Thursday.

A federal judge has ordered the former CEO of Brookstreet Securities Corp. to pay a maximum $10 million penalty in a securities fraud case related to the financial crisis.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities special servicers have increased their activity over the past two months with roughly $3.7 billion in newly modified loans, according to an FTN Financial report.

Cashel USA Property Partners plans to purchase up to $500 million in distressed single-family residences in the U.S. to convert into rentals that will be serviced by PropertyAccess, a provider of national property management services for professional investors.

Assured Guaranty has filed a lawsuit against UBS' real estate securities unit over breach of contract claims.

Talks to sell Citigroup's high-risk-borrower lender, OneMain, have been put on hold given the depressed macroeconomic environment, according to several media reports.

Average daily volume in the CMBS market in December is down versus November, according to data reported by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine or TRACE.

Redwood Trust said it is currently seeing a very robust pipeline of potential CMBS transactions.

Nearly two-thirds – or 60% – of European CMBS maturing loans could fail to repay by the end of 2012, according to Standard & Poor's.

Reinstating trust in the ratings process is key to growing investor interest, according to buyside participants in a panel at an asset-backed securities conference in Miami last week.

Master servicers have been instrumental in dealing with the robosigning debacle in existing securitization deals, said participants at Information Management Network's ABS East Conference on Sunday.

The heads of CMBS trading at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs departed from their respective firms late last week.

Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. and affiliated funds of Perella Weinberg Partners’ asset based value strategy have formed a joint venture to originate commercial mortgages for future securitization, the companies said Friday.

No one could have predicted the speed of recovery in the commercial real estate space, said panelists speaking at the American Securitization Forum’s 2011 annual meeting.

The $5.2 million loan on the U.S. Geological Survey regional headquarters that was securitized in loan pool JPMCC 2010-C2 is 30-days delinquent, according to a report from Royal Bank of Scotland.