Trio Offer Access to Moody's CMBS Metrics

Moody's Investors Service and Torto Wheaton Research have teamed up with Trepp LLC, a provider of commercial mortgage-backed securities and commercial mortgage analytics, to make the rating agency's commercial mortgage metrics available to CMBS investors.Trepp will use the metrics, a quantitative tool for assessing credit risk associated with commercial mortgage loans, to produce annual and cumulative probabilities of default for CMBS under various scenarios, as well as other input such as loss given default, Moody's said. "CMM will provide CMBS investors with the same industry-leading analytics now being used by major banks and life insurance companies to analyze risk in their commercial loan portfolios," said Tad Philipp, managing director for CMBS with Moody's. The companies can be found online at http://www.moodys.com, http://www.tortowheatonresearch.com, and http://www.trepp.com.