The delinquency rate of securitized commercial real estate loans dropped sharply in January down to the lowest level in 11 months mostly due to improvements in the performance of multifamily loans.

Fitch Ratings anticipates a “moderate” amount of call activity in the collateralized loan obligation market as players take advantage of cheaper funding costs available for new deals.

JP Morgan and Credit Suisse are said to be planning RMBS deals.

Southern Company’s Mississippi Power plans to do a utility securitization to recover the financing costs related to construction of its $3 billion coal-gasification power plant Kemper County.

Fitch Ratings said today that CMBS special servicers have adapted new policies and procedures for reporting financial statements to the master servicer as a measure to increase transparency in loan modifications.

CIFC manages the largest number of collateralized loan obligations in the U.S., according to the latest ranking published by Moodys Investors Service.

Dedicated funds have proved crucial to the develop of CAT bonds and they will remain so

Extended Stay issued the $350million, floating rate component of its $2.5 billion single borrower CMBS deal this week at pricing spreads that fell within guidance.

Freddie Mac plans to issue its second multi-family CMBS of 2013, a $1.3 billion transaction called FREMF 2013-K25.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley plan to issue a $1.14 billion CMBS conduit, MSBAM 2013-C8.

After last year’s false start, the GSEs plan to introduce risk-sharing bonds this year.