The Trepp CMBS delinquency rate held at 9.71% in December 2012, unchanged from the previous month.

JP Morgan Securities held on to the No. 1 spot in the ASR Scorecards Database's repliminary ranking of public managers for full-year 2012.

Upwards of $7 billion of collateralized loan obligations priced in December, bringing the total for the year to around $53 billion, and market participants say the 2012 pipeline is building.

The notion that higher g-fees will, on their own, lead to a revival of the private-label MBS market is a fantasy.

In the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) a slew of commercial mortgage backed securities are maturing this month.

The collateralized debt obligation (CDO) may not have a great reputation, but it has an important strength: versatility.

The much-maligned collateralized debt obligation appears to be set to play a crucial role in the recapitalization of commercial real estate. Only no-one is calling these deals CDOs.

Barclays Capital weighed in on the effects of updated valuations for mortgage-backed securities held by U.S. insurers.

The performance of the collateral behind residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) in the U.S. continued improving in November.

Policymakers appear unwilling to take on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as they face other issues and the housing market begins to recover.

Securitization of very large commercial loans, a hallmark of the CMBS market before the financial crisis, is making a comeback -- but with a twist.

Experience isn the only thing that sets managers of collateralized loan obligations apart, according to Scott D’Orsi, a partner with Feingold O’Keeffe Capital; it's also a matter of investment style