Morningstar places 77 commercial MBS on review for potential downgrades; Coinstar ABS face potential downgrades; Fitch sees neutral impact for airline ABS amid troubles with Boeing planes; Verizon to issue mobile device financing ABS.

Falling interest rates and demand for alternative funding options should boost commercial MBS issuance, according to Morningstar DBRS.

Fitch upgrades ratings on nearly half of outstanding GSE CRT issuance; delinquencies in commercial MBS declined in December led by improvements in loan performance for office properties; Morningstar plans new criteria for assessing securitizations tied to small businesses.

Ten years after the first single-family securitization was issued, S&P Global Ratings is ready to assess the deals.

WeWork is renegotiating leases in an effort to reduce costs. In a 2021 commercial MBS from JPMorgan Chase, the monthly lease payment dropped by 25% and cash reserves in the deal are dwindling.

More punitive capital treatment of commercial real estate under Basel III could prove to be a boon for CMBS issuance.

The criteria include new calculations for property values and qualitative adjustments tied to loan-to-value ratio-sizing benchmarks.

Commercial MBS issuers that source loans from affiliated lenders have lower rate spreads when compared to CMBS pooled by investment banks with loans from third-party lenders.

HUD IG launches inquiry into Ginnie’s handling of Reverse Mortgage Funding’s bankruptcy; DBRS revises rating criteria for commercial MBS; WeWork exposure in commercial MBS; another record profit for Farmer Mac; ETF targets newer agency MBS.

Non-agency CMBS issuance was up in the third quarter, thanks to a gain in retail-property securitization. But agency multifamily MBS production slumped.