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FASB Issues Q&A on CMBS Transactions Under SFAS 140

WASHINGTON, DC-The FASB has issued a revised guidance draft on July 3 and expects to release its final copy this week on CMBS transactions under the SFAS 140 accounting standard.

By Amy Vaughn | Updated on July 17, 2001

WASHINGTON, DC-In a preventative measure against a commercial mortgage backed securities market disruption, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a new draft guidance on CMBS transactions under the SFAS 140 accounting standard. The draft was issued July 3 and a final draft is expected this week.

The Real Estate Roundtable and other organizations pushed for a new guidance to aid industry professionals. The FASB responded with a document in a question and answer format discussing the “fair value” call option permitting special servicers and securities holders to purchase defaulted loans in securitization transactions, despite provisions in the April 1 SFAS 140 limiting a special servicer’s discretion to dispose of an impaired loan in a CMBS pool.

“The liquidity and stability of the $300 billion CMBS market are essential to ensuring adequate flows of real estate credit,” says David A. Twardock of the Prudential Mortgage Capital Company and vice chairman of the Roundtable’s Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee. Twardock, who contributed to the drafting of the guidance, notes, “Given the current softening in US economic growth and potential global financial contagion, a healthy CMBS market is more important than ever for real estate and the overall economy.”

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