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Goldman, Citigroup CMBS deal delayed by S&P’s refusal to rate

A $1.5 billion commercial mortgage bond sale between Goldman Sachs and Citigroup has been scrapped, the companies said, because Standard and Poor’s would not rate the notes. According to Bloomberg News, the deal had been slated to close today but was delayed because S&P is reviewing its criteria for rating commercial mortgage-backed securities.

“Ratings are a condition precedent to closing and settlement,” Goldman Sachs and Citigroup said in the statement to Business Wire. “Standard & Poor’s had previously informed Goldman and Citi that they were prepared to rate” the transaction, they said.

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The risk assessor explained the change in a separate statement.

S&P ’’is reviewing the application of our conduit/fusion CMBS criteria in relation to the calculation of debt service coverage ratios,” it said yesterday. ’’The review was prompted by the discovery of potentially conflicting methods of calculation.’’ [Bloomberg]

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