CMBS definition

CMBS. Commercial mortgage-backed securities.
CMBS means commercial mortgage-backed securities.
CMBS means mortgage pass-through certificates or other securities issued pursuant to a securitization of commercial real estate loans.

Examples of CMBS in a sentence

  • For the CMBS Platform (defined below) transactions and during the Period (defined below), the Company either (i) served directly in the related trustee, securities administration, paying agent, and/or related roles (collectively, the “CMBS Platform Roles”), or (ii) served as agent for Wells Fargo who remained in the related CMBS Platform Roles.

  • The Company’s Direct Role Transactions comprise a small percentage of the overall CMBS Platform transactions for the Period.

  • More specifically, since its acquisition of the Wells Fargo CTS business on November 1, 2021, including during the Period, the Company has (i) closed new CMBS transactions and (ii) completed the transfer of certain CMBS transaction roles from Wells Fargo CTS to Computershare, for which, in each case, during all or a portion of the Period, the Company performed the related CMBS Platform Roles directly (the “Company’s Direct Role Transactions”).

  • With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(2)(vi) for transactions in the CMBS Platform, the Company engaged, at times during the Period, one vendor, and at other times during the Period, two vendors, in each case to make certain payments by check to investors and/or third parties, and to safeguard certain unissued checks.

  • For a significant majority of CMBS Platform transactions, the Company served, during all or a portion of the Period, as agent for Wells Fargo who remained in the related CMBS Platform Roles (the “Company’s Agent Role Transactions”).


More Definitions of CMBS

CMBS means pass-through certificates representing beneficial ownership interests in one or more first lien mortgage loans secured by commercial and/or multifamily properties, regardless of rating.
CMBS means, in the singular or plural as the context requires, securities backed by mortgages and other liens on commercial real estate and related collateral or by securities, interests or other obligations backed directly or indirectly by such mortgages.
CMBS means securities (other than any commercial loan or participation interest in a commercial loan) that entitle holders to receive payments that depend (except for rights or other assets designed to assure the servicing or timely distribution of proceeds to holders of such securities) on the cashflows from a commercial mortgage loan or a pool of commercial mortgage loans.
CMBS means commercial mortgage-backed securities issued by a CMBS issuer (each, a “CMBS Issuer”) and acquired in secondary market transactions.