The Mother of All RFPs
Politics and the CMBS industry have become sudden (and strange) bedfellows, but recent developments may help bring open transparency to […]
What a Week to be in San Francisco
This week is one of my favorites. The Blue Angels are coming to town, and the weather is looking nice.
What a Week to be in New York
I had four days at the Tribeca Grand this week, and it has felt a little bit like September 11,
From foreclosures to recurring revenue: Jim’s early career
When I graduated from Boston College in 1989, I had no idea I was beginning an adventure that would position
What’s in a name?
In May at the MBA tech conference in Chicago, I laid out the CMBS.com master plan to Mike Lipson of
Black Monday and champagne?
Two major events today: Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, and Bank of America went live on Backshop. — — —
CMBS 2.0 – What went wrong and how we fix it
To have the need for 2.0 of anything, by definition, 1.0 could have been better. Certainly that was the case
Transparency vs skin
There is no question that the way in which we have conducted securitizations in the past is broken. I agree
The history of Backshop and CMBS.com
It is September 11, 2008 and I have started preparing content for my soon-to-be released-blog, CMBS 2.0. The history of
