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PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is a U.S.-based financial services corporation, with assets (as of December 31, 2011) of approximately $271.205 billion.
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That is what Ladder Capital Finance, a prolific commercial mortgage-backed securities lender, has done with its $49 million loan on a Boca Raton, Fla., shopping center, after J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) rejected the asset from a $1 billion CMBS last month, according to a person familiar with the loan.The loan on the Glades Plaza and The Commons at Town Center has popped up again in a planned CMBS from Deutsche Bank (DB, DBK.XE), whose bonds have included Ladder Capital loans in the past. The deal is being shopped to junior investors and isn't final, the person said.J.P. Morgan removed Ladder Capital's loan from its CMBS issue late in the process, signaling possible dispute with investors over the exposure they were taking and the leverage on the property. The mall had for the past year been mired in foreclosure proceedings with PNC Bank (PNC), whose Midland Loan Services was named special servicer on the J.P. Morgan issue. Meantime, analys...Worms in Washington can't ease America's economic problems, but Will Allen has millions of worms that can."It's all about the soil," he explains.Allen's worms are cr...
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