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CMBS Players Back Registry for Commercial Loans.(commercial mortgage backed securities)

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MERS saw the MBA convention, with its commercial track, as an opportunity to meet potential funding partners as well as to "start laying the groundwork for MERS commercial, to start talking about it and see where it is coming."

Douglas Danko, MERS' director of sales and marketing said, "Anytime you can get people together that potentially can use MERS sometime, somewhere in their lives, it is an opportunity for us to throw a big net out and hopefully catch a lot of fish."

Having lined up six funding partners for its MERS CMBS registry, MERS recently had a meeting at its McLean, Va. location to develop a draft set of business specifications for the adaptation of the current residential Mortgage Electronic Registry System to the CMBS process.

Bill Hultman, a senior vice president with MERS Corp. said that the meeting included the six funding partners, as well as representatives of other parties interested in the CMBS registry.

MERS expects to refine the business specifications that they have come up with into file form over the next couple of weeks so that they are ready by the time of the MBA's annual convention.

After that, they will turn over the specifications to their technology partner, Electronic Data Systems, to let them do the actual coding and changes to the existing MERS system that would be required to ...

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