Subordination provides credit enhancement to the notes, as well as deposits in the reserve and redemption accounts.

The capital structure features initial exchangeable notes among the class A, mezzanine and B1 notes. The super senior and senior support tranches will repay noteholders on a pro-rata basis.

The company's branches and loan officers will transition to ML Mortgage but operations staff are not part of the deal.

Note payments are linked to two tranched credit default swap (CDS) transactions, one related to the reference obligation between the issuer and SoFi Bank and SoFi Lending and the Issuer.

The Federal Open Market Committee held the federal funds rate at current levels, citing "lack of further progress" toward meeting inflation goals.

During this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, officials voted to lower the cap on the amount of Treasury securities that can roll off the central bank's books each month from $60 billion to $25 billion.

House Republicans held a subcommittee hearing on reforming bank merger M&A, laying the groundwork to counter Biden administration efforts to make it more difficult for mergers to be approved.

The fixed, tax-exempt notes have about 137.5% in expected senior bond parity and 124.1% in subordinate bond parity levels.

Moody's took note of several credit strengths in the portfolio, including that on a weighted average (WA) basis, the contracts have a weighted average FICO score of 767 and only a point higher for the upsized pool.

Plaintiffs seeking class certification claim the bank uses an underwriting system that discriminates against minority mortgage applicants.

Consolidation has slowed since the pandemic, but UMB's agreement to buy Heartland Financial — the largest deal in three years — is one of several merger announcements in the past two weeks. Talks among other potential buyers and sellers are said to be picking up.

Used cars make up virtually American Credit Acceptance entire collateral pool, and while observers said recoveries in this asset group have been lower, the pool includes a higher percentage of better performing called collateral.