ABS

Moody's Ratings has assigned AAA to the Class A notes, which account for 87.3% of the transaction.

The transactions represent Hertz's 16th and 17th term ABS transactions from the Hertz Vehicle Financing platform.

BofA Securities, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Japan's SMBC Bank International are joint lead managers.

A revolving pool of Walmart-branded Mastercard accounts will support the deal, which presses ahead despite risks tied to U.S. tariff policy.

Although the collateral is described as non-prime, Moody's points to several strong credit characteristics, including an average non-zero FICO score of 697 and an eScore of 768.

One atypical feature, for an auto ABS deal, is that principal on the notes will be reduced in a reverse sequential order based on realized losses.

TALNT 2025-1's notes benefit from initial hard credit enhancement that totals 6.33% of the note balance.

Credit support to the bonds range from 28.48% to 32.30%. They provide coverage of about 3.0x-3.4x of its base-case net loss in the 'A' stressed, break-even cash flow scenarios.

All the senior notes—including A1, rated P1 and A2 through A4, rated Aaa—benefit from total initial hard credit enhancement equaling 4.80% of the pool balance.

The vehicles comprise the overcollateralization (OC), because of a highly liquid secondary market for them. That OC rate will shift according to the fleet mix.

All the notes have credit enhancement totaling 28.3% of the pool balance, rating agencies said.

The deal has a prefunding period through July, when more non-prime collateral can be purchased and added to the pool.

BAAT Auto Trust series 2025-1, has a super-prime underlying borrower base, as FICO scores exceeding 800 made up 55.2% of the pool.

The WA original term is about 68 months for all three pools. That is shorter than the term on the previous series, but within the range of terms on recent deals.

The deal can be upsized to $2 billion, and the transaction will repay principal sequentially, growing non-declining enhancement as the notes amortize.