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One enhancement to the notes, however, is a $55 million credit insurance policy from AIG Europe that covers the Rosy Blue Carat receivables.

Subordination levels for classes A, B and C are 38.12%, 20.84%, and 0%, respectively, down from previous levels of 47.63%, 33.68% and 18.18%.

When the deal closes the notes will have an overcollateralization level of 5.75%, which will increase to a target of 14.75%.

PFS Financing Corp., 2023-A's collateral pool is fairly diversified along the lines of property and casualty insurance carriers that contribute loans to the pool.

The deal has an exposure to fixed-to-floating interest rate risk. While 75%-88% of the total notes are fixed rate, while just 57% of the underlying assets are.

Stack will finance turnkey and powered shell data centers that have relatively long contract terms, with a weighted average (WA) 6.6 years remaining.

NextGear reduced the recreational vehicle and daily rentals maximum, while increasing the maximum concentration of heavy-duty trucks and salvage vehicles.

CCG has total initial hard credit enhancement of 17.0%, 12.5% and 7.0% on the classes A, B and C notes, respectively, and annual excess spread is about 4.68%.

SEMT 2023-2 shifted some of its underwriting from traditional full documentation to agency underwriting, with the latter accounting for 14.1% of the pool balance.

As of December 2022, improvements contributed about $15.4 million in incremental rental income, plus more than $310 million of additional sales volume.

Some 69.1% of the underlying mortgages are closed-end second (CES), fixed-rate residential mortgage loans, while 30.9% are HELOC, adjustable-rate loans.

The notes will be issued from a multi-tier debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) and a payment-in-kind (PIK) feature for class E-1, class E-2 and class F notes.

The unguaranteed loans are secured by one or more first-lien commercial real estate loans. The notes have a break-even default rate cushion of 2.39%.

AFG ABS will repay the notes on a sequential-pro rata basis, and classes A-1 and A-2 will repay note interest on a pro rata basis.

The security driving the revenue to the bonds is a tariff on customers' monthly bills, in line with the "U.S. Utility Tariff/Stranded Cost Bonds Rating Criteria."

CRVNA 2023-1's collateral pool has a non-zero FICO score of 705, interest rate of 11.83%, original term of 72 months and remaining term of 70 months.

Among DataBank 2023-1's enhancement features is a turbo principal amortization mechanism that kicks in after the notes' anticipated repayment date.

The transaction, secured almost entirely by installment loans on new vehicles, can be upsized to $1.6 billion, and notes will be priced over the I-curve.

One potentially positive credit aspect includes consistently low delinquencies and net losses, and recent geopolitical events have played a part.

While debt outstanding and performance issues are up, and new securitizations are down as expected, only auto ABS showed early signs of issuance growth.