Donna M. Mitchell

All the three senior class A notes benefit from 60.95% in total initial hard credit enhancement. A reserve fund representing 1.00% of the total balance helps provide the credit enhancement to the notes.

For one, the deal is expected to include only Japanese foreign obligors—historically strong and comparable to U.S. obligors—from the pool of 9,333 loans.

This is ECMC's first securitization of a pool of rehabilitated loans since 2021.

After a three-year absence, the deal will issue notes repaid from a pool of leases on 22 refinanced assets. Almost all the assets are narrowbody aircraft, representing 87.9% of the pool by value. One widebody accounts for 12.1% of the asset value.

The current pool of borrowers with FICO scores below 700 represents 14.9% of the pool, compared with 13.5% of the 2023-B transaction, according to one analysis.

Those metrics were merely a return to solid pre-pandemic levels and do not suggest a deterioration, says Moody's. Yet a broader, and more weakened employment picture is emerging, SMBC Nikko Securities says separately.

In the non-prime pool, owner-occupied properties account for most of the assets, at 55.1%; the amount of investor properties represents 41.6% of the deal.

Subordination is unchanged on the classes A and B notes, and increased to 1.20% on the 2024-5 series notes, from 1.10% on the 2024-4 series.

In the collaboration, BNP Paribas, the European Union's leading global bank will commit the $5 billion in financing to support investment-grade, asset-backed credit that ATLAS and Apollo will source from their issuer clients.

A trigger occurs if the reserve fund is less than 50% of the reserve fund target amount, or if the payment date where the outstanding HEA valuation is less than 80% of the starting home valuation.