Donna M. Mitchell

Royalty revenues account for virtually all the program's incoming securitized collections, at 95.5%, with fees on initial contracts and other income accounting for 4.5%.

Conventional trucks with sleeper compartments make up the largest exposure to the collateral, with a 24.3% slice of the pool, and virtually all of the 3,549 underlying contracts are backed by personal guarantees.

Amid the housing market's challenges, the pool still has borrowers with strong credit profiles, including a 48% debt-to-income (DTI) ratio, and low leverage of 63%, for a sustainable loan-to-value ratio.

The notes are expandable so that at any time during that revolving period the issuer can upsize the notes, to a maximum of $500 million in the deal.

The class A and class B notes benefit from credit enhancement levels of 12.50% and 8.75%, respectively, and the class A notes benefit from the subordination of class B certificates.

Known at BLAST 2024-3, the deal will issue five classes of notes with subprime auto loans serving as collateral, even if the pool is upsized to $680 million.

The wireless infrastructure industry has positive fundamentals, with all major U.S. carriers making further network infrastructure investments to boost coverage and capacity to meet growth in wireless data traffic.

One of the transaction's many positive attributes is its low loan-to-value ratio, 71.5%, and with 4.7 million residents, the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., metro area ranks as the 12th most populous metro area in the U.S.

At the CFTC Sterling oversaw the 3,300-plus banks, intermediaries and asset managers registered with the agency, and the examination, rulemaking and enforcement referral programs.

No single company contributes more than 15% to the pool, while SN Servicing will service 84.3% of the loans in the pool.