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Borrowers are considered prime in this pool, but Fitch Ratings notes that delinquency rates have been increasing since 2022.
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Total hard credit enhancement will represent 4.5% of the note balance, and initial reserves amounting to 2.0% of the pool.
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Almost the entire pool of mortgages will fund primary residences and were underwritten using full documentation.
March 19 -
Loans on used cars, extended to borrowers with prime credit characteristics, make up the reference pool of assets.
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Aside from that, three collateral performance trigger events—delinquency, default and extension rate—that can force an early amortization are structured into the deal.
March 17 -
The pool is diversified, with its top obligor accounting for 3.2% of the pool balance, and the top 10 obligors account for 14.1%.
March 14 -
Coupons range from 4.4% on the noted rates P1/A1+ from Moody's and S&P, to 5.66% on the notes rated Ba1/BB+.
March 14 -
FHF sources almost all its loans—most recently 96% in 2024—from franchise dealers.
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The deal is structured as a public securitization, under Rule 144A, and is supported by lending indirectly through more than 1,100 partnerships across the country.
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The pass-through certificates are supported by a full pool of amortizing loans, which have no interest-only periods.
March 12 -
The United Auto 2025-1 series of notes has a more mixed subordination element compared with the previous deal.
March 11 -
Tax liens have so-called super priority in repayments, even placing ahead of a previously filed mortgage.
March 11 -
A set of performance-related triggers—cash trapping and expense reserve—will help maintain cash flow to the notes.
March 10 -
Full documentation accounts for a little over a third of the pool, but otherwise FICO scores are high, as are weighted average liquid reserves.
March 7 -
From the Q3 2021 to the early 2024 vintages, cumulative gross loss (CGL) levels had been trending up, likely due to consumer credit normalizing, due to inflationary pressures.
March 6 -
GM Financial Revolving Receivables Trust, 2025-1 has a five-year-long revolving period, risking exposure to assets with longer terms.
March 6 -
Fitch notes that 74.8% of the collateral pool, made up entirely of 3,103 loans, is backed by trucking—or transportation—equipment.
March 5 -
The fund closes ahead of separate news that it formed the Private Real Estate Credit platform, which will originate senior and subordinated commercial real estate loans.
March 5 -
It is the program's second issuance to come to market with a pool made up entirely of consumer loans.
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Excess cash flow will pay timely interest and protect against realized losses in the rated certificates before being paid out to the class X notes.
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