Donna M. Mitchell

Despite Exeter's experience, it has low durability as a servicer. This puts its default probability in the unknown.

Proceeds from principal can be used to make up for shortfalls to the notes, but those shortfalls on the class A2 and subordinate bonds will not be paid from principal proceeds until the senior classes are retired.

The agency wants the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts, which sell student loan asset-backed securities (ABS) to investors, to pay $2.25 million in fines to borrowers.

KBRA notes that commercial obligors with an investment grade rating make up 76% of MassMutual's customer base. Within that group, payments from the U.S. government account for 14.4%, the largest concentration.

ODART 2025-1 will be the first transaction from the program that will include loans originated through OneMain Foursight, the lending unit that was formed when OneMain bought Foursight Capital from Jefferies Financial Group.

Island is a first-time issuer and largely originates and services the loans through its network of 48 branches.

Notes will be repaid through a sequential pay structure that will require principal to be repaid in full to the class A1 notes.

The $1 billion deal included classes A-L-A and A-L-B were offered as loans.

The inaugural deal is expected to close by the end of the month. Among its structural features are cash trap and cash sweep provisions.

The prime pool can be upsized to $1.7 billion, and the base pool amount has a lower securitization discount rate of 9.60%, lower than the previous deal from this program.

The current deal adds a class E tranche, which provides subordination to the pool, unlike previous Oportun transactions dating back to 2022.

Fitch Rating says it noticed a greater preference for consumers to use cellphones for a longer period and previously decreased the assumptions for upgrade losses to 0.25%, from 0.35%.

In both scenarios of the 2025-1 series, the capital structure will issue notes through about eight tranches, including an overcollateralization piece representing 5.15% of the pool balance.

Classes A through E, do not allow for payment-in-kind, which allows borrowers to use assets other than cash—such as equity or shares—to make interest payments.

The senior certificates get credit protection from a specified lockout period, when the subordinate classes will receive no unscheduled principal payments from the collateral mortgages.

Structurally, the GSAR 2025-1 transaction has 22.5% in subordination for the class A notes, down from 22.8% seen on the GSAR 2024-4 deal, and pre-pricing excess spread fell to about 7.8% of the outstanding balance, from 8.9%.

The auto ABS deal can be upsized to $1.5 billion, and most of the notes benefit from credit enhancement equaling 6.10% on most of the notes.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision removes about $49 billion in medical bills from consideration for about 15 million Americans.

Despite shifts in work habits after COVID-19, the office building was 93.8% leased at the start of the month.

Alternative income documentation underwriting accounted for 61.9% of the collateral, compared with 55.2% of the underlying loans in the previous deal.