Donna M. Mitchell

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.

A vast majority of the collateral pool balance, 82.6%, are mortgages used to purchase primary residences, and just 17.4% finance second homes.

Alternative documentation accounts for 37.9% of the pool balance, compared with 24.6% on the 2024-NQM4 deal.

Borrowers had an original FICO score of 774. A little over a quarter of the borrowers, 25.1%, are self-employed.

Underwriting methods have been steadily shifting to traditional full documentation, which accounts for 13.3% in the VERUS 2024-9, KBRA said, its largest share since VERUS 2024-6.

Notes will repay investors through a modified sequential-payment structure. Senior notes will repay on a pro rata basis. Otherwise, the principal classes will repay principal until the balance in the senior classes equal zero.

Moody's says its cumulative net loss expectation for the PFAST 2024-1 pool is 0.70%, and puts its losses on the Aaa stress level at 4.75%.

Small Business Act 7(a) loans will secure the notes. Interest will be repaid through subordination and interest will be repaid on a pro rata basis.

The market expects 5.2% yields on the AAA-rated tranche, slightly tighter than the 5.1% seen on the AAA-rated notes on an earlier deal, the Affirm Asset Securitization Trust, 2024-B series.

There is a three-year revolving period when the transaction will not make any principal payments to the notes unless an early amortization event occurs.

The deal comes about 18 months after Maritime Partners completed its securitization of Jones Act shipping business revenue, raising $235.3 million.