Donna M. Mitchell

Non-qualified loans are the majority of loans in the pool, 59.2%, while loans exempt from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, represent 35.9%.

February's securitization from Vertical Bridge was the sector's largest-ever deal and included the sector's first single-B rated tranche.

Unlike some of FIGRE Trust's previous securitizations, there is no performance trigger related to the net weighted average coupon rate.

Loans were underwritten to Fannie and Freddie guidelines, or to Ginnie Mae standards that apply to securities backed by jumbo loans ineligible for GSE pools because of their loan size.

Any additional securities that the transaction issues will rank equally with the class that has the same class designation.

Initially, the transaction will follow a sequential repayment structure that requires each note class to reach a required overcollateralization percentage before the next subordinate class begins receiving principal.

Notes will be backed by royalties from a music catalog containing more than 3,750 works from top artists and songwriters, including Diplo and ZZ Top.

A five-year-loan is financing Lyrik, a 495,275-square-foot, 20-story office tower, plus 38,012 square feet of retail space in Boston's Back Bay area, a premiere office submarket.

Analysts expect the pool to be composed of receivables primarily from franchise dealers that offer indirect financing to consumers often overlooked by traditional financing sources such as banks.

KBRA noted that debt service coverage ratio underwriting accounted for the largest portion of the loans in the pool, 35.0% and 52% of borrowers in the pool are self-employed.

The benchmark on the class A2 could change under certain circumstances, and the maximum allocation to the A2 notes will be 50% of the overall size of the A class.

Recent securitizations have seen a shift toward sport-utility, crossover utility and electric vehicles, as well as higher concentrations of the Kia and Genesis brands.

Schwartz advises clients on convertible 144A offerings, as well as private investments in public and private companies.

Iskandar and Kaveh have a liquidity reserve of about $16.3 million at closing, and a cash-trapping trigger if the three-month average class A debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) falls below 1.45x.

Zayo Issuer, series 2026-1 and 2026-2, uses a master trust structure that will initially issue five tranches of classes A, B and C notes, and can issue additional classes if they meet certain conditions.

The deal will issue floating-rate notes, through the A-1B tranche, while underlying variable-rate loans are pegged to either CME Term SOFR or the 30-day average SOFR.

The sophomore outing follows a similar structure as the Clarus 2024-1, with six tranches of class A, B, C, D and E notes. The A2 tranche will issue the bulk of notes, $165.4 million.

The underlying collateral pool is composed of 45,323 receivables, which have an average remaining loan balance of $30,210, and an average percentage rate (APR) 5.56%.

The public and large institution segment make up 89.7% of obligors, up from the 87.7% seen in DEFT 2025-2, an increase that was driven largely by an increase in the large enterprise institution segment.

The proceeds from PAID 2026-R2 will fund a purchase account, which will purchase unsecured consumer loans from PAID 2024-2 and 2024-3.