Donna M. Mitchell

COLT 2024-5 has a higher concentration of full documentation loans, 6.1%, compared with 5.1% on the COLT 2024-4 deal, and smaller concentrations of piggyback mortgages and loans on investor properties.

The joint venture will use a combination of internal and third-party capital to purchase mortgage loans that A&D originates and services, while investing in a range of mortgage securities on the transactions.

Strong fundamentals like strong contractual cashflows, a favorable outlook for the wireless sector and the underlying mortgage structure all support positive credit to the notes.

The Onity Loan Investment Trust, series 2024-HB2, is preparing to issue $469.3 million in securitized bonds, with repayment pledged from principal payments from pool of 1,078 reverse mortgage loan and real-estate owned (REO) assets.

Pricing talk includes yields ranging from 4.9% on the AAA, class A1 notes; 5.7% on the AA, class A2 notes; and 6.2% on the AA M1 notes.

The action stems from 2017, when the CFPB filed a lawsuit claiming Navient steered borrowers who might have qualified for income-driven repayment plans into more expensive forbearance instead.

Since July 21, 2021, the cutoff date before its last deal, Avant's active credit card accounts increased 388%, to its current 1 million accounts.

Across both deals, the class A notes have total initial hard credit enhancements of 19.25% of the pool balance. Class B notes benefit from 13.00% in total hard credit enhancement, and class C notes benefit from 9.25%.

On a cumulative basis, Moody's expects the asset pool to have a net loss of 1.25%, down from 1.50% in the prior deal.

The notes benefit from total initial hard credit enhancement that represents 8.0% of the pool balance on the class A notes. Classes B, C, D and N benefit from credit enhancement levels representing 5.40%, 2.20%, 0.50% and 0.25%, respectively.

Affirm Asset Securitization benefits from overcollateralization in several forms. Target overcollateralization during the revolving period will equal 2.65% of the initial adjusted pool balance.

The pool consists of 16,272 contracts, with an average contract balance of $93,502. On a weighted average (WA) basis, the contracts have an original term of 55.7 months.

Mellecker, a former Goldman MD, will focus on a range of securitizations, structured private credit deals and private placements in its structured finance and structured private credit practice.

More than 91.7% of the portfolio loans were extended to dentists, general medical practitioners or veterinary surgeons—considered prime obligors.

Only loans from the Achieve Personal Loan product line are in the current collateral pool.

Overcollateralization, subordination of the junior notes, a non-declining cash reserve account and excess spread provide credit enhancement to the notes.

Since 2019, the portfolio has recorded five defaults—driven by bankruptcies—and each was resolved with a 100% recovery rate, Fitch said.

The 1,055 loans in the pool are primarily non-qualified mortgages and loans that are exempt from ability-to-repay rules, which represent 36.4% and 43.87% of the pool, respectively.

The transaction has a nine-month revolving period. All of the leases are closed end, where the issuer bears the residual value risk, and more of them can be added during that period.

Total initial credit enhancement includes over-collateralization representing 8.95% of the initial pool balance, which is expected to build to a targeted level of 13.95%.