Donna M. Mitchell

The pool includes loans originated under section 504 of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, which supported funding for loans made to small business concerns, predominantly with original 30-year terms.

The trust will repay on a pro rata basis each month until the collateral's aggregate principal value is 50% of the aggregate principal value of the collateral obligations at closing.

Although used cars with borrowers of non-prime credit quality comprise the asset pool, it benefits from 9.00% in overcollateralization, subordination, a reserve account representing 1.00% of the pool balance, and excess spread.

The A5 through A21 notes have credit enhancement levels amounting to 15.00%, while the rest of the notes are covered by levels ranging from 8.65% to 0.55%.

Class A notes benefit from total hard credit enhancement equal to about 31.50% of the portfolio balance, while enhancement levels range from 23.75% on the class B notes to 2.00% on the class G notes.

Much of that growth appears to have happened since the beginning of the year. JAAA's AUM was $5.3 billion at the end of 2023, suggesting a 94% increase.

Notes are expected to pay investors yields of 5.6% on the F1+ rated A1 notes to 5.6% on the A-rated C notes.

All the notes benefit from total hard credit enhancements built into the structure, representing 3.5% of the pool balance, which includes an initial reserve of 1.0%. and non-declining 2.5% in overcollateralization.

Another positive is that 87.3% of the leases are open-ended contracts, where the lessee bears the residual value risk of the vehicle when the leases mature.

Credit support includes subordination of 3.5% from the B and C notes, excess spread of 14% and a reserve account that will start at zero on closing, then build up to 5% of the pool's invested amount.

The transaction will not have a set collateral pool at closing, but a prefunding account will support issued notes during an initial two-month prefunding period.

Slated to close on June 13, Regional Management Issuance will pay notes on the 15 of each month, beginning in July 2024. With a May 31, 2024 initial cut-off date, the transaction has a three-year revolving period ending May 31, 2027.

The AA, A and BBB notes have 12.7%, 12.5% and 7.0% in credit support, which included excess spread.

Yields on the notes are expected to range between 6.36% on the AA- and Aa2 notes--as rated by KBRA and Moody's Ratings, respectively–to 10.08% on the BB notes, as rated by KBRA.

The latest note sale is within the February securitization's two-year revolving period. It brings the total issuance to $1 billion and the notes have a maturity date of February 15, 2029.

Urschel has covered complex esoteric asset-backed securities such as whole business, digital infrastructure and energy asset securitization. Chambers USA ranks Urschel in band 1 for whole business securitizations group.

All three tranches have a May 15, 2030 final maturity date and are expected to yield 5.4% on the three-month interpolated yield curve.

Pricing guidance on the deal puts yields on the AAA notes at 5.9% and they range to 9.1% on the B- notes, and all of the certificates are priced over the three-month interpolated yield curve.

The portfolio consists of about 75.8% PPA agreements and 24% lease agreements, when measured by customer contracts with monthly payments

The pool luxury vehicle loans, which represent 5.4% of the pool, an increase from 4.0% from the level seen in VEROS 2023-1. The luxury vehicles had an average balance of $227,457, compared with $17,681 for all the loans in the pool.