Donna M. Mitchell

Initial hard credit enhancement ranges from 24.40% on class A notes to 7.70% on the class D notes. At closing, overcollateralization will be 6.70%, building to a target of 12.50%.

The A1 and A2 notes have a revolving period during which investors will receive fixed-rate and floating-rate payments, respectively.

Williams co-founded financial advisory and consulting firms Simatree and Galway Holdings, and is a retired NBA player and ESPN host.

Overall, the loans also have a weighted average (WA) FICO score of 742, an original cumulative loan-to-value ratio of 77.9%, and debt-to-income ratio of 37.5%.

A cash collateral account secures the principal payments, which makes SBNA's credit-linked notes deal a bit different from other bank-sponsored credit-linked note deals—albeit similar to SBCLN 2023-A.

The loans have strong borrower characteristics, such as a weighted average (WA) FICO score of 733, and WA seasoning of 10 months.

Classes A, B and C benefit from hard credit enhancement levels of 60.80%, 42.80% and 24.57%, respectively, an increase from the comparison deal.

Originators funded 72.6% of the loans in 2023, while 16.7% of the loans were funded in 2022 and originators funded the rest between 2021 and 2018.

ABS for 2023 is expected to drop 21.2% from 2022 volume, but the industry total for 2024, could give it a 4.1% increase.

The underlying mortgage is a two-year, floating-rate commercial mortgage loan that is slated to mature on Dec. 9, 2025, and the loan has three one-year extension options.

Some 54 contracts and 39 obligors, with an average contract balance of about $14.46 million, and the average exposure to an obligor is about $22.79 million.

The National Credit Union Administration insures Space Coast's deposits, with the power to repudiate the prime retail auto contracts or re-characterize receivables, potentially reducing or delaying note payments.

BANK5 stands out from most standard conduit transactions, which have included mostly 10-year term loans. Fitch's historical loan performance analysis, finds five-year loans show a lower probability of default, comparatively.

The reference pool that supports the credit-linked notes contain 97,444 fully amortizing, fixed-rate prime auto loans that have a total balance of $2.46 billion.

The securitization charge is starting from a low point, which represents about 1.9% of the total monthly electricity bill, while the ratepayer base is diverse and economically stable.

While Pagaya searches for a permanent successor, the company has named deputy CFO Evangelos Perros as interim CFO. Perros himself was named as deputy CFO in September 2023.

All of the class A notes have total hard credit enhancement levels of 22.35%, and notes have legal final maturity dates ranging from Nov. 15, 2024 through Dec. 15, 2032.

The notes benefit from subordination, overcollateralization, a reserve account and excess spread. Nelnet Servicing is also on the deal as a backup servicer.

Classes B, C, D and E benefit from credit enhancement levels amounting to 41.35%, 28.45%, 15.30% and 6.15%, and enhancements include a reserve account, excess spread and subordination.

The deal could be upsized to $1.3 billion in issuance, and benefit from several layers of credit enhancement, including a reserve fund, excess spread and overcollateralization.