Finance

Horizon Land Co. is securitizing a $488 million single-asset, single-borrower loan that will fund its purchase of 93 rent-site communities in the Midwest and Southwest regions.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of March 26-April 1

The deal will be Ford's 14th securitization from its FordREV shelf, which has eight outstanding deals that remain in their revolving periods.

Starting Thursday, firms should stop issuing new loans, bonds and securitizations tied to the discredited benchmark, according to the Bank of England.

The compact-tractor manufacturer is supporting its first 2021 securitization with 4.75% CE, after two previous deals were closed with 5.5% enhancement levels to account for potential COVID-19 macroeconomic disruption.

A continuing macroeconomic recovery fueled by the federal government's stimulus payments to consumers has benefited GMF as well.

The Spanish bank is broadening its lending to speculative-rated borrowers from its traditional focus on high-grade debt, Noya said in an interview. It’s been building a team to get more high-yield mandates in Europe and the U.S.

A white paper released Monday by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee outlined how issuers could (and perhaps should) model new floating-rate transactions using a compounded version of the interbank overnight rate instead of Libor.

The lasting effects of work-from-home practices driven by the COVID-19 pandemic could slash some office property values to less than half of their original value – and lead to rating downgrades on affected CMBS transactions, according to Fitch Ratings.

Troubled properties aren’t coming to market because owners have little pressure to sell. Commercial real estate prices have held up – or even risen – because so much money is chasing so few deals.

The first-time securitization by the online commercial-finance will involve more than half of the San Francisco-based company's managed accounts portfolio.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of March 19-25

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she prefers to have the Financial Stability Oversight Council flag hazardous activities by nonbanks rather than subject specific firms to heightened supervision.

JPMorgan Chase and Loop Capital Markets have submitted pitches suggesting ways to structure $1 billion of bonds that Governor Gavin Newsom proposed to build vehicle charging stations

Pretium Partners and Ares Management recently closed on a $2.5 billion acquisition of SFR owner/operator Front Yard Residential Corp., in a deal first announced last October.

Volumes were at a record high in the final quarter of 2020 but lenders didn’t make quite as much since gains on loan sales to the secondary market fell.

Legacy contracts using the London interbank offered rate — which is set to be phased out at the end of this year — were granted a reprieve to mid-2023. However, there is no wiggle room on when the rate will expire for new deals, said Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Randal Quarles.

A PIMCO-sponsored HELOC securitzation, as well as a mortgage-insurance linked transaction, are the latest examples of issuers getting a head start on switching to an expected replacement benchmark for Libor.

The $1.18 billion deal is also the first to include Tesla’s mid-range Model Y vehicle (with an MSRP of $54, 119) that makes up 36% of the securitized value of the TALT 2021-A pool, according to a presale report from Moody’s Investors Service.

The FFELP sector would become awash with liquidity as the federally-guaranteed loans are paid and the most distressed borrowers avoid default, market participants said.