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For one, the deal is expected to include only Japanese foreign obligors—historically strong and comparable to U.S. obligors—from the pool of 9,333 loans.

This is ECMC's first securitization of a pool of rehabilitated loans since 2021.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Luke Gillam and Bank of America Corp.'s Murad Khaled, set to join AlbaCore Capital and Apollo Global Management, are the latest in a growing list of top bankers to make the leap.

Five-year notes were the worst performer among Treasury benchmarks, with yields rising by more than 5 basis points, though all rose by at least 4 basis points.

After a three-year absence, the deal will issue notes repaid from a pool of leases on 22 refinanced assets. Almost all the assets are narrowbody aircraft, representing 87.9% of the pool by value. One widebody accounts for 12.1% of the asset value.

The current pool of borrowers with FICO scores below 700 represents 14.9% of the pool, compared with 13.5% of the 2023-B transaction, according to one analysis.

Awareness of disaster risk has increased in the public and private sectors, and it appears to be prompting more interest in home improvements in particular.

Those metrics were merely a return to solid pre-pandemic levels and do not suggest a deterioration, says Moody's. Yet a broader, and more weakened employment picture is emerging, SMBC Nikko Securities says separately.

In recent weeks, the firm has told structured credit investors that it will be able to soon facilitate secondary trades under the name Atlas SP Securities, a division of Apollo Global Securities.

In the non-prime pool, owner-occupied properties account for most of the assets, at 55.1%; the amount of investor properties represents 41.6% of the deal.