Finance

LTC Global is one of the market leaders in a "relatively new" esoteric asset class of acquiring and financing insurance commission assets of life and healthcare insurance products, says DBRS.

The real estate investment trust, along with co-borrower Stellar Management, obtained a $675 million mortgage from four banks; they are cashing out $113 million of equity in the process.

The groups applauded a proposal to establish minimum GSE capital requirements, but called for more immediate steps to release the companies from conservatorship.

The original $312 million triple-A notes are being replaced with six separately priced Class A note tranches, including two fixed-rate securities classes

The rental car giant is issuing approximately $213 million each of notes maturing in July 2021 and July 2023 from its revolving master trust, Hertz Vehicle Financing II LP, according to rating agency presale reports.

The concentration of loans with terms of 73-75 months has breached 13%, after ranging from between 10-12% from five previous AART issues since 2016.

The 10-year, fixed-rate term of the $1.75 billion interest-only loan may raise some eyebrows, though the owners still have "implied equity" of $1.7 billion in the 2.2 million square foot property, per Moody's Investors Service.

New securitizations backed by reverse mortgages are now at a low not seen in two years, signaling that higher volumes seen in recent months may be tapering off.

In Santander Consumer USA's third subprime shelf offering of 2018, new cars represent 55.8% of the collateral. In previous deals dating to 2013 new-car concentrations did not exceed 40.9%.

The borrowers in the pool of collateral have lower FICO scores, and the size of a prefunding account has risen to 25% of the initial balance from 16% for Marriott's prior deal, completed in August 2017.

Five classes of notes will be issued in the transaction, BBVA Consumer Auto 2018-1, which is backed by a pool of well-seasoned loans on new and used cars that will revolve for an initial period of 1.5 years.

The $278.3 million RCMF 2018-FL2 also has unusually heavy exposure to apartment buildings, offices and industrial properties that are either vacant or have low occupancy levels, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The average FICO for the pool of lease obligors is at a peak level for GM Financial's shelf, but Fitch expects higher losses on resale values on a pool more heavily dependent on longer-term leases and luxury models.

QSuper Board, an Australian pension fund, is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance a portion of a 52-story office building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The $71.7 billion-asset manager is replacing notes from a 2015-vintage CLO that had been squeezed on asset quality prior to its October 2017 post-reinvestment period.

The $482.5 million deal comes to market as demand for railcar leases is picking up as the result of a boost in intermodal traffic that began last year, according to S&P Global Ratings.

The $52 billion in year-to-date volume in resets of collateralized loan obligations is nearly outpacing new-paper issuance of $53.5 billion, reports LPC.

IH 2018-SFR1 refinances three earlier transactions (one each from 2013, 2014 and 2015) and is initially sized at $1.1 billion; it may be upsized to $1.3 billion, depending on investor demand.

The new notes are not being distributed proportionally across the capital stack, however; instead the refinancing will result in slightly higher subordination for the senior, triple-A-rated Class A notes.

The El Segundo, Calif. company is selling $100 million of bonds backed by a revolving pool of loans secured by precious metals as well as some of its own inventory of cash and gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.