Finance

Global Lending Services returns to double-A status in its new $299.4M transaction, while American Credit Acceptance issued another AAA-rated deal with a substantial prefunding account feature.

All five – Plaza West Covina Mall (Calif.), Franklin Park Mall (Ohio), Parkway Plaza (Calif.), Capital Mall (Wash.), and Great Northern Mall (Ohio) – were built in the 1970s and have JCPenney or Sears as a major tenant.

The holdings demonstrate “resiliency over several credit cycles, with low realized principal losses and robust returns for CLO equity,” managers say.

Changes that federal regulators are contemplating to the Volcker Rule could pave the way for CLOs to resume investing in high yield bonds, which they currently cannot do without putting themselves off limits to banks.

Fitch Ratings, which has only rated two other CRE CLOs over the past three years, joins Moody's Investors Service and Kroll Bond Rating Agency on the $514.2 million transaction.

The volume of "true" new-issue CLOs (excluding reissued deals of existing collateralized loan portfolios) have declined for four consecutive months after February's high-water 2018 mark of $14.7 billion. But JPMorgan maintains its $115 billion-$130 billion annualized forecast.

Blame the decline in the oil and gas industry; many 2014 vintage deals have exposure to a number of multifamily and hotel properties in North Dakota and Texas, according to Fitch.

Exempting CLOs from “skin in the game” rules allows managers to unload more of the risk in these transaction; increasingly, they are doing this by issuing a second tranche of speculative- grade notes.

Since its inception, the qualified mortgage rule has been synonymous with loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or guaranteed by government agencies. But a broader QM definition could change that by creating more competitive private-label options.

Anticipated changes to the qualified mortgage rule will give lenders more options and force them to rethink their views on risk.

For the first time, the collateral includes lease contracts from its standalone Genesis luxury sedan line; two models, the G80 (base price $41,000) and G90 (base price $68,000) account for 4% of the total pool balance.

The subprime lender could lose a big partner now that Fiat Chrysler has officially announced it will form its own auto finance unit, and the two are negotiating an end to their 6-year-old relationship.

Despite a steep drop in average FICO and increase in extended-term loans, DriveTime is shaving overcollateralization levels thanks in part to improved performance from its outstanding securitization portfolios.

The biggest decline was in the delinquency rates for offices and retail, but late payments on multifamily and industrial CMBS loans increased.

Blackstone originally included 21 of the 23 properties as collateral for a $2 billion loan issuance and securitization in 2016 to partially fund its $8.8B BioMed Realty buyout.

There are almost 7 million coastal homes facing more than $1.6 trillion in potential storm-surge reconstruction expenses this year, representing a 6.6% cost increase from last year's hurricane season.

Fiat Chrysler is expected to announce Friday that it will establish its own captive finance unit in the U.S. The move could be bad news for its lending partners.

The investment firm obtained $430 million of financing on its leasehold interests in 355,000 square feet of retail and office space, but it just lost its one office tenant, Amtrak.

The borrowers behind the $401.6 million COLT 2018-2 have weighted average liquid reserves of $426,633, or nearly twice the level of borrowers backing a deal completed in January.

Noria 2018-1 is a €1.6 billion securitization of unsecured personal loans, of which 30% are debt consolidation accounts.