Europe

The £571.6 million Elvet Mortgages 2018-1 is the first mortgage bond offering rated by Moody's Investors Service to include loans that were originated using a mobile phone application.

The deal, which comes just a year after the commodity trading firm's last securitization, represents 7.85% of assets in a revolving trust; it may be upsized to $500 million.

Brass No. 7 is Accord's ninth overall securitization of prime mortgages for owner-occupied homes and the second to feature a revolving period.

Collateralized loan obligations denominated in pounds sterling were once a tough sell; two recent deals from Barclays and PGIM indicate that this is changing.

Only 9.6% of €1.08 billion of collateral meets the criteria for responsible lending and borrowing set by the National Institute for Family Finance in the Netherlands, down from 22.9% for the prior deal.

The initial collateral for Tower Bridge Funding No. 3 consists of 1,737 loans totaling £375.5 million, and there will be a £125 million prefunding account that can be used to acquire additional collateral before the first interest payment date.

Santander has commonly offered multicurrency (dollar and pound-sterling) notes through its Holmes master trust platform.

Volkswagen Bank's Driver 15 is its first German auto-loan securitization since March, as Europe's largest auto-finance company furthers a comeback from the 2015 VW diesel-engine scandal.

The £325 million Dryden 63 CLO, sponsored by PGIM, will issue six classes of sterling-denominated notes; Barclays’ £4.5 billion Sirius Funding is issuing three tranches in three different currencies.

Mindful Wealth, an investment firm based in Singapore, is raising money to put to work in some of the riskier tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations, those rated BBB and B.

Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2018 Auburn 12 Plc is backed by 2,913 properties, all of which were previously securitized in the sponsor’s 2015-vintage Auburn Securities 9 portfolio.

The triple-A rated senior tranche of Ares European CLO X has a coupon of 85 basis points above Euribor, an indication that a four-month widening trend in Europe CLO spreads continues; the deal is expected to close in September.

Tikehau CLO IV B.V. will control €400 million (UA$466.5 million) in mostly European leveraged loans and high-yield bonds (with an allowance for up to 25% of non-euro-denominated assets), according to Fitch Ratings.

The 1,210-loans backing Gemgarto 2018-1 all finance owner-occupied loans, and none rely on self-certified or "fast-track" loans, according to presale reports from Moody's Investors Service and DBRS.

The €414.2 million CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XI will issue exchangeable shares for four classes of notes; this allows the fund to hold bonds without putting itself off-limits to U.S. banks.

In the U.S., the 12-month trailing default rate fell to 3.4% in June from 4% in March, while in Europe it declined to 2.2% from 2.8% over the quarter. Globally, defaults stood at 2.9%, down from 3.4% in the first quarter.

Annisa CLO was originally issued in August 2016, just before risk retention regulation took effect, but was the firm's first deal to be dually compliant with both U.S. rules (which no longer apply to CLOs) and European rules.

Bavarian Sky UK 2 plc is as yet unsized; the collateral will initially consist of 70% new and 30% used primarily BWM and MINI vehicles, 56% of which use diesel fuel, according to Moody's Investors Service.

It's another example of what appears to be tailoring tranches to meet the tenor and yield requirements of specific investors; the deal, GMS Euro CLO 2014-1, was also upsized to €508 million from €368.3 million originally.

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.