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Credit supply bumps up with Lendbuzz LOC and Janus BBB CLO ETF

Liquidity is flowing to the consumer finance and collateralized loan obligation markets with recent updates.

BHI has extended the revolving line of credit agreement with Lendbuzz to $50 million, to provide working capital for its consumer auto finance operations driven by artificial intelligence (AI). BHI, the U.S. division of Bank Hapoalim, a full-scale commercial bank, has a longstanding relationship and served as the agent of two of Lendbuzz's early warehouse facilities in 2018-2020.

Lendbuzz's proprietary, AI-based auto finance platform offers consumers a modern and digital lending experience across the credit spectrum. Consumers with no credit file, a thin credit file of those who fall under "near-prime" accounts for more than 40% of adults in the U.S.

Elsewhere, the B-BBB Collateralized Loan Obligation ETF has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management, Janus Henderson Investors announced on Monday. This tightens Janus' hold on the CLO ETF market, since JBBB is only the second CLO ETF to reach $1 billion in AUM. The first CLO ETF to hit that milestone is another Janus product, the AAA CLO ETF.

This gives Janus the two largest CLO ETFs, and a market share of more than 85% of all CLO ETF managed. JAAA alone, which surpassed $10 billion in AUM in June 2024, represents over 90% of all AAA CLO ETFs.

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