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Avant Loans Funding Trust 2021-REV1 is a $200 million note offering backed by loans underwritten through its Avant platform. The $500 million OneMain Financial Issuance Trust 2021-1 is the first deal of the year for OneMain, which has previously issued 23 consumer loan securitizations and five auto-loan ABS deals.

The initial $1.31 billion pool may be potentially upsized to $1.53 billion.

This week, Moody’s Investors Service projected elevated credit-loss expectations for a new subprime auto-loan securitization from Veros Credit, even though the new deal has several improved credit metrics compared to the company’s prior ABS offering in March 2020.

Verizon Master Trust, Series 2021-1 is the first series from the new platform which will periodically issue notes that – similar to bank credit-card ABS structures –will be designated to specific groups of accounts.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of May 7-13

The bonds backed by the primarily non-prime unsecured receivables have preliminary ratings of BBB (low) from DBRS Morningstar and BBB- from Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The rental-car firm's next securitization of its rental car fleet is just the second since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, and is buoyed by pent-up business and tourist travel demand for vehicle-rental services.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of April 30-May 6

Goeasy would join the likes of Canadian non-prime lender Fairstone Financial Inc., which sold its inaugural ABS transaction in 2019. Also that year, Home Capital Group Inc. priced the first deal pooling non-prime Canadian home loans since 2007.