Credit enhancement for the senior, triple-A-rated notes is in line with recent Honda transactions, but the pool of collateral is concentrated (12%) in Texas and Florida, making it vulnerable to economic disruption from hurricanes.
The San Francisco-based bank's first prime auto loan securitization in two years includes a sizable portion of loans (60% of the pool) with terms exceeding six years.
The €684.8 million transaction is backed primarily by new-car leases to German prime borrowers. It's the 21st German securitization by FCE Bank, Ford's UK-based captive finance arm.
The rental car giant is more dependent than ever on asset-backed financing after being downgraded in May, making high yield bond issuance prohibitively expensive.
The credit quality of the collateral is lower, by several metrics, than that of Exeter's prior deal; however, S&P Global expects cumulative net losses to be in the same range, from 20.1%-21.1%.
Ford Motor Credit, GM Financial and Fifth Third Bancorp are marketing a combined $3.4 billion in prime auto loan and lease asset-backed securities, according to presale reports published Thursday.
S&P says exclusion of the value of "personal contract purchase" balloon payments from Santander's Motor 2017-2 transaction will benefit the deal through excess spread and recoveries from contract defaults.
The $418m OSCAR US 2017-2 transaction is the 7th securitization of prime auto loans originated by Orient Corp. (or Orico) in Japan and packaged into U.S.-dollar denominated securities.
