Securitization

Loans on used cars, extended to borrowers with prime credit characteristics, make up the reference pool of assets.

Money-market funds with cash to invest are doing more repo — extending overnight credit to owners of Treasuries, causing the rates on the loans to decline.

Aside from that, three collateral performance trigger events—delinquency, default and extension rate—that can force an early amortization are structured into the deal.

The pool is diversified, with its top obligor accounting for 3.2% of the pool balance, and the top 10 obligors account for 14.1%.

Coupons range from 4.4% on the noted rates P1/A1+ from Moody's and S&P, to 5.66% on the notes rated Ba1/BB+.

FHF sources almost all its loans—most recently 96% in 2024—from franchise dealers.

The deal is structured as a public securitization, under Rule 144A, and is supported by lending indirectly through more than 1,100 partnerships across the country.

The pass-through certificates are supported by a full pool of amortizing loans, which have no interest-only periods.

Now the structured mortgage securities are cheap enough that CLO investors are watching them more closely, according to strategists and investors.

The United Auto 2025-1 series of notes has a more mixed subordination element compared with the previous deal.