Securitization

With little transitional disruption, the bigger players on the non-agency side could gain a hefty share of non-owner-occupied mortgage volume as a result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps on such purchases, a KBRA analysis finds.

The deal was constructed under Angel Oak’s social-bond framework, in which the firm intends to use the proceeds to help finance residential loans for underserved borrowers.

Analysts at HSBC Holdings PLC reported last month that 82% of employees globally say they’d like to work remotely at least one day a week in the future, citing Colliers International data. A separate CBRE survey showed a plurality seeking two to three days a week.

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

Flatt said the combination of strong markets and asset sales means there’s enough capital on hand for its planned $6.5 billion privatization of Brookfield Property Partners LP, and the repurchase of its own shares, to soak up some of the new equity being issued in the transaction.

If the lender's trust opts to upsize its second bond offering of 2021, the $2 billion-plus transaction would be Santander's biggest in the post-crisis era.

The two companies each priced on Wednesday each firm's second aggregated pool of non-QM loans this year.

The multiborrower CMBS deal includes 71 single-tenant properties, representing more than 40% of the pool.

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

The 30-acre luxury retail development is among four investment-grade-worthy loans included in the multiborrower deal.

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.

According to Moody’s Investors Service, nearly 73% of the 33-obligor pool for ACRES Commercial Realty 2021-FL1 are apartment buildings that lack current revenue streams due to property rehabilitation efforts or being under transition.

Defaults and delinquencies are below pre-pandemic levels for online consumer loans held in securitization pools, but Fitch is concerned normalization may be shortlived as expanded unemployment benefits and other stimulus support programs draw to a close.

The complex, among the tallest buildings in San Francisco, is one of two Trump-linked office towers that Vornado is refinancing.