Securitization

Five-year notes were the worst performer among Treasury benchmarks, with yields rising by more than 5 basis points, though all rose by at least 4 basis points.

After a three-year absence, the deal will issue notes repaid from a pool of leases on 22 refinanced assets. Almost all the assets are narrowbody aircraft, representing 87.9% of the pool by value. One widebody accounts for 12.1% of the asset value.

The current pool of borrowers with FICO scores below 700 represents 14.9% of the pool, compared with 13.5% of the 2023-B transaction, according to one analysis.

Those metrics were merely a return to solid pre-pandemic levels and do not suggest a deterioration, says Moody's. Yet a broader, and more weakened employment picture is emerging, SMBC Nikko Securities says separately.

In recent weeks, the firm has told structured credit investors that it will be able to soon facilitate secondary trades under the name Atlas SP Securities, a division of Apollo Global Securities.

In the non-prime pool, owner-occupied properties account for most of the assets, at 55.1%; the amount of investor properties represents 41.6% of the deal.

Investors began pulling funds rapidly after it disclosed last month the departure of Chief Investment Officer Ken Leech amid Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission probes into its trading practices.

Subordination is unchanged on the classes A and B notes, and increased to 1.20% on the 2024-5 series notes, from 1.10% on the 2024-4 series.

In the collaboration, BNP Paribas, the European Union's leading global bank will commit the $5 billion in financing to support investment-grade, asset-backed credit that ATLAS and Apollo will source from their issuer clients.

Fed policymakers, in their new projections for their benchmark rate, have a median estimate of 3.4% for the end of next year — reflecting a potential further 1.5 percentage points.