Securitization

Disruptions over the past two years and the portents of the FSOC report make it well worth considering how repo financers should respond when borrowers become distressed.

Wells Fargo has tightened up a few credit characteristics in its latest offering of $826 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities notes.

The pool of pass-through commercial mortgage-backed securities is mostly made up of single-family and multifamily residences.

The mortgage real estate investment trust has been a first-mover regarding innovations in the private securitized market, and others tend to follow its lead.

Crédito Real targets borrowers with little or no credit history as well as bad credit, who are undocumented or were recently discharged from federal bankruptcies.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of April 9-16

Investors are pouring money into bonds backed by U.S. offices, shrugging off concerns about whether workers will ever fill them up like they did before the pandemic.

The $1.28 billion securitization includes a collateral pool with a higher WA FICO, lower LTV and shorter original terms that its previous loan ABS deal issued last October.

Oaktree Re VI 2021-1 will market $531 million in CRT notes that will provide NMI with partial reinsurance on a $45B pool of GSE-eligible loans.

The conduit transaction will carry a $120 million portion of a $750 million debt financing package for Facebook's newly built Oculus R&D center near San Francisco.

Also launching deals last week were Santander Consumer USA and DriveTime Automotive Group, according to ratings agency presale reports.

The inaugural securitization includes 447 30-year loans with average balances of $863,206.

The $1.15 billion CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2021-2 could potentially be upsized to $1.56 billion, according to presale reports from Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings. CarMax upsized its first deal of the year that priced in January.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of April 2-8

The FFELP loans carry a minimum 97% guarantee of principal and interest from the U.S. Department of Education.

The two buildings included in the single-borrower transaction were both 94.8% leased as of February 2021.

Horizon Land Co. is securitizing a $488 million single-asset, single-borrower loan that will fund its purchase of 93 rent-site communities in the Midwest and Southwest regions.

Deals, trends and research in structured finance and asset-backed securities for the week of March 26-April 1

The deal will be Ford's 14th securitization from its FordREV shelf, which has eight outstanding deals that remain in their revolving periods.

The compact-tractor manufacturer is supporting its first 2021 securitization with 4.75% CE, after two previous deals were closed with 5.5% enhancement levels to account for potential COVID-19 macroeconomic disruption.