Securitization

Progress Residential is bringing its next securitization of single-family rental properties to market, even as concerns mount on the depth of pandemic-driven tenant forbearance and delinquency trends.

Sellers are currently willing to concede discounts of around 5%, while bidders are hoping for about 20% off pre-pandemic prices. That estimated gap, which is likely wider in specific cases, has put a freeze on deals.

The Flagship Credit Auto Trust 2020-2 transaction is only the second subprime auto-loan ABS transaction in the last two months, following the pricing last week of an American Credit Acceptance-sponsored $209.3 million bond offering.

First Republic is preparing a private-label residential mortgage-backed securities transaction and could be the first bank to launch this type of deal since the coronavirus first roiled U.S. markets in mid-March.

Ratings agencies are projecting slightly increased bond losses for American Honda Finance Co.’s next billion-dollar auto-loan securitization.

Unlike other asset-backed issuers in the auto or mortgage sector, SoFi was able to market SoFi Professional Loan Program 2020-C Trust without additional investor protections above what it offered in deals closed before the COVID-19 outbreak.

The central bank will disclose information on a monthly basis about its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility and its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility.

The worst recession since the Great Depression is prompting indebted companies to default, and increasingly more will do so in a way that’s harder for investors to detect.

First, J. Crew. Now Neiman Marcus. Flashing red: J.C. Penney, Hertz and many more. The coronavirus has crushed the life out of some venerable household names.

VW Credit becomes the seventh lender to offer asset-backed bonds since the Federal Reserve announced TALF backing of prime auto ABS notes to support stimulus efforts for the COVID-19 ravaged market.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are backing the first commercial mortgage-backed securities activity in two months, through two deals that exclude hotel or department store retail assets that are most exposed to pandemic-related stresses.

Ford Motor Credit has emerged with a new issuance of auto-loan backed securities, joining a select group of prime auto ABS issuers confident in drawing in investors despite a gloomy, pandemic-afflicted outlook for the automotive industry.

Over 236,000 prime and subprime vehicle-loan borrowers received payment deferrals of between 30 and 120 days during the early economic turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the ratings agency.

Of 900 deals reporting data over the last month, 21% have narrowed or eliminated payments to the equity. Some analysts expect about one in three deals will eventually limit payments to their riskiest securities.

Apollo Global Management Inc. faces the prospect of having to hand back earlier profits from several of its funds as its holdings were hit hard by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. leveraged loan market is springing back to life with new deals for T-Mobile US Inc. and Delta Air Lines on deck for investors willing to take on risk.

Falling used-car values, loan forbearance programs and economic uncertainty are weighing on the lower-end of the subprime auto finance sector.

More details have emerged about the damage the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting on the hospitality industry. One servicer alone has received 2,000 workout requests in the past month.

Rising default levels have produced strain on many collateralized loan obligations, many of which are now approaching breaches of covenant tests on minimum weighted-average ratings factors and maximum holdings of triple-C rated loan assets.

The Distressed Credit Opportunities Fund III money pool, dubbed Disco III, will target leveraged loans, high-yield bonds and collateralized loan obligations.