Securitization

The investment research firm plans to merge DBRS' ratings business with its existing Morningstar Credit Ratings Service.

The collateral will include $147.3 million in well-seasoned loans that were part of HESAA’s 2009 issuance, as well as up to $155 million in new loans that the trust will originate through an Oct. 31, 2020 prefunding and recycling period for the next academic calendar year.

S&P Global Ratings reports that cumulative loss levels on collateralized portfolios of subprime auto loans fell to 7.11% in March, compared to 8.67% in February. That figure was also down from 7.61% in March 2018, and the lowest since 2016.

Unlike Japan’s three so-called megabanks, which are under strict international capital rules because of their importance to the global financial system, many regional lenders have less stringent requirements, giving them more room to have risk assets on their balance sheets.

One of the most active investors in Europe’s CLO market may be about to test the loyalty of the managers that provide it with triple-A paper by asking for a higher spread.

Kubota Credit Corp.’s $800 million asset-backed transaction is not expected to generate any additional losses than forecast for the finance company’s previous ABS in 2018, according to presale reports.

A reincarnated version of collateralized debt obligations, backed by both high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, offers investors some of the best relative-value plays in fixed-income, says a Credit Suisse panelist at IMN's CLO and leveraged loan investors' conference in New York.

A Davis & Gilbert poll of market participants showed more expect delinquencies over the next one to two years, likely requiring credit enhancement in future deals.

Prepayments tied to repeated VA loan refinancing activity have had an adverse effect on Ginnie’s mortgage securities that persists despite countermeasures. The government bond issuer is making new plans to address the impact.

The $403.1 million Atlas Senior Loan Fund XIV will have seven classes of notes, as well as a combination securities tranche that will make up all or portions of three subordinate classes.

The Lineage Logistics transaction is the largest single-borrower, large-loan deal since the Blackstone Group tapped the CMBS market for a $2.5 billion single-loan deal backed by 169 industrial properties and two data centers.

The $161.5 million transaction backed by leasehold interests in the Jimmy Buffett-themed luxury hotel will include a $49.3M cash-out payment to the Denver-based PE firm.

With prospects for government-sponsored enterprise reform improving, players in the private residential mortgage-backed securities market are starting to think about how they could better compete against the GSEs while awaiting change.

Japanese lawmakers have also begun grilling government ministers on risks tied to CLOs investments by the biggest buyer, Norinchukin Bank, which has been ramping up purchases of the highest-rated securities.

Both transactions are the second this year for each of the automotive captive-finance firms, and will build on a tally of 19 prime auto loan ABS pools to date this year totaling $21.44 billion.

S&P Global Ratings forecasts lower losses in subprime lender American Credit Acceptance's next auto-loan securitization, citing the inclusion of performing loans transferred from a recently called deal.

Social Finance is supplying lower levels of credit enhancement to its third consumer-loan securitization of 2019.

The lender has not sponsored an asset-backed transaction since 2007, according to presale reports.

The portion of Americans with a car loan climbed to 35% last year from just 20% in 1999, the New York Fed said in a blog post. Auto loans first overtook mortgages in 2013 and have pulled further ahead every year since.

Shawbrook's debut securitization of "buy-to-let" mortgages issued to UK landlords will pay coupons based on the sterling-based overnight index average benchmark, rather than Libor.