Securitization

The concentration of loans with terms of 73-75 months has breached 13%, after ranging from between 10-12% from five previous AART issues since 2016.

The 10-year, fixed-rate term of the $1.75 billion interest-only loan may raise some eyebrows, though the owners still have "implied equity" of $1.7 billion in the 2.2 million square foot property, per Moody's Investors Service.

New securitizations backed by reverse mortgages are now at a low not seen in two years, signaling that higher volumes seen in recent months may be tapering off.

In Santander Consumer USA's third subprime shelf offering of 2018, new cars represent 55.8% of the collateral. In previous deals dating to 2013 new-car concentrations did not exceed 40.9%.

The borrowers in the pool of collateral have lower FICO scores, and the size of a prefunding account has risen to 25% of the initial balance from 16% for Marriott's prior deal, completed in August 2017.

Five classes of notes will be issued in the transaction, BBVA Consumer Auto 2018-1, which is backed by a pool of well-seasoned loans on new and used cars that will revolve for an initial period of 1.5 years.

The $278.3 million RCMF 2018-FL2 also has unusually heavy exposure to apartment buildings, offices and industrial properties that are either vacant or have low occupancy levels, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

The average FICO for the pool of lease obligors is at a peak level for GM Financial's shelf, but Fitch expects higher losses on resale values on a pool more heavily dependent on longer-term leases and luxury models.

QSuper Board, an Australian pension fund, is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance a portion of a 52-story office building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The $71.7 billion-asset manager is replacing notes from a 2015-vintage CLO that had been squeezed on asset quality prior to its October 2017 post-reinvestment period.

The $482.5 million deal comes to market as demand for railcar leases is picking up as the result of a boost in intermodal traffic that began last year, according to S&P Global Ratings.

The $52 billion in year-to-date volume in resets of collateralized loan obligations is nearly outpacing new-paper issuance of $53.5 billion, reports LPC.

IH 2018-SFR1 refinances three earlier transactions (one each from 2013, 2014 and 2015) and is initially sized at $1.1 billion; it may be upsized to $1.3 billion, depending on investor demand.

The new notes are not being distributed proportionally across the capital stack, however; instead the refinancing will result in slightly higher subordination for the senior, triple-A-rated Class A notes.

The El Segundo, Calif. company is selling $100 million of bonds backed by a revolving pool of loans secured by precious metals as well as some of its own inventory of cash and gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.

Global Lending Services returns to double-A status in its new $299.4M transaction, while American Credit Acceptance issued another AAA-rated deal with a substantial prefunding account feature.

All five – Plaza West Covina Mall (Calif.), Franklin Park Mall (Ohio), Parkway Plaza (Calif.), Capital Mall (Wash.), and Great Northern Mall (Ohio) – were built in the 1970s and have JCPenney or Sears as a major tenant.

Changes that federal regulators are contemplating to the Volcker Rule could pave the way for CLOs to resume investing in high yield bonds, which they currently cannot do without putting themselves off limits to banks.

Fitch Ratings, which has only rated two other CRE CLOs over the past three years, joins Moody's Investors Service and Kroll Bond Rating Agency on the $514.2 million transaction.

The volume of "true" new-issue CLOs (excluding reissued deals of existing collateralized loan portfolios) have declined for four consecutive months after February's high-water 2018 mark of $14.7 billion. But JPMorgan maintains its $115 billion-$130 billion annualized forecast.