Securitization

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The $500 million in similarly structured deals pool insurance-premium finance loans.

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Aside from the assets' credit quality, the bank's 60 years of experience originating and servicing auto loans is a boost to the notes' credit.

Borrowers in GCAR 2025-1's underlying collateral pool have a slightly lower FICO score than the GCAR 2024-4 deal, and they bought more new cars.

Among the deal's main credit strengths is that the real estate assets are protected by robust physical security, and 83.5% of the tenants have investment-grade credit ratings.

For conservative and risk-averse insurers, the vehicles are a relatively cheap and safe way to take part in the private credit boom that's financing mostly unlisted and leveraged companies.

The deal will sell two series of notes from a new master trust, secured by revenues from three data centers in Phoenix and Toronto.

All the class A notes benefit from total initial hard credit enhancement totaling 21.0% of the pool balance. Classes B, C and D benefit from 17.0%, 11.5% and 6.5%, respectively.

RG&E, series 2025-A, is the second utility cost recovery securitization this week, and is another first-time issuer.

Both forward-flow agreements and the larger asset-backed securitization market are becoming more popular, as consumer debt is growing.

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The GMALT 2025-1 securitization has just 24.4% of contracts with original leases longer than 36 months. It's the lowest level for the platform, a credit positive.

Tenants also have a high average credit quality, with 75.9% of them having at least an investment grade rating, and lease assets underlying the class A notes have a loan-to-value (LTV) ratio limited to 70%.

The riskiest portion of the securitization, known as the equity, was placed with investors including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and family offices

Residential customers made up 70.1% of NYSEG's sales revenue, while commercial and industrial customers account for the other 30% of sales. The latter is a relatively high exposure for such deals.