Industrywide, car sales were down last year, but there were record purchases of Civics and brisk second-half sales of the redesigned Accord; this is reflected in the model concentrations of HAROT 2018-2.
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Like the sponsor's February transaction, this one is backed by midsize and larger business jets, a volatile asset class; it amortizes more slowly and has looser restrictions on extending the terms of leases and loans.
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The $100 million Series 2018-1 notes will rank on an equal basis with the $900 million of notes Coinstar issued from the same master trust in May 2017, all are collateralized by nearly 20,000 coin-counting kiosks located in major retail stores.
June 15 -
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%.
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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.
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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.
June 14
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CLO securities pay out interest pegged to the three-month London interbank offered rate, but loans used as collateral are increasingly switching to one-month Libor and the spread between the two benchmarks has widened significantly.
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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.
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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.
June 14 -
The agency will have to rework its strategy for amending its payday lending rule after a federal court rebuffed efforts to stop the rule from going into effect.
June 13 -
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.
June 13 -
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.
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With the question of a federal charter still looming, Treasury's last report on changes to the financial regulatory system will focus on nonbanks and new tech startups.
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