New York, May 22, 2013 -- Moody's ABCP rating actions for the seven-day period ending May
20, 2013
NO RATING IMPACT ON THE FOLLOWING ABCP PROGRAMS DURING THE PERIOD MAY
14, 2013 THROUGH MAY 20, 2013:
Moody's has reviewed the following ABCP programs in conjunction
with the proposed amendments. The amendments, in and of themselves
and at this time, will not result in any rating impact on the respective
programs. For the mentioned programs, Moody's believes that
the amendments do not have an adverse effect on the credit quality of
the securities such that the Moody's ratings are impacted.
Moody's does not express an opinion as to whether the amendment could
have other, non-credit-related effects.
SYNDICATE OF ABCP CONDUITS AMENDS INTEREST IN EXISTING AUTO SECURITIZATION
A syndicate of banks has amended its interest in an existing auto securitization
established for an investment grade-rated automotive manufacturer.
The current facility size of $5.8 billion was increased
to $6.6 billion. The securitization is comprised
of a revolving auto loan facility and a revolving auto lease facility
(up to 50% of the facility limit may consist of auto leases).
The securitization continues to be structured as a revolving facility
with 50% as a 364-day facility and 50% as a 2-year
facility. Each conduit participates in both facilities.
Transaction-specific credit enhancement for the auto loans is comprised
of dynamically sized overcollateralization and excess spread. The
overcollateralization has a 6% floor and the size is determined
by the pool composition. Transaction-specific credit enhancement
for the auto leases is comprised of dynamically sized overcollateralization
and 1% required excess spread. The overcollateralization
has a floor that ranges from 19.75% to 26.25%.
The liquidity facility for each participating conduit is sized at 100%
(plus CP interest) or 102% of the conduit's respective commitment.
The following ABCP conduits participated in the securitization:
• JPMorgan's Chariot Funding LLC and Jupiter Securitization Company,
LLC have combined commitments totaling $750 million and their program-level
credit enhancement remains at 10% of outstanding ABCP.
• Barclays Bank's Sheffield Receivables Corp. has a $700
million commitment and its program-level credit enhancement remains
at 10% of facility limits.
• Citibank's CHARTA, LLC and CIESCO, LLC have combined
commitments totaling $700 million. CHARTA's program-level
credit enhancement remains at 10% of outstanding assets,
while CIESCO's program-level credit enhancement remains at 8%
of outstanding assets.
• Royal Bank of Canada's Old Line Funding, LLC and Thunder
Bay Funding, LLC have combined commitments of $550 and their
program-level credit enhancement remains at 10% of outstanding
ABCP.
• The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ's Gotham Funding Corp.
has a $500 million commitment. Gotham is a fully supported
conduit and does not have program-level credit enhancement.
• BNP Paribas' Starbird Funding Corp. has a $500 million
commitment and its program-level credit enhancement remains at
8% of commitments.
• PNC Bank's Market Street Funding LLC has a $500 million
commitment and its program-level credit enhancement remains at
10% of commitments.
• Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd.'s Working Capital Management
Co., L.P. has a $450 commitment and
is a fully supported conduit.
• Credit Agricole's Atlantic Asset Securitization, LLC has
a $400 million commitment and its program-level credit enhancement
remains at 10% of commitments.
• Société Générale's Barton Capital
LLC has a $400 million commitment and its program-level
credit enhancement remains at 8% of the invested amount.
The remaining commitments are from non-conduit purchasers.
HSBC'S REGENCY ADDS TWO TRADE RECEIVABLES TRANSACTIONS
Regency Assets Ltd/Regency Markets No.1 LLC ("Regency"),
a partially supported, multiseller conduit sponsored by HSBC Bank
Plc ("HSBC", rated Aa3/Prime-1/C) has entered into two trade
receivables transactions. The first transaction is a $375
million facility in respect of assets originated by a U.S.
building materials company and the second transaction is a $90
million facility in respect of assets originated by a U.S.
electronics company.
Both transactions are fully-supported through liquidity facilities
provided by HSBC Bank USA, NA sized at 102% of the purchase
limit. The full support is achieved via a liability-based
borrowing base, which funds for the face amount of CP issued.
Regency has approval to issue ABCP up to transaction limits which aggregate
to USD 12.4 billion and has USD 209.9 million in programme-level
credit enhancement.
INTESA SANPAOLO'S ROMULUS ADDS FULLY-SUPPORTED TRANSACTION
Romulus Funding Corp. ("Romulus"), a partially supported,
hybrid ABCP conduit sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.
("Intesa", rated Baa2/Prime-2/C-) and administered
by Banca IMI Securities Corp., a subsidiary of Banca IMI
S.p.A. (Baa2/Prime-2/C-), has
added a EUR 450 million transaction backed by trade receivables originated
by an Italian equipment lease company.
The transaction is fully supported by a liquidity facility sized at 102%
of the purchase limit. The liquidity facility is provided by Intesa.
As such, our analysis was based on the financial strength of Intesa,
together with the legal structure providing full support, rather
than the credit quality of the assets.
The ABCP issued by Romulus is currently rated Prime-2 (sf).
Romulus has USD 100 million in programme-level credit enhancement,
which was not increased with the inclusion of the transaction due to the
full support provided by Intesa. At the end of April 2013,
Romulus had USD 2.84 billion of ABCP outstanding.
NATIONAL BANK FINANCIAL'S FUSION TRUST AND CLARITY TRUST AMEND PROGRAM
Fusion Trust ("Fusion") and Clarity Trust ("Clarity"),
each a partially supported, multiseller ABCP program sponsored and
administered by National Bank Financial Inc. ("NBF"), a wholly
owned subsidiary of National Bank of Canada ("NBC" rated Aa3/Prime-1/C),
have amended its programs.
For Fusion, the program has been amended to mirror that of Clarity.
In addition, the following amendment is being made to both Fusion
and Clarity -- The Global Style Liquidity Agreement requires that
a Liquidity Lender whose rating drops below Prime-1 must cash collateralize
its commitment within 30 days of the downgrade. NBC has now removed
this requirement. Instead, within 30 days of a downgrade,
one of the following will be satisfied:
(i) Downgraded lender will enter into an assignment to transfer all obligations
under the Liquidity Agreement to a Prime-1-rated lender;
(ii) Downgraded lender will obtain an unconditional guarantee from a Prime-1-rated
guarantor for all of its obligations under the Liquidity Agreement;
or
(iii) Take any other action that satisfies the rating agency condition
Fusion has $1.4 billion of purchase commitments and its
series-wide credit enhancement was C$15 million.
Clarity has $1.1 billion of purchase commitments and its
series-wide credit enhancement was C$15 million.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Approach
to Rating Asset-Backed Commercial Paper" published in May 2012.
Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com for
a copy of this methodology.
Moody's monitors and analyzes ABCP programs on an ongoing basis.
A detailed description of each program is published in the ABCP Program
Review. Some ABCP programs have monthly updated performance information,
which is published in the Performance Overviews. All publications
are available on www.moodys.com.
Wanda Lee
Asst Vice President - Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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Moody's ABCP rating actions ending May 20, 2013