JPY 13.3 billion in Class C Beneficial Interest affected
Tokyo, August 27, 2010 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a definitive rating to Class C
Beneficial Interest of JPY 13.3 billion, based on the amendments
of the transaction entered into on August 25, 2010, backed
by consumer loan receivables.
The rating addresses the expected loss posed to investors by the final
maturity date. The structure allows for timely payments of dividends
(in scheduled amounts, on scheduled payment dates), and ultimate
payment of principal by the final maturity date.
The rating and a summary of the transaction follow.
Deal Name: Sunshine Trust
Class: Class C Beneficial Interest
Rating: Ba3 (sf)
Amount: JPY 13.3 billion
Dividend: Fixed
Payment Frequency: Quarterly
Amortization: Pass-through
Initial Entrustment Date: September 24, 2008
Transfer Date of Class C Beneficial Interest: August 27, 2010
Final Maturity Date: July 31, 2018
Underlying Asset: Consumer loan receivables
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW
The seller, being both originator and initial servicer, entrusted
a pool of consumer loan receivables to the asset trustee, and received
the Class A Beneficial Interest, Class B Beneficial Interest,
Class C Beneficial Interest, Seller's Beneficial Interest and Subordinated
Beneficial Interest. Entrustment of the receivables was perfected
against third parties under the Perfection Law (the Law Prescribing Exceptions,
Etc. to the Civil Code Requirement for Setting Up Against a Third
Party to an Assignment of Claims and Chattels [Law No.104,
1998]). Perfection against obligors will not be made until certain
events occur.
The seller holds the Seller's Beneficial Interest and the Subordinated
Beneficial Interest and has transferred the Class A, the Class B,
and the Class C Beneficial Interests ("Senior-Mezzanine Beneficial
Interests") to the investors. The transfer was perfected
against the relevant obligors and third parties under Article 94 of Japan's
Trust Law.
Credit enhancement is provided by the senior/subordinated structure and
available excess spread. Subordination comprises approximately
28% of the total outstanding amount of the receivables.
The Senior-Mezzanine Beneficial Interests will be redeemed in a
sequential, monthly, pass-through basis.
Default receivables will be used as payment in kind for dividends on the
Subordinated Beneficial Interest, while cash in an amount equivalent
to the principal balances of the defaulted receivables will be transferred
from the interest collection account to the principal collection account
(defaulted trapping mechanism).
If an early amortization event occurs, the dividend waterfall to
the Subordinated Beneficial Interest will be suspended, and excess
spread will be used to redeem the Senior-Mezzanine Beneficial Interests.
Key early amortization events include a servicer replacement event occurring
and asset performance triggers being reached.
In preparation for servicer replacement, liquidity was provided
in the form of a cash reserve at closing. If a servicer replacement
event occurs, the asset trustee can dismiss the servicer and have
the back-up servicer take over as servicer. A back-up
servicer has been appointed.
Commingling Risk is covered by the Seller's Beneficial Interest.
RATING OPINION SUMMARY
After examining this transaction structures, etc, Moody's
assumes that the risk of interruption to cash flow from the assets in
the event of the seller's or the asset trustee's bankruptcy
is sufficiently minimized for the purposes of achieving the rating assigned.
Moody's estimates the expected annual default rate of the Japanese
consumer loans at approximately 15% - 23%.
Moody's determined the transaction's rating after taking into
account the receivable attributes, historical data on receivables'
entire pool, performance data for existing securitization pools,
industry trends, the transaction structure, and other elements.
Moody's examined the seller and considers the company sufficiently
capable of servicing the pool, given its substantial experience
in the consumer loan industry.
V Score
The V Score for this transaction is Medium, the same score assigned
to the Japanese consumer loan ABS sector.
Moody's has assigned ratings to securitizations of consumer loan receivables
originated by the seller since 2008. This transaction's structure
is a common one and the transaction's complexity is similar to that of
a typical consumer loan ABS.
Moody's V Scores provide a relative assessment of the quality of available
credit information and the potential variability of various inputs in
a rating determination.
The V Score ranks transactions by the potential for significant rating
changes owing to uncertainty on the assumptions due to data quality,
historical performance, the level of disclosure, transaction
complexity, modelling, and the transaction governance that
underlie the ratings, etc. V Scores apply to the entire transaction
(rather than to individual tranches).
Parameter Sensitivities
If the default rate used in determining the initial rating were changed
to 24% or 25%, the model output for the Class C Beneficial
Interest in these two scenarios would be two notches down for 24%
default rate, and three notches down for 25% default rate.
Parameter Sensitivities are not intended to measure how the rating of
the security might migrate over time; rather they are designed to
provide a quantitative calculation of how the initial rating might change
if key input parameters used in the initial rating process differed.
The analysis assumes that the deal has not aged, and does not take
into account structural features such as sequential payment effect.
Parameter Sensitivities reflect only the ratings impact of each scenario
from a quantitative/model-indicated standpoint. Qualitative
factors are also taken into consideration in the ratings process,
so the actual ratings that would be assigned in each case could vary from
the information presented in the Parameter Sensitivity analysis.
Reference to Relevant Methodology
The principal methodology used in rating the transaction was "Moody's
Approach to Rating Consumer Finance Loan ABS in Japan" published
in November 2005, which can be found at www.moodys.com
in the Research and Ratings directory, in the Ratings Methodologies
subdirectory. Other methodologies and factors that may have been
considered in the process of rating this issue can also be found in the
Rating Methodologies subdirectory. Further information on Moody's
analysis of this transaction is also available on www.moodys.com.
In addition, Moody's publishes a weekly summary of structured finance
credit, ratings and methodologies, available to all registered
users of our website, at www.moodys.com/SFQuickCheck.
The methodologies, "Updated Report on V Scores and Parameter
Sensitivities for Structured Finance Securities" published in December
2008 and "V Scores and Parameter Sensitivities in the Global Consumer
Loan ABS Sector" published in May 2009, are available on moodys.com.
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Tokyo
Atsushi Karikomi
Vice President - Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Japan K.K.
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Tokyo
Yusuke Seki
Senior Vice President - Team Leader
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Japan K.K.
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Moody's rates Class C Beneficial Interest of Sunshine Trust, consumer loan ABS