London, 19 September 2014 -- Moody's Investors Service has today upgraded the ratings of eight notes
in four Spanish asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions:
BBVA Consumo 1, FTA, BBVA Consumo 2, FTA, BBVA
Consumo 3, FTA & BBVA Consumo 4, FTA.
Today's rating action concludes the review of eight notes placed on review
on 17 March 2014, following the upgrade of the Spanish sovereign
rating to Baa2 from Baa3 and the resulting increase of the local-currency
country ceiling to A1 from A3 (http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PR_292078).
The sovereign rating upgrade reflected improvements in institutional strength
and reduced susceptibility to event risk associated with lower government
liquidity and banking sector risks.
BBVA Consumo 1, FTA, BBVA Consumo 2, FTA, BBVA
Consumo 3, FTA & BBVA Consumo 4, FTA are consumer loan
transactions originated by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.("BBVA
S.A.") (Baa2 / P-2) in 2006, 2006, 2008
and 2009 respectively to individual obligors located in Spain.
Please refer to the end of the Ratings Rationale section for a list of
affected ratings.
RATINGS RATIONALE
Today's upgrade reflects (1) the increase in the Spanish local-currency
country ceiling to A1 and (2) sufficiency of credit enhancement in the
affected transactions which increased significantly over the last 18 months
for the revised rating levels. In BBVA Consumo 1, FTA,
the reserve fund now represents 41.2% of the rated notes,
compared to 16.5% 18 months ago. In BBVA Consumo
2, FTA, the reserve fund represents 33.5% of
the rated notes compared to 11.9% 18 months ago.
In BBVA Consumo 3, FTA the reserve fund represents 28.4%
of the rated notes compared to 8.3% 18 months ago.
In BBVA Consumo 4, FTA, the notes are fully cash collateralised
by the reserve fund which represents 111% of the rated notes compared
to 49.5% 18 months ago.
-- Reduced Sovereign Risk
The Spanish sovereign rating was upgraded to Baa2 in February 2014,
which resulted in an increase in the local-currency country ceiling
to A1. The Spanish country ceiling, and therefore the maximum
rating that Moody's will assign to a domestic Spanish issuer including
structured finance transactions backed by Spanish receivables, is
A1 (sf).
The increase of credit enhancement combined with stable performance and
the reduction in sovereign risk has prompted the upgrade of the notes.
-- Key collateral assumptions
Moody's has revised its volatility assumption in those transactions given
the reduced country risk. Default probabilities (DP) and recovery
rates have been kept constant given the stable performance of the transactions
and the stable outlook for Spanish ABS (http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PBS_SF373727).
In BBVA Consumo 1, FTA, the DP on current balance of 6%
(corresponding to a DP on original balance of 3.8%) together
with a recovery rate of 20.0% and a volatility of 55.7%
corresponds to an unchanged portfolio credit enhancement of 22.5%.
In BBVA Consumo 2, FTA, the DP on current balance of 8.5%
(corresponding to a DP on original balance of 4.95%) together
with a recovery rate of 20.0% and a volatility of 41.5%
corresponds to an unchanged portfolio credit enhancement of 22.5%.
In BBVA Consumo 3, FTA, the DP on current balance of 12%
(corresponding to a DP on original balance of 8.1%) together
with a recovery rate of 20.0% and a volatility of 33.8%
corresponds to an unchanged portfolio credit enhancement of 25.5%.
In BBVA Consumo 4, FTA, the DP on current balance of 13%
(corresponding to a DP on original balance of 5.73%) together
with a recovery rate of 30.0% and a volatility of 35.8%
corresponds to an unchanged portfolio credit enhancement of 25.5%.
-- Exposure to Counterparties
Moody's rating analysis also took into consideration the exposure to key
transaction counterparties. In these four transactions, BBVA
S.A., Société Générale
(A2/P-1) and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (A3/(P)P-2)
perform various roles including the roles of servicer, account bank
and swap provider.
Today's rating action takes into account the linkage to BBVA S.A.
which is the servicer in all four transactions and holds the reserve funds
in BBVA Consumo 3, FTA and BBVA Consumo 4, FTA.
Moody's also assessed the exposure to Deutsche Bank AG, London
Branch acting as swap counterparty in BBVA Consumo 1, FTA and BBVA
Consumo 2, FTA and to BBVA S.A. as swap counterparty
in BBVA Consumo 3, FTA and BBVA Consumo 4, FTA when revising
the ratings.
PRINCIPAL METHODOLOGY
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Approach
to Rating Consumer Loan-Backed ABS" published in September
2014. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of this methodology.
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
Factors or circumstances that could lead to an upgrade of the ratings
include (1) further reduction in sovereign risk, (2) performance
of the underlying collateral that is better than Moody's expected,
(3) deleveraging of the capital structure and (4) improvements in the
credit quality of the transaction counterparties.
Factors or circumstances that could lead to a downgrade of the ratings
include (1) an increase in sovereign risk, (2) performance of the
underlying collateral that is worse than Moody's expects, (3) deterioration
in the notes' available credit enhancement and (4) deterioration in the
credit quality of the transaction counterparties.
LIST OF AFFECTED RATINGS:
Issuer: BBVA Consumo 1, FTA
....EUR28.5M B Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 A3 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
....EUR24M C Notes, Upgraded to A1 (sf);
previously on Mar 17, 2014 Baa3 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible
Upgrade
Issuer: BBVA Consumo 2, FTA
....EUR16.5M B Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 Baa1 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
....EUR42.8M C Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 Ba1 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
Issuer: BBVA Consumo 3, FTA
....EUR916.5M A Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 A3 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
....EUR58.5M B Notes, Upgraded
to Baa3 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 Caa2 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
Issuer: BBVA Consumo 4, FTA
....EUR937.7M A Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 A3 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
....EUR162.3M B Notes, Upgraded
to A1 (sf); previously on Mar 17, 2014 Baa2 (sf) Placed Under
Review for Possible Upgrade
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and
sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and
Sensitivity to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
Moody's did not receive or take into account a third-party
assessment on the due diligence performed regarding the underlying assets
or financial instruments related to the monitoring of these transactions
in the past six months.
In rating this transaction, Moody's used a cash flow model
to model cash flow stress scenarios to determine the extent to which investors
would receive timely payments of interest and principal in the stress
scenarios, given the transaction structure and collateral composition.
As the section on loss and cash flow analysis describes, Moody's
quantitative analysis entails an evaluation of scenarios that stress factors
contributing to sensitivity of ratings and take into account the likelihood
of severe collateral losses or impaired cash flows. Moody's
weights the impact on the rated instruments based on its assumptions of
the likelihood of the events in such scenarios occurring.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series
or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings
are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's
rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular
rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the
support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive
rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt,
in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed
prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would
have affected the rating. For further information please see the
ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this rating action, and
whose ratings may change as a result of this rating action, the
associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit
rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating
review.
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the rating.
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for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
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Moody's upgrades eight notes in four BBVA Consumo Spanish ABS Transactions