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The transaction's note size is to be determined, but is backed by €750M in lease-backed receivables, compared to €1.5 billion in VW's most recent German lease ABS in May.
Over three-quarters of loans in the €861.3 million transaction are loans in which borrowers are scheduled to repay almost half the principal in its final installment.
Moody's thinks that the risk of early lease terminations is "marginal," since only 0.5% of the vehicles in the collateral pool are old enough to be impacted by bans in place in several European cities.
Collateral for the deal, which is structured as a master trust, can reach €30B of loans originated by the bank's building-savings affiliate, its retail operations and its private-bank unit.
The Spanish bank's German retail lending unit is securitizing a fifth pool of mostly unsecured personal loans from an €83.5 billion portfolio.
Over 80% of the cars are diesel-engine vehicles, bringing potential volatility to the portfolio cash flows given the public debate over potential panning such cars in several European urban centers.
The €684.8 million transaction is backed primarily by new-car leases to German prime borrowers. It's the 21st German securitization by FCE Bank, Ford's UK-based captive finance arm.
The diverse mix of collateral ranges from vehicles and medical equipment to high-end fitness machines and tanning beds that Abcfinance provides for German SMEs and entrepreneurs.
A German judge's support behind efforts to ban diesel-engine vehicles in Stuttgart could set in motion a decline in performance for German and European auto loan securitions, says Moody's.
