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The move was fueled by BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda talking up the prospects for a rate hike, leading money markets to lift the chance of a move on Dec. 19 to around 80%, from less than 25% one week ago.
The Japanese lender will back $526 million in U.S. dollar-denominated notes with receivables of domestic new- and used-car loans from domestic borrowers.
In the last two quarters of 2019, according to Fitch Ratings, more U.S. managers of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) had been structuring some of their transactions to comply with risk-retention rules.
The Japan Financial Services Agency is considering increasing capital requirements for holdings of securitizations if the sponsors do not have "skin in game."
The $418m OSCAR US 2017-2 transaction is the 7th securitization of prime auto loans originated by Orient Corp. (or Orico) in Japan and packaged into U.S.-dollar denominated securities.
