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Hong Kong, September 30, 2022 — Moody’s Investors Service has assigned provisional (P)Aaa (sf) ratings to two classes of senior notes to be issued by Fuyuan 2022-3 Retail Auto Mortgage Loan Securitization Trust, a domestic transaction backed by a pool of auto loans originated by Ford Automotive Finance (China) Limited (FAFC) in China.
The complete rating action is as follows:
Issuer: Fuyuan 2022-3 Retail Auto Mortgage Loan Securitization Trust
….RMB[1,000,000,000] Class A-1 Notes, Assigned (P)Aaa (sf)
….RMB[1,700,000,000] Class A-2 Notes, Assigned (P)Aaa (sf)
The RMB[152,000,000] Subordinated Notes are not rated by Moody’s.
RATINGS RATIONALE
The rated notes will be supported by the subordination provided by the subordinated notes, the over-collateralization of the portfolio, the fully funded liquidity reserve at closing, and any excess spread (if any).
When assigning the ratings, Moody’s analysis focused, among other factors, on (1) the characteristics of the securitized pool; (2) the macroeconomic environment; (3) the historical performance data (4) the parental support available to the servicer; (5) the potential for disruption of the issuer’s cash flow in case of a servicer termination event; (6) the protection provided by the credit enhancement against defaults in the securitized pool; and (7) legal and structural integrity of the transaction.
Moody’s considered, among other things, the transaction’s following key strengths:
(1) Diversified collateral pool composition: The portfolio is highly granular, consisting of 30,473 performing loans selected from the originator’s portfolio, and spread across 31 regions in China.
(2) Favorable pool characteristics: The pool only includes loans to purchase new vehicles, with fully amortizing terms, and payment made by direct debit from the borrowers’ bank accounts. There are no loans with more than 30 consecutive days in arrears at cutoff. The minimum down payment rate of the loans is 20%, except for the loans backed by new energy vehicles which may have a minimum down payment of 15% (loans backed by new energy vehicles contribute to 7.76% of the securitized pool amount, and loans with minimum down payment below 20% contribute to about 3% of the securitized pool amount). The portfolio has a weighted average down payment rate of about 43.4% at loan origination.
(3) Static structure: This is a static deal with no revolving period. As a result, the transaction is only exposed to the default risk of the loans in the cutoff pool, which have a weighted average remaining tenor of about 27.19 months. Furthermore, the issuer will apply loan repayments to repay the rated notes from the first monthly payment date until they are repaid in full.
(4) Strong credit enhancement: The transaction benefits from several sources of credit enhancement, including the subordination available to the rated notes, a liquidity reserve that will be fully funded at closing, which will not amortize during the life of the transaction; and increasing over-collateralization over time because of the full turbo payment structure.
(5) Experienced originator: The originator, FAFC, has sponsored 15 auto ABS transactions and has around 17 years of experience in operating in China.
Moody’s has also considered the following weaknesses and mitigants:
(1) Untested backup servicing arrangement: There will be no backup servicing arrangement at closing, and there is no history of such servicing transfer in China. Servicing of the transaction may be subject to disruption if the originator/servicer fails to perform when needed.
(2) Limited liquidity buffer: The trust has a non-amortizing cash liquidity reserve account, which will be fully funded at closing to an amount equal to 1.0% of the initial portfolio principal amount. This amount of liquidity coverage can cover around 4 months of senior fees and rated notes’ interest, calculated according to the closing note balance amount.
(3) Commingling risk with servicer’s fund: The servicer will auto-debit the borrowers’ bank accounts on each of the loan’s monthly installment dates and deposit such collections with its own funds. This amount will be subject to commingling risk until the servicer transfers such collections to the issuer’s trust account seven business days before each payment date.
MAIN MODEL ASSUMPTIONS
Moody’s assumed a mean default rate of 0.8% and a portfolio credit enhancement of 5.5% for the securitized pool. A recovery rate of 10% is used as the other main input for Moody’s cash flow model ABSROM. These assumptions are made according to Moody’s analysis of the characteristics of such pools, their historical performance, and the current view of China’s social and macroeconomic conditions.
RATINGS METHODOLOGY
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody’s Global Approach to Rating Auto Loan- and Lease-Backed ABS" published in July 2022 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/390478. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
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Request for Comments can be found on the rating methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com.
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
Factors that may cause a downgrade of the ratings include: (1) a decline in the overall performance of the pool; (2) a deterioration in the credit profile of the servicer or its parent companies and the absence of the implementation of any mitigating actions for the transaction, and (3) a deterioration in the credit quality of the transaction counterparties.
The performance expectations for a given variable indicate Moody’s forward-looking view of the likely range of performance over the medium term. Performance that falls outside the given range may indicate that the collateral’s credit quality is stronger or weaker than what Moody’s had previously anticipated.
The Company
FAFC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Credit Company LLC (Ba2) and is a licensed auto finance company under the supervision of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC).
FAFC was incorporated in Shanghai in June 2005. It provides auto loans to buyers of cars — which include all Ford automotive brands — sold through Ford dealers in various provinces of China.
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