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Trends in subprime auto lending and related ABS have evoked comparisons to the subprime mortgage market. Where many see a potential crisis, others point to significant differences to pre-financial crisis RMBS. To shed light on the issue, the Credit Chronometer has identified historical indicators of performance – within lending practices, securitization practices and the underlying market for the assets backing the pooled loans – and analyzes the market using a disciplined comparative approach.
The Subprime Auto Loan Chronometer provides a quick view of risk in the market based on the indicators of crisis and their prevalence in subprime auto lending and ABS today.
Listen to a recent ValueWalk’s Value Talk Podcast to hear Joseph Cioffi discuss the direction the subprime auto market is headed, the current regulatory landscape and the results of Credit Chronometer’s recent auto market study.
Davis+Gilbert’s Insolvency + Finance Practice Group represents clients in a broad range of corporate, insolvency and litigation matters. The group has been actively involved in many of the most notable and highly visible business events in recent years related to the last economic downturn and has vast experience in the area of subprime lending, including the operation of origination platforms, relationships with servicers and defending large-scale asset-backed securities litigation. The broad and diverse experience of their attorneys makes them particularly well-equipped to advise clients in rapidly evolving markets, such as, those for auto loans, student loans, marketplace lending, mortgage loans and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Additional highlights of the practice include the following:
Litigation: The group regularly prosecutes and defends litigation involving complex financial transactions and instruments and has defended asset-backed securities litigation, including for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), encompassing fraud and repurchase claims, involving nearly $2 billion in claims.
Bankruptcy: The group guides clients through financially distressed situations and helps formulate and execute creditor enforcement strategies, in particular, in the case of intermediaries facing obligations to third parties. The group has defended nearly $1 billion in fraudulent transfer claims brought by the trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
Corporate: The group also advises on a full range of financing transactions, including secured revolving and term credit facilities, receivable financing arrangements, intercreditor agreements, warehouse lending facilities and loan purchase agreements.
For more information about the Insolvency + Finance Practice Group, click here.
Credit Chronometer’s second annual market study, available here, has been giving industry participants a behind-the-scenes look at how originators, investors, servicers and trustees are viewing the effects of the pandemic on the subprime auto securitization market.
Our recent webinar revealing the results of the study was attended by industry leaders from all areas of the market, including some of the largest originators and securitization participants. A key benefit for those who attended was the remarks by special guests from DBRS and Westlake Financial, who analyzed the results, including the fear of potential long-term impact from COVID-19, based on their own experience.
I spoke with Nick Zulovich of Auto Remarketing to share several of the most important insights from the report and the discussion with our special guests. Listen here