mining loan level data
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Deutsche Bank Markets Research
Europe
Special Report
Credit Securitisation
Date 4 September 2013
Spanish RMBS: Mining loan level data
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Deutsche Bank AG/London
DISCLOSURES AND ANALYST CERTIFICATIONS ARE LOCATED IN APPENDIX 1. MICA(P) 054/04/2013.
Rachit Prasad
Research Analyst
(+44) 20 754-70328
Conor O'Toole
Research Analyst
(+44) 20 754-59652
Following on from our initial examination of European loan level data from the European DataWarehouse (ED) in our report titled “Irish RMBS: A first look at loan level data”, we move on to analyse another peripheral RMBS market – Spain. We first take the opportunity to review data completeness. With 97 deals amounting to 85% by volume of Spanish RMBS investor placed deals signed up to the European DataWarehouse, coverage is good, albeit there are issues with some mandatory fields being collected but not yet displayed. While a majority of lenders collect a significant (90%+) amount of the 69 mandatory fields defined by the ECB RMBS taxonomy, the incidences of mandatory fields which have been collected by the lender but nevertheless are for now not presented in loan level data is high. Next we take a closer look at broad loan trends across Spanish investor placed deals. The recent observable deterioration in credit metrics leads us to examine what loan level characteristics - to include geography, LTV (current), employment status, loan-to-income ratios, and property occupancy type - are correlated to underperformance. We discuss each of these characteristics in turn (LTV and geography unsurprisingly turn out to be key drivers) and present these at a deal level for our sample universe. Finally, overlaying loan level analysis onto bond attachment points and pricing, we identify relative value opportunities amongst 30 senior Spanish RMBS bonds. We calculate the liquidation loss of loans where the debt service to indexed income ratio is greater than 30%. We use this metric as an indicator of potential future losses in deals since a dynamic data series of loan level characteristics is not yet available, while it captures LTV, geography, and borrower leverage. Comparing the credit enhancement of bonds to this liquidation loss metric leads us to recommend the following key bond switches which emphasize better bond safety while picking up spread Switch from BFTH 13 A2 to BCJAF 6 A2 to pickup 15 bps in spread
Switch from SABA 1 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A to pickup 15 bps in spread
Switch from BCJAM 4 A2 to RHIPO 8 A2A to pickup 10 bps in spread
Risks: Worse than expected credit performance in deals from a higher unemployment rate or a persistent deep property downcycle are risks to our recommendations. Spreads and yields are contingent on realised prepayment and default rates. Bond specific illiquidity and technical factors as well as deal specific risks such as those associated with sponsors and counterparties are additional risks to bear in mind.
Table Of Contents
Introduction…………..………..……….......2
Spanish loan level data Completeness....2
Broad trends from Spanish loan
level data…………………………….………4
What does this mean at a deal level?....12
Spanish Senior RMBS Relative Value…14
Summary and recommendations……...16
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Introduction
Following on from our initial examination of European loan level data from the European DataWarehouse (ED) in our report entitled “Irish RMBS: A first look at loan level data”, we move on to analyse another peripheral RMBS market – Spain.
We first take the opportunity to review data completeness. With 97 deals amounting to 85% by issuance of Spanish RMBS investor placed deals signed up to the European DataWarehouse, coverage is good, albeit there are issues with some mandatory fields being collected but not yet displayed. While a majority of lenders collect a significant (90%+) amount of the 69 mandatory fields defined by the ECB RMBS taxonomy, the incidences of mandatory fields which have been collected by the lender but nevertheless are for now not presented in loan level data currently is high.
Next we take a closer look at broad loan trends across Spanish investor placed deals. The recent observable deterioration in credit metrics leads us to examine what loan level characteristics - to include geography, LTV (current), employment status, loan-to-income ratios, and property occupancy type - are correlated to underperformance. We discuss each of these characteristics in turn (LTV and geography unsurprisingly turn out to be key drivers) and present these at a deal level for our sample universe.
Finally, overlaying loan level analysis onto bond attachment points and pricing, we identify relative value opportunities amongst 30 senior Spanish RMBS bonds. We calculate the liquidation loss of loans where the debt service to indexed income ratio is greater than 30%. We use this metric as an indicator of potential future losses in deals since a dynamic data series of loan level characteristics is not yet available, while it captures LTV, geography, and borrower leverage.
Comparing the credit enhancement of bonds to this liquidation loss metric leads us to recommend the following key bond switches which emphasize better bond safety while picking up spread -
Switch from BFTH 13 A2 to BCJAF 6 A2 to pickup 15 bps in spread
Switch from SABA 1 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A to pickup 15 bps in spread
Switch from BCJAM 4 A2 to RHIPO 8 A2A to pickup 10 bps in spread
Risks: Worse than expected credit performance in deals from higher unemployment or a persistent deep property downcycle are risks to our relative value recommendations. Spreads and yields are contingent on prepayment and default rates. Bond specific illiquidity and technical factors as well as deal specific risks such as those associated with sponsors and counterparties are additional risks to bear in mind.
Spanish loan level data completeness
At present some 97 of the 132 investor placed Spanish RMBS deals are available on European DataWarehouse equating to EUR 49.5 billion or 85% of all investor placed Spanish RMBS outstanding (Figure 1) (Please see Appendix A for a breakdown of the programmes in the European DataWarehouse). In common with other European RMBS sectors where loan level data is available highest priority gripes include different dates between loan level data and investor reports, along with key fields not being populated. To recap the RMBS taxonomy/template consists of 191 fields, 69 of which are mandatory.
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Figure 1: European DataWarehouse – Sector snapshot
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Dutch RMBS 74/97 66.2 86% 77
Greek RMBS 0/10 0.0 0% 3
Irish RMBS 6/9 7.0 75% 9
Italian RMBS 32/56 13.6 81% 17
Portuguese RMBS 18/23 8.5 82% 10
Spanish RMBS 97/132 49.5 85% 59
UK prime RMBS* 9/29 42.6 42% 102
Spanish SME CLOS 33/47 5.6 78% 7
Total 269/403 193.0 68% 284 Source: Deutsche Bank,* UK Prime RMBS is in EUR billion
While on the face of it data completeness of these 97 deals appears quite good or at least has the potential to be, when one digs deeper some key fields that are necessary for analysis are still missing at present. A recap on ECB data population guidelines follows.
Where originators cannot provide data in accordance with the template, predefined “no-data” (ND) options are available which clarifies the reason for non-availability of data. These ND options are detailed in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Data Scoring based on ECB guideline
“No Data” option Explanation
ND 1 Data not collected as not required by the underwriting criteria
ND 2 Data collected at application but not loaded in the reporting system at completion
ND 3 Data collected at application but loaded in a separate system from the reporting one
ND 4 Data collected but will only be available from YYYY-MM
ND 5 Not relevant at the present time
ND 6 Not applicable for the jurisdiction
ND 7 Only for CMBS loans with a value less than EUR 500 000, i.e. the value of the whole commercial loan balance at origination
Source: ECB
The ECB next lays out a scoring matrix1 which measures the prevalence of ND (no-data) entries for mandatory fields. This scoring matrix along with the Spanish RMBS specific results are displayed in Figure 3. As the table highlights, the prevalence of ND 1 entries (which measures the incidences of mandatory fields not required by the lenders underwriting criteria) are coded by letter (A to D) while the aggregate prevalence of ND 2, ND 3, ND 4 (which measures the incidences of where mandatory fields are collected by lenders but not yet loaded into the ECB template) are coded by number (1 to 4), which collectively form the matrix.2 Almost all lenders collect a significant (90%+) amount of the 69 mandatory fields defined by the ECB RMBS taxonomy. Indeed some 77% of deals are classified as “A” meaning they collect 100% of
1 http://www.ecb.int/paym/coll/loanlevel/implementation/html/index.en.html
2 More specifically ND 1 - Data not collected as not required by the lenders underwriting criteria, ND 2 and
ND 3 Data collected at application but either not loaded at completion or loaded in a separate system from
the reporting one, and ND 4 - data collected but will only be available from a specified date in the future.
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required mandatory fields while a further 22% are classified as “B” meaning less than 10% of required mandatory fields are not collected.
Figure 3: Loan level completeness Scoring Matrix – Mandatory fields
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≤ 20% A2 (45) B2(15) C2 D2
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> 40% A4 B4 C4 D4 Source: ECB, ED, numbers in brackets represent number of Spanish RMBS deals in category. The above includes 88 investor placed deals and 9 retained deals.
However the incidences of mandatory fields which have been collected by the lender but nevertheless are for now not presented in loan level data - categories A2 and A3 – at 53 deals, is high. What this means is when one looks at “Key Fields”, at present many of these are simply not disclosed. We define key fields as those which we believe are best designed to conduct loan level analysis. The 12 key fields designated include LTV, income, property valuation, origination date, arrears, mortgage rate, loan term, original and current loan balance, employment status, property occupancy, and geography. (Please see Appendix C for an extract of an example loan tape). For example, a cursory examination of data completeness shows that in many deals, data as simple as arrears balance and original income levels (used to arrive at debt to income ratios) are currently collected by the underwriter but not reflected at present in loan level data.
Amongst Spanish RMBS shelves, Bankinter’s BFTH and Santander’s HMSF programmes display the best source of data – they score A1 in the ECB mandatory field matrix, while Banco Mare Nostrum’s AYTCH, and the multi-originator AYTH M2, Banco Popular’s IMPAS 4, Banco Sabadell’s TDAC deals and UCI’s (currently part of BNP Santander/Banco Santander) UCI 9 are amongst the worst which score B2 or C1.
Additionally, we find that arrears data reported in loan tapes do not necessarily match with those reported in investor reports. We looked for a combination of loan fields which included “account status”,”number of months in arrears”, “arrears balance” to identify loans in arrears, but find that arrears from loan tape can be materially different from investor reports. On average we find that 90d+ arrears (including default) is 3.8% using loan level data while it is 5.7% from investor reports. Possible reasons for the difference include different sample sets (97 deals in loan data set versus 134 overall), timing differences (loan tapes are dated a few months prior to recent investor reports), potential difficulties in identifying loans in arrears or slippages in loan level data in recording loans in arrears.
Broad trends from Spanish loan level data
In the context of ever increasing delinquencies in the Spanish RMBS sector where sector average credit risky loans3 have increased by 1.45 ppts y-o-y (Figure 4) with some deals jumping by more than 3 ppts since January alone (Figure 5), the recent availability of loan level data is timely. Indeed loan level data from the ED Warehouse should facilitate a more rigorous analysis of the drivers of mortgage credit underperformance.
3 Credit risky loans are defined as 90d+ arrears plus defaults-in-hand.
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Figure 4: Credit risky loans rising Figure 5: Top increases in credit risky loans in Spanish
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We examine 5 key loan level characteristics to include geography, LTV (current), employment status, loan-to-income ratios, and property occupancy type. In our study, we focus in turn on individual factors as a determinant of mortgage credit performance. Indeed, in reality a combination of a large number of factors will matter for a borrower default. Our effort here is to only provide a flavour for where and how credit performance may be affected. To get an idea of how the key fields in a loan tape would actually look, please see Appendix C for an extract from the BFTH 4 loan tape.
We summarise the data set and discuss each of these characteristics in turn below.
Data set and Arrears: The dataset we use includes only investor placed RMBS deals which comprises 97 deals amounting to EUR 51.3 billion of mortgages equating to c. 85% of outstanding Spanish mortgages in investor placed RMBS transactions. Therefore the data provides us with a large and meaningful sample of loans from which to draw conclusions.
At the outset, we highlight that the latest loan tapes are dated December 2012 – April 2013 depending on deal, therefore they reflect the state of the RMBS pools c.3-6 months ago. They will not relate to latest investor reports released by trustees on a monthly basis. Timely and more frequent reporting of loan level data remains an area for improvement.
We find our sample loan universe has some EUR 3.8 billion (7.5%) (See Footnote[5]) of loans in arrears (including those classified as being in default in RMBS pools) of which c EUR 1.9 billion (or 3.8% of total) are in arrears (again including those classified as being in default) for more than 3 months. Indeed, 3m+ arrears balance of 3.8%4 ties in broadly with what Bank of Spain reports
4 We identify loans as being in arrears if
-If account status is available, then loan is non-performing if Account status is 2 (Arrears) or 3 (Default or
Foreclosure)
-If account status is not available, if arrears balance > 0, or if Number of months in Arrears > 0
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as doubtful mortgage loans 4.16 %.5 Figure 6 provides a snapshot of the arrears buckets as a percentage of the total pool.
Figure 6: Snapshot of Spanish RMBS loan level data
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Arrears by geography/region Mortgage credit performance by region has always been of interest to RMBS investors, but was difficult to analyse due to the paucity of data before loan level data became available.
Using geographical information available for 72 deals, we classify the regional codes in loan tapes into broad geographic classification used by the Ministry of Housing (MDV) for its regional house price indices. We then compute the relative levels of distress in Spain by region which we present in a map format in Figure 7. The map is colour coded to differentiate varying level of arrears as a percentage of the regional pool. The grey areas represent the regions that are relatively more distressed, followed by the darker blue colours. The least affected regions are represented as lighter shades of blue.
We find that arrears percentages as a percentage of regional pool are highest in Murcia (18.3% total arrears as a ratio of regional pool), and Catalunya (11.2% total arrears as a ratio of regional pool). Comunidad Valenciana (10.8%), Balears (10.3%) and Andalucia (9.2%) follow closely with total arrears close to 10% in these regions (Figure 7).
While Murcia has the largest share of regional arrears at 18.3%, only 3.3% of the mortgage pool is from the region, and about 8.4% of Spanish arrears is attributable to Murcia. Indeed, Catalunya and Valenciana contribute to 23.4% and 22.5% of national arrears and remain more significant from a RMBS credit perspective, since a higher proportion of the pool (c. 30% of the universe) is from these two regions.
Note that total arrears here refer to all loans which are overdue in payment and includes those loans classified as being in default (12m+ or 18m+ arrears depending on deal, or classified as default by the sponsor).
5 This 3.8% 90d+ arrears (including defaults) figure is lower than 5.7% shown in Figure 4 sourced from
investor reports. Possible reasons for differences include different sample universes, timing differences,
potential difficulties in identifying loans in arrears or slippages in loan level data in recording loans in
arrears.
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Figure 7: Total arrears (including defaults) by region using loan level data
Source: Loan level data from European DataWarehouse. Note that about 18% of mortgages do not have geography information, and another 5.9% are classified as “Extra Regional”- loans to regions outside Spain- Not to scale
Arrears by LTV Loan level data also allows us to examine arrears performance by vintage, and confirms what the market has long known (Figure 8) - that mortgages from 2005 onwards have had a higher propensity to default (8-10% of loans from these years are in arrears) than loans from earlier years. With average seasoning in RMBS deals being c.21 months at the time of issue, mortgages originated in 2005 appeared in deals from late 2006 and 2007 deals where we see, broadly speaking, inferior credit performance.
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Figure 8: Arrears percentage by year of mortgage
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The high proportion of arrears in mortgages from 2005-2008 (Figure 8) coincided with a buoyant Spanish property market. Since current property prices are substantially lower than during those years, we can hypothesize that lower borrower equity (compared to mortgages from earlier years) may be driving default rates. In order to confirm this, we adjust property prices at a loan level recorded at the time of origination to current levels using regional house price indices from the Spanish Ministry of Housing (MDV)6. We then arrive at indexed LTV as the ratio of current outstanding loan amount to the indexed property value.
We then classify arrears by indexed LTV bucket (Figure 9). About 14% of the universe of Spanish loans (including arrears and defaulted loans) is in negative equity, with c 17.4% of arrears in negative equity. Arrears likelihood (i.e. arrears as a percent of pool balance in the bucket) increases from c.5% to c.10% as indexed LTV increases from 30% to 90%. We find that some 9.3% of the negative equity loans (to be sure where indexed LTV > 100%) are in arrears indicating broadly that higher LTV loans are indeed seeing higher default rates.
But does the negative equity ratio help address the difference in regional arrears? Indeed negative equity is correlated with regional arrears, as Figure 10 shows. Excluding Murcia, Madrid and Castilla La Mancha which are outliers, some 31% of the variance in regional arrears is explained by negative equity.
However, this simultaneously raises an associated question- some 70% of the regional variance remains unexplained by negative equity. In regions such as Murcia, Catalunya, Balears and Valenciana where we see large arrears as a ratio of the regional pool, only a small percentage of arrears are from the negative equity bucket – In Murcia, arrears where the loan is in negative equity constitutes 1.3 ppts of the regional pool, out of the 18.3% of the regional pool in arrears (See Figure 11).
6 Using regional house price indices from MDV takes into account regional differences and provide more
granularity in estimating negative equity.
Sector average arrears = 7.5%
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Figure 10: Regional arrears versus percentage of pool in
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A side note on negative equity and arrears liquidation loss While outside the direct scope of examining credit drivers, we take a short detour to use loan level data to, in effect, mark-to-market loans in arrears. This was previously not possible to do with aggregate investor reporting data and adds another dimension to credit analysis.
If lenders were to liquidate all arrears7 in Spanish pools, the loss across the universe would be just 43 bps (“arrears liquidation loss”). But this average hides the significant variation across deals – with the highest arrears liquidation loss in later vintage deals such as HIPO HIPO 10, TDAC 9 and CAJAM 2007-3 (Figure 12).
7 By liquidation loss, we mean the difference between the liquidation value of the property and the
mortgage. Liquidation value is the cash realised if the lender were to repossess the property backing the
mortgage and auction/sell it in the market to realise cash. We assume a 15% liquidation discount i.e, that
the property is sold for 15% lesser than indexed property value, to account for transaction/legal costs,
house specific features and potential firesale discounts.
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Figure 12: Arrears liquidation loss by deal (highest 30)
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The c.43 bps average arrears liquidation loss applies to current price declines– indeed further house price deterioration would result in higher losses where arrears are liquidated. If Spanish prices decline another 20% to bring the total house price decline from the peak to c.57% (marginally worse than Ireland where peak to trough prices stand at c.50%), the amount of arrears in negative equity would double, to constitute 40% of total arrears (not accounting for incremental arrears formation) and 3.0% of the total pool.
Arrears and unemployment The employment status of a borrower is defined as a static field which means lenders are not required to update this field on an ongoing basis under ECB taxonomy guidelines.8 Curiously, in some deals we do find some exposure to unemployed borrowers – this is either because the lender has updated the new employment status of the borrower anyway, or that the initial loan was granted to an unemployed borrower. While the latter may appear surprising to readers, our understanding from interactions with lenders is that this can occur if the amount of the loan is low relative to the borrower’s net worth, or when monthly debt service can be met with investment income from accounts held at the lender.
The employment status for only EUR 2.9 billion (6.2% of reported mortgages) is reported as “No Data” with most of the mortgages classified into the available categories– some 62% of outstanding mortgages in RMBS pools were given to fully employed borrowers or where the loan was otherwise guaranteed. 10.9% of loans are against self employed borrowers of which 12.2% are currently in arrears (see Figure 13).
With youth unemployment in excess of 50%, loans to students (16.4% arrears ratio) have seen the highest level of stress, although we must add that student loans constitute just 0.4% of the total mortgage universe. The other most affected segments are loans where the borrower is unemployed (11.3% arrears
8 However, in some cases, a lender’s branches may update the status when it finds out that the situation
has changed, or when the risk of a borrower is reassessed as directed by the lender’s systems.
Nevertheless, it is likely that a number of lenders may not report it on an ongoing basis either because
they do not track employment status or they track it in a different system and do not report it in the loan
tapes.
Average arrears liquidation loss = 43 bps
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ratio), or self-employed (12.2% arrears ratio). As expected the best performance is from borrowers classified as “protected life-time employment” (which are Government employees/public servants) where 4.8% of mortgages are in arrears (Figure 13).
Another way to glean the effect of unemployment is to look at the effect of regional unemployment rates. Plotting arrears percentages versus regional unemployment rates, we find that variation in the unemployment rate captures some 24% of the variance in regional arrears after taking out outliers (Figure 14).
In summary therefore, both the prevalence of negative equity and variation in unemployment rates significantly explain the variation in regional arrears.
Figure 13: Arrears versus employment status Figure 14: Regional arrears versus regional
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Source: European DataWarehouse
Source: European DataWarehouse
Arrears and Loan-to-Income (LTI) ratio – borrower leverage We now turn to consider the impact of borrower leverage as measured by the Loan-to-Income (LTI) ratio9. At the outset, we are hesitant to draw strong conclusions using income-driven leverage ratios because income values shown in loan tapes are “static” fields – i.e, unless lenders choose to report current incomes voluntarily, these are values recorded at the time of origination of the loan. Although we do index individual income using national wage indices in all our income ratios (See Appendix B for data on the historical evolution of average nominal wages in Spain) to capture the average change in income since origination, we would still not capture loans where the borrower is unemployed or has suffered an income shock.
That said, about 4.8 ppts of the 18.3% (Figure 15) arrears from Murcia are from loans where the leverage is higher – i.e. where the LTI ratio is greater than 4. This explains a higher proportion of regional arrears than those in negative equity which constituted just 1.3 ppts. Similarly, Catalunya and Andalucia have 4.8 ppts and 3.1 ppts of their pools in arrears which have a loan to income ratio greater than 4.
9 We define Loan to Income as the ratio of current loan balance to indexed income. We index the incomes
using historical data from OECD on average nominal wages in Spain, as we describe in Appendix II.
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Figure 15: Arrears where loan to income is high Figure 16: Property Occupancy status in Spanish
mortgages
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Source: Deutsche Bank, European DataWarehouse
Source: Deutsche Bank, European DataWarehouse
In aggregate, this suggests that unemployment and income data are important determinants of mortgage performance, albeit a lot of information is lost because current income or employment status may not be accurately reflected by loan tapes.
Arrears and type of property Property occupancy data is present only in EUR 16.4 billion of mortgages (nearly 32% of the sample set of 97 deals). From the data we infer that 15% of loans towards holiday or second homes are in arrears and remain the worst affected sector, but only 3.5% of loans have been allocated to this sector. Owner occupied loans show 11% of arrears and form 28% of the pool (Figure 16). It is to be noted that the high percentage of arrears (60%) in loans where property occupancy data is not present strongly suggests adverse selection – i.e, where lenders have not recorded (or recorded but not reported) property occupancy status, there is a higher likelihood of arrears. This remains another area where reporting can improve.
Additionally, given the popularity of the Spanish property market with foreign buyers, we were hoping that residency status data may shed further light. Although the ECB template for Spanish RMBS reporting provides for residency to be reported, this is not one of the mandatory fields and we find that only 30% of deals (28% by volume) report residency status. We therefore do not delve further into borrower residency status.
What does this mean at a deal level?
Now that we know what loan characteristics have been prominent in explaining arrears performance, we can define risk factors for each deal. We calculate the following risk factors for each deal in our sample universe below. a) the level of exposure to the worst 5 affected regions – Catalunya, Murcia, Andalucia, Valenciana and Balears (Illes). b) the level of exposure to the worst 3 employment types – students, unemployed and self-employed borrowers, c) the proportion of loans in the pool in negative equity, d) the proportion of borrowers with a LTI ratio > 4.
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We present the 97 deals in this study in the table below and highlight the four mentioned risk factors as well as the estimated arrears liquidation loss and liquidation loss if all loans (even those not in arrears) that have a debt service to gross indexed income ratio greater than 30% is liquidated. Note that the data we present is influenced by data quality – there could be loans where data is not disclosed relative to regions, property value, income or loan amount which would influence our numbers.
We reiterate that arrears as calculated using loan tape data is different from that calculated using investor report data. Possible reasons for differences include different sample universes, timing differences, potential difficulties in identifying loans in arrears or slippages in loan level data in recording loans in arrears.
Figure 17: Spanish deal universe from the European DataWarehouse – A summary of risk factors
Key credit metrics Risk Factors
Deal Loan tape date
Total arrears (as per loan
tape)
Latest total arrears (IR)
Arrears liquidation loss as % of total
pool
Liquidation loss for DTI > 30% as % of
total pool
Worst 5 regions as % of total pool
Worst 3 employment
status as % of total pool
Negative equity as % of total
pool
Loan to Income> 4
as % of total pool
AYTCH I 10-Jan-13 9.0% 7.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 13% 0% 5% AYTCH II 27-Mar-13 3.8% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 13% 0% 0% AYTGH II 30-Apr-13 0.6% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 32% 11% 0% 0% AYTGH III 30-Apr-13 0.6% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 37% 11% 0% 0% AYTGH IV 30-Apr-13 0.3% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 38% 10% 0% 0% AYTGH IX 30-Apr-13 1.0% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 52% 12% 3% 0% AYTGH VI 30-Apr-13 0.5% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 44% 12% 0% 0% AYTGH VII 30-Apr-13 0.7% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 52% 10% 1% 0% AYTGH VIII 30-Apr-13 0.7% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 47% 11% 1% 0% AYTGH X 30-Apr-13 1.4% 3.9% 0.1% 0.0% 57% 12% 6% 0% AYTH M2 12-Mar-13 10.2% 5.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 11% 0% 0% BBK 2005-1 30-Apr-13 6.3% 5.1% 0.1% 0.2% 3% 23% 3% 26% BBK 2006-2 30-Apr-13 6.0% 5.3% 0.5% 1.3% 4% 20% 11% 48% BBVAR 2007-1 12-Mar-13 1.7% 11.3% 0.2% 3.3% 0% 10% 20% 82% BBVAR 2007-2 12-Mar-13 2.3% 12.0% 0.1% 0.6% 0% 17% 1% 72% BBVAR 2007-3 14-Feb-13 3.9% 18.2% 0.7% 9.6% 0% 10% 61% 85% BCJAF 10 28-Feb-13 8.8% 12.9% 0.8% 5.9% 74% 12% 23% 82% BCJAF 11 31-Jan-13 9.2% 14.1% 1.1% 7.8% 75% 13% 35% 85% BCJAF 3 31-Mar-13 1.8% 6.4% 0.0% 0.0% 83% 9% 0% 12% BCJAF 4 31-Mar-13 2.2% 7.5% 0.0% 0.0% 76% 0% 0% 0% BCJAF 5 31-Jan-13 1.8% 5.7% 0.0% 0.0% 73% 1% 0% 1% BCJAF 6 28-Feb-13 1.8% 6.7% 0.0% 0.0% 77% 4% 0% 46% BCJAF 7 28-Feb-13 2.8% 8.3% 0.0% 0.0% 71% 17% 0% 50% BCJAF 8 31-Jan-13 5.7% 11.2% 0.1% 0.6% 71% 15% 2% 66% BCJAF 9 31-Mar-13 8.3% 13.7% 0.3% 2.0% 73% 14% 7% 72% BCJAM 1 28-Feb-13 3.8% 11.2% 0.0% 0.0% 87% 20% 0% 26% BCJAM 2 28-Feb-13 5.3% 12.0% 0.0% 0.0% 83% 30% 0% 36% BCJAM 3 31-Mar-13 6.2% 13.4% 0.1% 0.5% 81% 28% 2% 45% BCJAM 4 31-Jan-13 7.5% 15.7% 0.2% 1.1% 83% 27% 5% 49% BFTH 10 31-Mar-13 0.8% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 39% 9% 1% 14% BFTH 11 28-Feb-13 0.8% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 42% 9% 0% 18% BFTH 13 31-Jan-13 1.5% 5.7% 0.0% 0.6% 42% 11% 10% 31% BFTH 2 31-Jan-13 0.7% 4.6% 0.0% 0.0% 26% 7% 0% 0% BFTH 3 31-Jan-13 0.5% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 35% 8% 0% 0% BFTH 4 28-Feb-13 0.2% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 38% 6% 0% 0% BFTH 5 28-Feb-13 0.5% 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% 36% 8% 0% 1% BFTH 6 28-Feb-13 0.6% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 43% 7% 0% 1% BFTH 7 31-Mar-13 0.8% 5.4% 0.0% 0.0% 36% 10% 0% 3% BFTH 8 31-Mar-13 1.1% 4.6% 0.0% 0.0% 40% 10% 0% 2% BFTH 9 31-Jan-13 0.9% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 45% 9% 0% 9% BVA 1 25-Feb-13 1.0% 6.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 9% 0% 29% BVA 2 18-Jan-13 3.4% 9.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 12% 0% 50% BVA 3 18-Mar-13 4.0% 7.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0% 15% 0% 61%
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CAJAM 2006-1 28-Feb-13 4.7% 18.6% 1.1% 17.5% 18% 6% 66% 91% CAJAM 2006-2 28-Feb-13 5.2% 21.1% 1.2% 16.5% 19% 7% 63% 90% CAJAM 2007-3 28-Feb-13 6.0% 22.3% 1.4% 17.6% 26% 7% 72% 93% CLAB 2006-1 31-Mar-13 3.8% 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 22% 1% 16% GRANA 2007-1 28-Feb-13 35.0% 34.0% 1.9% 0.0% 0% 23% 14% 0% HIPO HIPO-10 24-Apr-13 21.2% 23.9% 2.6% 4.2% 82% 17% 26% 51% HIPO HIPO-4 15-Mar-13 3.5% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 90% 18% 0% 0% HIPO HIPO-5 15-Apr-13 6.3% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 92% 16% 0% 8% HIPO HIPO-6 15-Mar-13 8.0% 8.0% 0.0% 0.0% 93% 13% 0% 15% HIPO HIPO-7 15-Apr-13 12.7% 11.7% 0.0% 0.0% 81% 16% 0% 21% HIPO HIPO-8 15-Mar-13 14.9% 14.1% 0.5% 0.5% 91% 18% 2% 32% HIPO HIPO-9 15-Apr-13 17.2% 17.3% 1.2% 1.7% 83% 19% 8% 44% HMSF X 28-Mar-13 1.9% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 45% 4% 0% 7% HMSF XI 28-Mar-13 3.2% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 50% 5% 0% 20% IMCAJ 3 28-Feb-13 18.0% 14.4% 0.2% 0.2% 89% 11% 1% 30% IMCAJ 4 28-Feb-13 16.8% 13.7% 0.4% 0.6% 91% 10% 3% 37% IMPAS 2 28-Feb-13 13.7% 13.5% 0.0% 0.0% 43% 36% 0% 4% IMPAS 3 28-Feb-13 36.5% 36.3% 0.0% 0.0% 56% 44% 0% 17% IMPAS 4 28-Feb-13 33.4% 33.5% 1.1% 0.7% 52% 45% 5% 23% KUTXH 1 30-Apr-13 2.2% 3.1% 0.1% 0.4% 17% 15% 6% 42% KUTXH 2 30-Apr-13 8.1% 10.5% 1.4% 3.9% 20% 16% 23% 60% PENED 1 31-Dec-12 8.6% 9.9% 0.2% 0.0% 99% 46% 2% 0% RHIPG I 11-Jan-13 3.8% 13.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0% 37% 0% 24% RHIPO 3 13-Mar-13 0.8% 7.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 21% 0% 5% RHIPO 4 13-Feb-13 1.2% 10.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 21% 0% 8% RHIPO 5 15-Mar-13 1.4% 8.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 22% 0% 15% RHIPO 6 10-Jan-13 2.0% 9.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 21% 0% 19% RHIPO 7 08-Mar-13 2.3% 10.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 28% 0% 20% RHIPO 8 14-Jan-13 2.9% 12.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0% 25% 0% 27% RHIPO 9 12-Feb-13 5.7% 17.6% 0.2% 0.8% 0% 27% 6% 35% SABA 1 28-Feb-13 10.3% 7.8% 0.0% 0.0% 53% 13% 0% 0% SHIPO 1 30-Apr-13 2.9% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 51% 2% 0% 46% SHIPO 2 30-Apr-13 4.7% 4.7% 0.3% 2.3% 44% 3% 14% 62% SHIPO 3 30-Apr-13 7.0% 7.6% 1.2% 6.5% 42% 1% 49% 76% TDA 19 28-Feb-13 19.7% 41.3% 0.0% 0.0% 96% 0% 0% 0% TDA 26 31-Dec-12 11.6% 11.5% 0.2% 0.0% 52% 10% 1% 0% TDA 29 31-Jan-13 12.7% 12.4% 0.7% 0.0% 59% 15% 13% 0% TDAC 1 28-Feb-13 9.1% 8.6% 0.0% 0.0% 95% 14% 0% 0% TDAC 2 31-Mar-13 11.5% 10.7% 0.0% 0.0% 86% 14% 0% 5% TDAC 3 31-Mar-13 12.4% 12.1% 0.0% 0.0% 94% 13% 0% 4% TDAC 4 28-Feb-13 12.9% 13.3% 0.0% 0.0% 90% 13% 0% 0% TDAC 5 31-Mar-13 17.1% 16.9% 0.1% 0.0% 83% 11% 1% 10% TDAC 6 31-Mar-13 24.9% 24.3% 0.8% 0.3% 83% 12% 8% 13% TDAC 7 31-Jan-13 22.1% 21.6% 1.2% 0.0% 82% 11% 17% 0% TDAC 8 31-Jan-13 19.8% 21.4% 0.7% 0.0% 90% 14% 9% 0% TDAC 9 31-Mar-13 26.5% 26.0% 1.8% 4.0% 91% 15% 22% 57% TDAI 1 31-Jan-13 1.4% 9.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 17% 0% 13% TDAI 2 31-Jan-13 2.5% 11.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 20% 0% 38% TDAI 3 02-Apr-13 3.5% 10.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0% 18% 1% 53% TDAI 4 28-Feb-13 5.0% 16.7% 0.2% 1.6% 0% 20% 5% 59% TDAI 5 28-Feb-13 4.8% 14.7% 0.3% 2.8% 0% 21% 15% 65% TDAP 1 28-Feb-13 10.3% 10.9% 0.0% 0.0% 32% 0% 0% 0% TDCAJ 2 28-Feb-13 15.8% 15.2% 0.0% 0.0% 94% 16% 0% 16% UCI 9 12-Mar-13 4.4% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0% 9% 0% 20% Source: Deutsche Bank, European DataWarehouse
Spanish Senior RMBS Relative Value
For relative value in Spanish RMBS, we selected 30 recently traded senior Spanish bonds where loan level data is available in the European DataWarehouse. Please see Appendix D for details about individual bonds and selected credit metrics of the deals used in this section.
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We classify bonds trading under 300 bps as Tier 1 – these constitute what are perceived to be among the safest bonds in the Spanish universe, or those with a potential tender optionality. Tier 2 bonds are defined as offering a spread under 375 bps but over 300 bps – these are perceived to be of inferior quality or from weaker originators, and Tier 3 bonds are those that trade over 375 bps in the current environment and trade wide due to credit impairment, or shelf or name–specific investor risk aversion. Note that our classification of tiers is not on any “scientific” basis, but based on what we think subjectively as appropriate – there could well be bonds (and we highlight a few) which should belong to the tighter spread sector, therefore offering value.
Following this tiering, we note that Spanish 3rd tier senior bonds offer a pick-up of anywhere between 50-225 bps over top tier senior bonds (Figure 18).
We find that the market prices bonds broadly in line with the ratio of credit enhancement of the bond to the total arrears in the pool (Figure 18). As the credit enhancement increases relative to total arrears, the spread is found to decrease. However, this ignores the fact that although two deals can have the same total arrears percentage, they can differ significantly in the ultimate degree of loss. Loans in arrears in one deal could be from loans where there is substantial equity in the property, hence resulting in lower losses. Additionally, this does not take into account prospective arrears formation i.e. one of the deals could have a higher chance of deteriorating credit performance, while the other may not.
In order to overcome these shortcomings, in each deal, we liquidated all loans with a debt service to gross indexed income (DTI) ratio > 30%. While the measure has some shortcomings in the form of using indexed income and not capturing loan specific income shock and unemployment, it still has information value related to aggregate borrower leverage. At an aggregate level, one can expect that a pool originated at a higher DTI will, over the course of the deal life and all else being equal, end up with higher arrears. The liquidation value10 accounts for regional differences in house prices as well as the individual loan value and gives a more accurate picture of the loss. This should act as a better factor for pool credit quality than just total current arrears percentage since both borrower leverage and house price impact is accounted for, in addition to being a metric for prospective arrears. Note that this has been made possible by loan level data, something that is not possible to calculate using aggregate data from investor reports.
Figure 19 shows the same bonds, but this time the X-axis is set at our new bond safety metric – the ratio of credit enhancement (CE) to liquidation loss of the loan subpool where DTI > 30%11. Instead of plotting the absolute metric on the X-axis, we scaled this number to 100- the deals with the highest CE to the above liquidation loss metric are at 100 (higher bond safety), and the lowest CE to liquidation loss metric are close to 012(lower bond safety).
10 For liquidation value, we assume a that the property is sold at a discount of 15% to indexed property
value. This is meant to account for firesale risks, property specific features and legal/transaction costs. 11
We have chosen a 30% threshold as it is broadly accepted as a general thumbrule for borrowers to get
into distress –any higher threshold above 30% such as 35% and 40% may also be chosen. There is not a
proven threshold level – too high a threshold and one is likely to miss a number of borrowers who may get
into distress, and too low a threshold, and one is likely to capture borrowers who are easily able to afford
the mortgage. 12
This removes the difficulties associated with very small liquidation loss percentages which can result in
the ratio being very high. It would make chart interpretation difficult. The scaled information captures the
relevant data adequately for relative value purposes.
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In the charts below, we show WAL of the bond within brackets after the name of the bond in the label.
Figure 18: Spread versus (CE to total arrears ratio) Figure 19: Spread versus (CE to DTI > 30% Liquidation
loss ratio)
AYTGH IX A2
AYTGH IV ABFTH 13 A2
BVA 3 A2
BCJAF 4 A
BCJAF 10 A2
BCJAM 4 A2
CAJAM 2006-1 A2
SABA 1 A2
TDAC 8 A
TDAC 9 A2
UCI 9 A
HIPO HIPO-8 A2
BFTH 10 A2
BCJAF 6 A2TDAC 4 A
HIPO HIPO-7 A2
TDAI 4 A2
AYTGH II ABFTH 3 A
BFTH 4 ABFTH 6 ABFTH 7 A
BFTH 8 A
SHIPO 1 ASHIPO 2 ATDAC 3 A
RHIPO 8 A2A
225
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325
375
425
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525
0 10 20 30 40 50
Sp
read
(b
ps)
Credit enhancement % / Total arrears as % of pool
AYTGH IX A2 (8.0)
AYTGH IV A (6.2)BFTH 13 A2 (8.0)
BVA 3 A2 (6.2)
BCJAF 4 A (5.0)
BCJAF 10 A2 (5.0)
BCJAM 4 A2 (8.0)
CAJAM 2006-1 A2
(7.0)
SABA 1 A2 (5.3)
TDAC 8 A (6.4)
TDAC 9 A2 (6.7)
UCI 9 A (6.9)
HIPO HIPO-8 A2 (5.6)
AYTGH IV A (6.2)
BFTH 10 A2 (7.6)
BCJAF 6 A2 (4.6)TDAC 4 A (4.7)
HIPO HIPO-7 A2 (6.3)
TDAI 4 A2 (8.5)
AYTGH II A (6.0)
BFTH 3 A (4.0)
BFTH 4 A (5.0)BFTH 6 A (6.5)BFTH 7 A (6.5)BFTH 8 A (6.7)
SHIPO 1 A (4.5)
SHIPO 2 A (7.0)
TDAC 3 A (3.5)
HIPO HIPO-5 A (6.0)RHIPO 8 A2A (6.0)
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Source: Deutsche Bank, Indicative spread levels, European DataWarehouse. Total Arrears include defaults-in-hand and reflect total arrears from loan tapes
Source: Deutsche Bank, Indicative spread levels, European DataWarehouse. Note that deals where the liquidation loss is zero are assigned an X-axis value of 100..
This method throws up interesting relative value areas in the Spanish senior RMBS sector to look further into, some of which are highlighted by the red ovals. We look for bond switches where a bond A that is trading tighter has a lower ratio of credit enhancement to the liquidation loss for loans with DTI > 30% relative to another bond B. In such a scenario, an investor could switch to bond B from bond A, pickup spread, and not compromise on bond safety.
As a double check, we nevertheless also look at the ratio of credit enhancement to total arrears. This is to avoid the pitfalls of basing our recommendations on a single liquidation loss metric. We make our recommendations in the following section.
Summary and recommendations
Mining loan level data allows for a new layer of credit analysis which can add substantial value not discernible using aggregate data from investor reports. Using loan-level data, we compare credit quality for 97 deals across the Spanish RMBS universe and identify the extent of stressed mortgages based on various risk factors – geography, LTV (current indexed), employment status, loan-to-income ratios, and property occupancy type.
We find that the regions on the Mediterranean coast – Andalucia, Murcia, Valenciana and Catalunya are the worst hit regions with regional arrears percentages close to or well over 10%. Unemployment rates and regional house price declines remain prominent explanatory factors for regional variation in arrears performance.
We identify relative value based on the ratio of credit enhancement relative to liquidation loss of loans with DTI > 30%, and secondary spreads. As a double check, we also look to see that we do not compromise on bond safety as
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3 Tier 3
Tier 2
Tier 1
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measured by the ratio of credit enhancement to total arrears13. We also show whether the deals have been previously tendered – if they were tendered, the bonds are very likely to be consolidated on the sponsor’s balance sheet making future tenders a possibility. If bonds have not been tendered previously, unless explicitly mentioned in the sponsor’s financial reports, it is hard to be sure whether the bonds are consolidated.
We recommend the following four bond switches among senior Spanish RMBS:– Spread levels are indicative only, and bid-offer basis may reduce the spread pickup available in the switch. Although spread pickup looks marginal in the switches, we think that the switches offer value in terms of moving to a bond with greater safety.
a) Switch from BFTH 13 A2 to BCJAF 6 A2 to pickup 15 bps
Rationale – Switch to BCJAF 6 A2 to pickup c15bps in spread and at the same time reduce WAL. Credit enhancement of the BCJAF 6 bond at 22% is well above that of BFTH 13 A2, with liquidation loss of the former being nearly 0% as noted below.
Figure 20: BFTH 13 A2 to BCJAF 6 A2
Bond Tier Tendered? DM (bp) WAL CE of bond Liquidation Loss for DTI > 30%
Total Arrears as % of total
pool*
CE/ Liquidation
Loss
CE/Total arrears
Vintage Action
BFTH 13 A2 Tier 1 No 300 8.4 11.0% -0.6% 5.7% 19.5 1.9 2006 Switch from
BCJAF 6 A2 Tier 2 No 315 4.3 22.4% 0.0% 6.7% 12,267.1 3.3 2003 Switch to Source: Deutsche Bank, Indicative Spreads and WAL, European Data Warehouse * Total arrears includes loans in defaults. The higher number from investor report and loan tape is considered here to be conservative
b) Switch from SABA 1 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A to pickup 15 bps
Rationale – Switching to HIPO HIPO 5 A would provide a spread pickup of 15 bps while moving to a cleaner pool (total arrears at 6.3% lower than SABA 1 where it is 10.3%). Credit enhancement of the former bond is much higher at c.20% compared to the 5.8% credit enhancement of SABA 1 A2.
Figure 21: SABA 1 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A
Bond Tier Tendered? DM (bp) WAL CE of bond Liquidation Loss for DTI > 30%
Total Arrears as % of total
pool*
CE/ Liquidation
Loss
CE/Total arrears
Vintage Action
SABA 1 A2 Tier 2 Yes 310 5.4 5.8% 0.0% 10.3% NA 0.6 2004 Switch from
HIPO HIPO-5 A
Tier 2 Yes 325 6.0 19.9% 0.0% 6.3% NA 3.1 2002 Switch to
Source: Deutsche Bank, Indicative Spreads and WAL, European Data Warehouse * Total arrears includes loans in defaults. The higher number from investor report and loan tape is considered here to be conservative
c) Switch from BCJAM 4 A2 to RHIPO 8 A2A to pickup 10 bps
Rationale – Pickup 10 bps in spread terms by moving to RHIPO 8 A2A which is also shorter in WAL by about 2 years. While the credit enhancement of RHIPO 8 A2A is lower by about 1.3ppts, total arrears at 12.7% in RHIPO 8 is lower than the 15.7% total arrears in BCJAM 4 A2. Liquidation loss (for DTI>30%) in RHIPO 8 also stands lower at close to 0.1% compared to a 1.1% estimated liquidation loss for BCJAM 4 A2.
13In order to be conservative, where total arrears using the loan tape is different from total arrears using
the investor report, we have used the higher of the two numbers in calculating the CE/Total arrears ratio.
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Figure 22: BCJAM 4 A2 to RHIPO 8 A2A
Bond Tier Tendered? DM (bp) WAL CE of bond Liquidation Loss for DTI > 30%
Total Arrears as % of total
pool*
CE/ Liquidation
Loss
CE/Total arrears
Vintage Action
BCJAM 4 A2
Tier 2 Yes 325 8.0 13.1% -1.1% 15.7% 12.1 0.8 2007 Switch from
RHIPO 8 A2A
Tier 2 Yes 335 6.0 11.8% -0.1% 12.7% 150.6 0.9 2006 Switch to
Source: Deutsche Bank, Indicative Spreads and WAL, European Data Warehouse * Total arrears includes loans in defaults. The higher number from investor report and loan tape is considered here to be conservative
d) Switch from BVA 3 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A
Rationale-While there is just 9 bps pickup in spread from the switch, HIPO HIPO-5 has a lower estimated liquidation loss and the senior bond has a higher attachment point (nearly 2x) compared to that of BVA 3. CE/liquidation loss as well as CE/total arrears ratio of BVA 3 A2 stands lower than HIPO HIPO-5 A making the switch attractive.
HIPO HIPO-5 has also been tendered before by the sponsor (Catalunya Banc) while BVA 3 has not been tendered previously (although we note that the deal is consolidated on sponsor’s books). While admittedly not certain, it opens up the possibility that the Hipocat 5 deal has a higher tender optionality given repeat tenders from sponsors that have been coming through in the sector.
Figure 23: BVA 3 A2 to HIPO HIPO-5 A
Bond Tier Tendered? DM (bp) WAL CE of bond Liquidation Loss for
DTI > 30%
Total Arrears as % of
total pool*
CE/ Liquidation
Loss
CE/Total arrears
Vintage Action
BVA 3 A2** Tier 2 No 316 6.7 10.1% -0.1% 7.9% 182.4 1.3 2006 Switch from
HIPO HIPO-5 A Tier 2 Yes 325 6.0 19.9% 0.0% 6.3% NA 3.1 2002 Switch to Source: Deutsche Bank. * Total arrears includes loans in defaults. The higher number from investor report and loan tape is considered here to be conservative **While BVA 3 has not been tendered before, we note that the deal is consolidated on the books of CaixaBank. Indicative Spreads and WAL, European Data Warehouse
Risks: Worse than expected credit performance in deals from higher unemployment rate or a persistent deep property downcycle are risks to our recommendations. Spreads and yields are contingent on prepayment and default rates. Bond specific illiquidity and technical factors as well as deal specific risks such as those associated with sponsors and counterparties are additional risks to bear in mind.
Note that spread levels in the relative value tables above are indicative, and are sensitive to prepayment rate, default rate, and loss severity assumptions. A 2.5% - 4.5% CPR is assumed to derive DMs for the bonds using the Bloomberg cash flow model. The above indicated spread levels are also driven by when (and if) pro-rata triggers are toggled which depends on credit performance, and spread levels may change materially depending on trigger assumptions.
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APPENDIX A
The following table shows the number of deals in each programme for which the European DataWarehouse has loan level data and current sponsors of Spanish RMBS programmes taking into account the consolidation in the Spanish banking system.
Figure 24: European DataWarehouse coverage by Programme
BBG Ticker # placed deals Original Sponsor Investor placed deals Covered by European DataWarehouse
New Sponsor (due to banking sector consolidation)
AYT 3 Vital Kutxa 0 Kutxa Bank
AYTCH 2 Caja Murcia 2 Banco Mare Nostrum
AYTGH 8 Barclays 8 Barclays
AYTH 6 Banca Civica ,Caja Granada ,Spanish savings banks ,CajaRioja ,Caja Vital ,ElMonte ,Banco
Gallego ,Credifimo ,Caixa de Manlleu ,Banesto
1 Caixabank ,Banco Mare Nostrum ,Spanish savings
banks ,Bankia ,Kutxa Bank ,Banco
Sabadell ,BBVA ,Banco Santander
BANES 1 Banesto 0 Banco Santander
BBVAR 3 BBVA 3 BBVA
BCJAF 9 Bancaja 9 Bankia
BCJAM 4 Bancaja 4 Bankia
BFTH 11 Bankinter 11 Bankinter
BVA 3 Banco de Valencia 3 Caixabank
CAJAM 3 Caja Madrid 3 Bankia
CLAB 1 Caja Laboral 1 Caja Laboral Popular
GCPAS 5 1 Banco Pastor 0 Banco Popular
HIPO HIPO 8 Diada 7 Catalunya Banc
HMSF 2 Santander 2 Banco Santander
IMCAJ 3 Cajamar 2 Cajamar Caja Rural
IMPAS 3 Banco Pastor 2 Banco Popular/bancopopular-e.com
IMTEM 1 Unnim 0 BBVA
KUTXHA 2 Kutxa 2 Kutxa Bank
PENED 2 Caixa Penedes 1 Banco Sabadell
RHIPG 1 Spanish savings banks 1 Spanish savings banks
RHIPO 7 Caja Rural del Sur SCC ,Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Ronda ,Cadiz ,Almeria ,Unicaja ,Caja
Rural del Sur SCC ,Spanish savings banks
7 Caja Rural del Sur SCC,Unicaja Banco,Spanish savings banks
SABA 1 Banco Sabadell 1 Banco Sabadell
SHIPO 3 Santander 3 Banco Santander
TDA 13 Kutxa ,Caja de Ahorros Provincial San Fernando de Sevilla y Jerez,Banco
Guipuzcoano,Unnim,Cajamar,SA Nostra ,Caja Caminos ,Caja Ingenieros ,Barclays,Banco
Gallego,Credifimo,Banca Civica,Diada,Banca March,Caja de Ahorros de Castil la
Mancha,Bankpime,Credifimo,Caja Granada,Vital Kutxa
3 Kutxa Bank ,CaixaBank,Banco Sabadell,BBVA,Cajamar Caja
Rural,Banco Mare Nostrum,Banco Caminos,Caja Ingenieros,Barclays,Catalunya Banc,Banca March,Liberbank
TDAC 9 Caja Mediterraneo 9 Banco Sabadell
TDAI 5 Ibercaja 5 Ibercaja/Banco Grupo Cajatres (In process)
TDAP 1 Banco Pastor 1 Banco Popular
TDCAJ 1 Cajamar 1 Cajamar Caja Rural
UCI 9 UCI 1 Banco Santander/BNP Paribas Source: Deutsche Bank, European DataWarehouse, deal documents. Consolidation details taken from deal documentation,annual reports of Spanish banks, rating agency data, FROB website, Bank of Spain data.
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APPENDIX B
We present below the annual average wages in Spain from OECD Data. The data represents nominal wages until 2011. In order to complete the indexation to 2013, we use the Ministerio de Hacienda’s real wages index in 2012 and 2013 and convert the figures to nominal percentage changes using the Spanish GDP deflator from Eurostat.
Figure 25: Spanish nominal wage evolution
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17000
19000
21000
23000
25000
27000
29000
1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
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Year % y-o-y2005 3.83%
2006 3.20%
2007 4.48%2008 6.38%
2009 4.99%
2010 2.33%2011 2.06%
2012 -4.82%
2013 -3.75%
Source: Deutsche Bank, Minsterio de Hacienda, OECD Statistics, Eurostat
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APPENDIX C
We present a table below which is a snapshot of the key fields extracted from the loan tape of a randomly selected Spanish RMBS deal
Figure 26: Snapshot of key fields in loan level data
LoanID OriginalLTV
Primary
Income
Secondary
Income
Valuation
Amount
OriginationDate
Account
Status
Months
In
Arrears
Current
Interest
Rate
Loan
Term
Original
Balance
Current
Balance
Employment
Status
Occupancy Geography
XXXXX1 68 33439 0 105928.38 01-Oct-01 1 (Performing)
0 1.28 240 72,121 19,794
1 (Employed or full loan is guaranteed)
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES511 (Cataluña)
XXXXX2 66 34952 0 219281.96 01-Oct-01 1 (Performing)
0 2.06 274 144,243 11,313
1 (Employed or full loan is guaranteed)
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES300 (Madrid (Comunidad de))
XXXXX3 26 33662 0 177058.17 01-Jul-01 1 (Performing)
0 1.7 180 46,879 12,838
3 (Protected life-time employment)
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES614 (Andalucía)
XXXXX4 73 32914 0 112389.26 01-Jun-01 1 (Performing)
0 1.81 300 81,738 51,889
2 (Employed with partial support (company subsidy))
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES120 (Asturias (Principado de ))
XXXXX5 52 36194 0 115394.32 01-Jun-01 1 (Performing)
0 1.75 300 60,101 29,028
1 (Employed or full loan is guaranteed)
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES511 (Cataluña)
XXXXX6 75 36699 0 48251.19 01-Oct-00 1 (Performing)
0 1.49 420 36,061 28,080
2 (Employed with partial support (company subsidy))
1 (Owner-occupied)
ES300 (Madrid (Comunidad de))
XXXXX7 44 35582 0 245813.95 01-Dec-00 1 (Performing)
0 0.99 300 108,182 66,527
9 (Other) 1 (Owner-occupied)
ES111 (Galicia)
XXXXX8 78 97503 0 209044.03 01-Nov-00 1 (Performing)
0 1.05 360 162,273 106,482
9 (Other) 1 (Owner-occupied)
ES511 (Cataluña)
Source: Deutsche Bank, European DataWarehouse. Loan ID and Deal name withheld to avoid license conflicts
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APPENDIX D
Bonds for relative value analysis
In the table below, we show the sample set of 30 bonds that were used in our relative value study. Details about bond credit enhancement as well as deal credit metrics such as total arrears and liquidation loss metrics are also presented.
Figure 27: Bonds for relative value analysis
Bond Loan tape date
Spread WAL Tendered?
Tier Credit Enhance
ment
Liquidation loss
DTI>30%
Total arrears (as per
loan tape)
Latest total arrears (IR)
Arrears liquidatio
n loss
Vintage CE/liquidation loss
DTI>30%
CE/total arrears
AYTGH II A Apr-13 270 6.0 No 1 9.9% 0.0% 0.6% 2.4% 0.0% 2003 NA 4.2 AYTGH IV A Apr-13 280 6.2 No 1 9.5% 0.0% 0.3% 1.3% 0.0% 2004 NA 7.3 AYTGH IX A2 Apr-13 300 8.0 No 2 8.3% 0.0% 1.0% 2.8% -0.1% 2006 NA 2.9 BCJAF 10 A2 Feb-13 475 5.0 Yes 3 13.1% -5.9% 8.8% 12.9% -0.8% 2007 2 1.0 BCJAF 4 A Mar-13 280 5.0 No 1 9.7% 0.0% 2.2% 7.5% 0.0% 2002 NA 1.3 BCJAF 6 A2 Feb-13 315 4.3 No 2 22.4% 0.0% 1.8% 6.7% 0.0% 2003 12,267 3.3 BCJAM 4 A2 Jan-13 325 8.0 Yes 2 13.1% -1.1% 7.5% 15.7% -0.2% 2007 12 0.8 BCJAM 4 A3* Jan-13 657 2.2 Yes 3 13.1% -1.1% 7.5% 15.7% -0.2% 2007 12 0.8 BFTH 10 A2 Mar-13 290 7.6 No 1 10.4% 0.0% 0.8% 4.2% 0.0% 2005 667 2.5 BFTH 13 A2 Jan-13 300 8.4 No 1 11.0% -0.6% 1.5% 5.7% 0.0% 2006 20 1.9 BFTH 3 A Jan-13 260 4.0 No 1 17.7% 0.0% 0.5% 3.4% 0.0% 2001 NA 5.2 BFTH 4 A Feb-13 265 5.0 No 1 12.4% 0.0% 0.2% 3.4% 0.0% 2002 NA 3.7 BFTH 6 A Feb-13 275 6.5 No 1 12.1% 0.0% 0.6% 3.7% 0.0% 2003 NA 3.2 BFTH 7 A Mar-13 285 6.5 No 1 11.5% 0.0% 0.8% 5.4% 0.0% 2004 NA 2.1 BFTH 8 A Mar-13 285 6.7 No 1 11.3% 0.0% 1.1% 4.6% 0.0% 2004 NA 2.5 BVA 3 A2 Mar-13 316 6.7 No 2 10.1% -0.1% 4.0% 7.9% 0.0% 2006 182 1.3 CAJAM 2006-1 A2 Feb-13 335 7.0 Yes 2 30.8% -17.5% 4.7% 18.6% -1.1% 2006 2 1.7 HIPO HIPO-5 A Apr-13 325 6.0 Yes 2 19.9% 0.0% 6.3% 4.0% 0.0% 2002 NA 3.1 HIPO HIPO-7 A2 Apr-13 350 6.3 Yes 2 23.1% 0.0% 12.7% 11.7% 0.0% 2004 590 1.8 HIPO HIPO-8 A2 Mar-13 375 5.6 Yes 3 22.4% -0.5% 14.9% 14.1% -0.5% 2005 43 1.5 RHIPO 8 A2A Jan-13 335 6.0 Yes 2 11.8% -0.1% 2.9% 12.7% 0.0% 2006 151 0.9 SABA 1 A2 Feb-13 310 5.4 Yes 2 5.8% 0.0% 10.3% 7.8% 0.0% 2004 NA 0.6 SHIPO 1 A Apr-13 265 4.5 Yes 1 31.5% 0.0% 2.9% 2.3% 0.0% 2004 1,137 10.7 SHIPO 2 A Apr-13 275 7.0 Yes 1 19.3% -2.3% 4.7% 4.7% -0.3% 2006 8 4.1 TDAC 3 A Mar-13 285 3.5 Yes 1 15.6% 0.0% 12.4% 12.1% 0.0% 2004 NA 1.3 TDAC 4 A Feb-13 316 4.7 Yes 2 12.9% 0.0% 12.9% 13.3% 0.0% 2005 NA 1.0 TDAC 8 A Jan-13 375 6.4 Yes 3 12.6% 0.0% 19.8% 21.4% -0.7% 2007 NA 0.6 TDAC 9 A2 Mar-13 385 6.7 Yes 3 14.7% -4.0% 26.5% 26.0% -1.8% 2007 4 0.6 TDAI 4 A2 Feb-13 368 8.5 Yes 2 10.8% -1.6% 5.0% 16.7% -0.2% 2006 7 0.6 UCI 9 A Mar-13 285 6.9 Yes 1 14.7% 0.0% 4.4% 3.9% 0.0% 2003 NA 3.3 Source: Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg Finance LP.*Bond spread reduces to 223 bps (source: IntexCalc) if senior pro-rata payment trigger is toggled on.Arrears liquidation loss is using loan tape data
We note that there are differences in total arrears as calculated by loan tape and as shown in investor reports, with the latter being on average higher. On average, 90d+ arrears in the sector amounts to 3.8% when looking at loan tapes, which is lower than the 5.7% when sourced from investor reports. Possible reasons for differences include different sample universes, timing differences and potential difficulties in identifying loans in arrears or slippages in loan level data in recording loans in arrears.
In the loan tape, a loan is considered as being in arrears if “account status” is 2 (Arrears) or 3 (Default or Foreclosure).If account status is not available for a loan, it is classified as being in arrears if “arrears balance” is greater than 0, or if “number of months in Arrears” is greater than 0.
Note that the spread levels are purely indicative, and are sensitive to prepayment and default assumptions. A 3 or 4% CPR is assumed to derive the spreads using the Bloomberg cash flow model (CFT page). The above indicated spread levels are also driven by when (and if) pro-rata triggers are toggled which depends on credit performance, therefore spread levels may change materially depending on trigger assumptions.
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