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What are Securitizations?
• Securitizations are a form of structured finance—cash flows are gathered and repackaged for the benefit of investors
• Securitizations are also known as asset backed securities (ABS)
− Borrowers lower their cost of financing− Investors get a credit enhanced product
• Securitization can either be on-balance sheet (secured financing) or off-balance sheet (sale of assets)
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Elements of Securitization
• Servicing of assets− Collection of cash− Payment of cash to investors− Collection decisions (repossession vs. workout)− Originator/seller generally serves as servicer
• Limited recourse to originator/seller− Consistent with “true sale”− Originator/seller frequently retains subordinated classes that
provide credit enhancement to investors
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Advantages to the Issuer
Real Advantages• Reduced cost of funds—every issuer can finance at AAA
rates• Structuring is Flexible—cash flows can be allocated in many
different ways− Credit ratings− Prepayments
Perceived Advantages with Sale Accounting• Improved ratios—leverage declines• Ability to recognize gains on sale of assets
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FAS 140
Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of
Financial Assets and Extinguishments of
Liabilities
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What Is The Conceptual Basis For A Sale Of Financial Assets Under FAS 140?
• The Transferor has SURRENDERED CONTROL of the assets. It should account for its interests in the assets
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Are Leases Covered by FAS 140?
• FAS 140 relates to sale of financial assets− Equipment is not a financial asset− Operating leases are not financial assets− Capital leases can be financial assets
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What are Capital Leases?
• Capital leases are defined in FAS 13 to meet one of the following four criteria
− Lease transfers ownership of property to lessee by end of lease term
− Lease contains bargain purchase option− Lease term at least 75% of economic life− PV of minimum payments (including guarantees obtained at
the inception of the lease) at least 90% of fair value of leasedproperty
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Securitization of Capital Leases
• Capital Leases can be sold in a securitization transaction using a QSPE
• QSPE cannot own non-financial assets—including the residuals—a securitization of capital leases will strip out the residual
• Many operating lease securitization transactions have been structured to be on-balance sheet
− Automobile lease transactions are largest segment− Large residual makes lease operating lease without residual
guarantee
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A Sale Of Financial Assets Must MeetALL Three Conditions
• Legal isolation from transferor
• Transferee must be able to pledge or exchange assets(If transferee is a QSPE, the beneficial interest holders must be able to pledge or exchange their beneficial interests)
• Transferor surrenders control of assets
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What Is Involved In Legal Isolation?
• True sale− Have I sold the assets or have I simply raised money through a
secured borrowing?
• Non-consolidation− Is the buyer of the assets going to be consolidated with the
seller in the event of bankruptcy?
• Two step sale− Sale or contribution to bankruptcy-remote SPE
• True Sale− Transfer to securitization issuer
• Either a true sale or a first perfected security interest
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Why Is a QSPE Important in Securitization?
• If transferee is not a QSPE, it must be able to pledge or exchange the assets for the transfer to be a sale
• FAS 140 REQUIRES that transferor DOES NOT consolidate a QSPE
• FIN 46R extends non-consolidation to most other parties− Cannot have unilateral right to cause the QSPE to liquidate
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What Conditions Must a QSPE Meet?
• “Demonstrably distinct” from the transferor
• Limits on permitted activities
• Limits on assets
• Limits on sales of assets
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What Does “Demonstrably Distinct” Mean?
The SPE cannot be unilaterally dissolved by the transferor, itsaffiliates or agents AND either:
• 10% of the fair value of the interests are held by independent third parties; or
• It is a guaranteed mortgage securitization
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What Limitations Does A QSPE FaceOn Its Activities?
All of the activities must be:
• Significantly limited
• Entirely specified upfront in the legal agreements
• May be changed only with the approval of a majority of the independent investors
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What Assets May A QSPE Hold?
• Passive financial assets transferred to it
• Passive derivatives
• Guarantees
• Servicing rights
• Temporarily non-financial assets obtained through foreclosure
• Cash and other temporary investments
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What Are The Limits On Sales Of Assets?
A QSPE can sell assets only in automatic response to:• Occurrence of an event that:
− Is specified in the legal documents;− Is outside the control of the transferor; AND− Causes the value of the assets to decline
• Exercise of a put by a third-party
• Exercise of a call by a third-party or a ROAP by the transferor
• Termination of the SPE or maturity of the interests
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Can a Transferor Reclaim an Asset?
• A Removal of Account Provision is a conditional call option held by the transferor
− The condition must be beyond the control of the transferor− ROAPs may provide for random removal of assets− When condition is met, transferor must re-recognize the asset
• Clean-up calls− Servicer or affiliates− Cost of servicing must be burdensome− Market standard of 5% to 10%
• Transferor cannot bid in auction if it holds subordinate interest
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What Is The Difference Between “Gain-On-Sale” Accounting And Off-Balance Sheet Accounting?
• NONE. They are the same concept
• A transfer is either a sale or a financing
• If it is a sale, the transferor must recognize a gain or loss
• If it is a financing, the assets remain on the balance sheet, the proceeds from the securitization appear on the balance sheet as secured debt, and no gain or loss is recognized
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Step 1: Calculate book value of the assets sold
Principal amount of loans plusAccrued interest plus
Purchase premium plusDeferred acquisition costs lessPurchase discount less
Deferred acquisition fees lessLoss reserves
How Do You Calculate Gain-On-Sale?
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Step 2: Determine or estimate fair value of classes of securities sold and retained (including servicing assets)
Step 3: Allocate net book value of assets between classes of securities sold and retained
Step 4: Record fair value of guarantees, other forms of recourse, derivatives, etc.
Step 5: Recognize gain or loss on assets sold
Net proceeds (after transaction costs and liabilities recognized in Step 4) less book value allocated to the classes sold
How Do You Calculate Gain-On-Sale?
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Step 6: Continue to carry on the balance sheet at the allocated net book value all retained interests and servicing assets
Step 7: Adjust carrying value of retained interests classified as available for sale or trading to fair value
Available for sale: Other comprehensive income portion of shareholders’ equity
Trading: Net income
How Do You Calculate Gain-On-Sale?
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Gain-On-Sale Example
Principal amount of loansNet carrying value
Deal structure
Class AClass BResidual
Servicing valueTransaction costs
Principal Amt Price Fair Value$950,000,000
$40,000,000100%100%
$950,000,000$40,000,000$30,000,000
$1,000,000$5,000,000
$1,000,000,000$985,000,000
Assumptions
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Gain-On-Sale Example
Class AClass BResidualServicing
Total
Net Proceeds
Pre-tax Gain on Sale
Class Fair Value % of FV Allocation Sold Retained$950,000,000$40,000,000$30,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,021,000,000
93.05%3.92%2.94%0.10%
100%
$916,503,428$38,589,618$28,942,214
$964,740
$985,000,000
$916,503,428$38,589,618
$955,093,046
$985,000,000
$29,906,954
$28,942,214$964,740
$29,906,954
The Residual will be written up by $1,057,786 if it is not accounted for as held-to-maturity (through equity if available for sale; to net income if trading asset.)
Allocations and Calculation of Gain
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How Does A Transferor Value Residual Interests And Servicing Contracts?
• Underlying assumptions about interest rates, default rates, prepayment rates should reflect market assumptions
• Estimates of future cash flows should be based on reasonable and supportable assumptions and estimates
• All evidence should be considered
• Range of estimates should be considered (directly through expected cash flows or indirectly through risk adjusted discount rate)
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What Is The Conceptual Basis For FIN 46R?
• The party that has a majority of the RISKS AND REWARDS from an entity controls that entity and should be required to consolidate it
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History of FIN 46R
• FIN 46 was issued in January 2003− Widely criticized as vague and difficult to apply
• FIN 46R was issued in December 2003− More than half of the paragraphs in the original statement were
changed− Some significant changes − Additional guidance provided in some areas− However, it provided no new guidance on how to apply the test
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Summary of FIN 46R
• Primary Beneficiary refers to the party that has a controlling financial interest in a and must consolidate
• Variable Interests are the means through which financial support is provided to an entity and the providers gain or lose
• Qualifying SPEs under FAS 140 are not subject to the Interpretation—both for the transferor and other parties
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What is a Variable Interest Entity?
• A Variable Interest Entity meets one of the following conditions:− Total equity at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its
activities without additional subordinated support• Presumed minimum of 10% can be overcome by several methods,
including equity greater than expected losses of the entity− Equity investors as a group lack one of the following characteristics:
• Direct or indirect ability to make decisions that affect the entity’s activities through voting rights (with voting rights proportional to obligation to absorb losses and/or right to receive upside)
• Obligation to absorb the expected losses of the entity if they occur• Right to receive expected residual returns of the entity if they occur
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Who Is The Primary BeneficiaryAnd Consolidates?
• Primary Beneficiary holds Variable Interests that will absorb a majority of the VIE’s Expected Losses (the downside) and/or receive a majority of the VIE’s Expected Residual Returns (the upside)
• If one party has a majority of the downside and another has a majority of the upside, the party with the downside will be required to consolidate
• The ability to make decisions that significantly affect the results of the VIE is a “strong indication” of control
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What Are “Expected Losses” And “Expected Residual Returns”?
• Expected Losses is the negative variability in the fair value of the net assets exclusive of variable interests
• Expected Residual Returns is the positive variability in the fair value of the net assets exclusive of variable interests
• Variability in fair value or cash flow?
• How do you allocate expected losses and expected residual returns among different holders of variable interests?
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When Is The Primary Beneficiary Determined?
• Party determines whether it must consolidate a VIE at the time it first becomes involved with the VIE
• Must reconsider on few occasions− Significant change in contractual agreements− Primary Beneficiary sells some or all of its Variable Interests or
another party purchases additional interests− VIE issues new variable interests− Poor performance does not cause reconsideration
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Example Of Calculation Of Expected Losses And Expected Residual Returns
ExpectedCash Flows
ExpectedCash Flows
EstimatedDifference
Estimated Cash Flows Probability (C) = (A) * (D) = sum of (E) = (A) - (F) = (B) * (G) = (B) *
(A) (B) (B) (C) (D) (E) (E) (H) = (F)/1.05 (I) = (G)/1.05
(20) 5% (1.00) 45.00 (65.00) (3.25) (3.10)0 10% 0.00 45.00 (45.00) (4.50) (4.29)
10 25% 2.50 45.00 (35.00) (8.75) (8.33)50 25% 12.50 45.00 5.00 1.25 1.19 80 20% 16.00 45.00 35.00 7.00 6.67
100 15% 15.00 45.00 55.00 8.25 7.86 100% 45.00 (16.50) 16.50 (15.71) 15.71
ExpectedGains
(Cash Flows)
ExpectedLosses
(Cash Flows)
ExpectedLosses
(Fair Value)
ExpectedGains
(Fair Value)
Illustration assumes that all cash flows take place when the assets are sold in one year and that the appropriate risk-free rate is 5%.
Illustration of Expected Variability
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What Are “Silos” In FIN 46?
• A “silo” is a portion of a VIE in which ALL of the liabilities of the “silo” are asset specific—they all rely on specific assets as the only source of payment. A silo will be considered as a separate VIE and will be excluded the analysis of the VIE that owns the specific assets
Silos are expected to rarely exist due to the narrow definition.
E&Y has concluded that a total return swap may result in a silo. Other firms conclude that general recourse debt will eliminate a silo.
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Variable Interests in Specified Assets
• Variable interests may relate only to specific assets and not the VIE as a whole (e.g., a guarantee of a loan; a subordinate interest in a pool of leases held by a VIE)
• Not considered to be variable interests in the VIE if− Specific assets are less than 50% by fair value− Holder has no other significant variable interests in the VIE as
a whole
• Variability from the specific assets is eliminated from the analysis used to identify the primary beneficiary
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Variable Interests Absorb Variability
• Equity
• Subordinate debt
• Guarantees of assets
• Put options
• Liquidity facilities
• Forward contracts to purchase/sell assets not owned
• Certain fees or service contracts
• Derivatives that absorb variability
• Guarantees of residual values
• Options to acquire leased assets at end of lease
• Written options that createvariability are not variable interests
• Most assets create variability
• Operating leases create variability; lessors generally are not the primary beneficiary
• Differences between fixed rate and floating rate debt?
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FAS 140
Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of
Financial Assets and Extinguishments of
Liabilities
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What Is The Conceptual Basis For A Sale Of Financial Assets Under FAS 140?
• The Transferor has SURRENDERED CONTROL of the assets. It should account for its interests in the assets
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A Sale Of Financial Assets Must MeetALL Three Conditions
• Legal isolation from transferor
• Transferee must be able to pledge or exchange assets(If transferee is a QSPE, the beneficial interest holders must be able to pledge or exchange their beneficial interests)
• Transferor surrenders control of assets
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Why Is a QSPE Important in Securitization?
• If transferee is not a QSPE, it must be able to pledge or exchange the assets for the transfer to be a sale
• FAS 140 REQUIRES that transferor DOES NOT consolidate a QSPE
• FIN 46 extends non-consolidation to most other parties
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What Conditions Must a QSPE Meet?
• “Demonstrably distinct” from the transferor
• Limits on permitted activities
• Limits on assets
• Limits on sales of assets
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What Is The Conceptual Basis For FIN 46R?
• The party that has a majority of the RISKS AND REWARDS from an entity controls that entity and should be required to consolidate it
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Summary of FIN 46R
• Primary Beneficiary refers to the party that has a controlling financial interest in a VIE and must consolidate
• Variable Interests are the means through which financial support is provided to an entity and the providers gain or lose
• Qualifying SPEs under FAS 140 are not subject to the Interpretation—both for the transferor and other parties
• Interpretation will affect multi-seller ABCP conduits and CDOs
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What is a Variable Interest Entity?
• A Variable Interest Entity meets one of the following conditions:− Total equity at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its
activities without additional subordinated support• Presumed minimum of 10% can be overcome by several methods,
including equity greater than expected losses of the entity− Equity investors as a group lack one of the following characteristics:
• Direct or indirect ability to make decisions that affect the entity’s activities through voting rights (with voting rights proportional to obligation to absorb losses and/or right to receive upside)
• Obligation to absorb the expected losses of the entity if they occur• Right to receive expected residual returns of the entity if they occur
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Who Is The Primary BeneficiaryAnd Consolidates?
• Primary Beneficiary holds Variable Interests that will absorb a majority of the VIE’s expected losses (the downside) and/or receive a majority of the VIE’s Expected residual returns (the upside)
• If one party has a majority of the downside and another has a majority of the upside, the party with the downside will be required to consolidate
• The ability to make decisions that significantly affect the results of the VIE is a “strong indication” of control
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FAS 140 Amendment—History
• Emerging Issues Task Force had been considering an issue (Issue No. 02-12) whether a QSPE could have the discretion to set the terms of beneficial interests issued after the inception of the QSPE or whether all terms must be specified in the governingdocuments
• Issue could have affected master trusts and ABCP
• FASB took over project in January− Discretion of QSPE to set the terms of interests issued after inception− Ability of transferor to provide credit enhancement and/or liquidity to
QSPE− Equitable right of redemption issue
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FAS 140 Amendment—History
• Exposure draft issued in June 2003− Legal isolation from transferor and affiliates− Two-step transfer must involve a QSPE if beneficial interests
are issued− Prohibition on transferor support− Prohibition on transferor derivatives− Limits on QSPEs that reissue beneficial interests− No equity securities
• Exposure draft widely criticized as inconsistent with control basis of FAS 140
• FASB has made decisions that have overturned some of these proposals
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Subsequent FASB Decisions
• Decisions− Legal isolation from transferor and affiliates− Two-step transfer must involve a QSPE if beneficial interests
are issued− No prohibition on transferor support or transferor derivatives—
as long as consistent with legal isolation− Limits on QSPEs that rollover beneficial interests softened
from prohibition• “Not more than trivial incremental benefit” test (discretion to set
terms; provide credit support; provide liquidity support)− No equity
• Current proposed amendment is far more consistent with the control model of FAS 140 than earlier proposal
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Subsequent FASB Deliberations
• Additions to project− Fair value accounting of servicing rights− Accounting for beneficial interests
• Retained interests initially measured at fair value not cost• Embedded derivatives will require further guidance
• FASB has been focused on issues relating to legal isolation− Participations− Set-off rights− Expect requirements consistent with legal “true sale”
• Revised exposure draft expected in 1Q 2005 with effectiveness in second half of 2005
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EITF Issue No. 03-1
• Not limited to securitization transactions
• FAS 115 provides that changes in market value of AFS securities flow directly to equity (and not net income) unless impairment is other than temporary
− Other than temporary impairments expensed through net income
− Reversal of impairment does not flow through net income
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EITF Issue No. 03-1
• EITF 03-1 provides guidance for “other than temporary impairments” for Available for Sale (AFS) securities
− Interest rate risk and market risk must be considered− An impaired security is any security in which fair value is less
than book value− Investor must have both the intent and ability to hold security
through impairment period− 12 month threshold is indicated− Any sale of a security from AFS portfolio may raise questions
regarding intent and ability to hold− Sale of AFS security could “taint” entire AFS portfolio
• Lower of cost of market?
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When is a Derivative a Variable Interest?
• FAS 46R indicates that variable interests absorb variability• Is a plain vanilla interest rate swap a variable interest? Does it
absorb or create variability?• Four views presented
− Fair value variability (View A)− Cash flow variability (View B)− Total variability (View C)− Design of the VIE (View D)
• Industry groups have presented other alternative views− Comprehensive economic analysis concludes that plain vanilla
derivatives both create and absorb variability and are not variable interests
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Current Status
• Initial discussion in June 2004 was inconclusive
• Conclusion that plain vanilla derivatives are not variable interests will enhance ability to implement FIN 46R consistently
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FIN 46R Continuing Issues
• What is a variable interest?− EITF 04-7 will provide guidance on derivatives
• How do you allocate expected losses and expected residual returns among different investors?
• Do general recourse liabilities used to finance assets eliminate silos?
• Many other implementation issues remain.
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Expected Loss Notes
• Asset-backed commercial paper conduits have issued “expected loss notes” that do not require sponsor to consolidate conduit
− Sized at amount of expected losses, typically less than 0.10% of the assets of the conduit due to high quality of assets
− Yield on ELN is approximately 15% to 20%, but adds little incremental cost due to size
− ELN investor bears losses on assets owned by conduit
• Issues remain− Does exposure of ELN to loss end when asset is removed?− Modeling issues− SEC is discussing structure with at least two banks
• Solution most applicable to VIEs with high quality assets and low losses
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“Joint Venture” VIE
• “Joint venture” solution relies on narrow definition for “silos”
• Multiple sellers sell assets to VIE− No seller sells 50% or more of the total assets− Assets should be comparable to improve marketability− VIE issues senior notes that are backed by all of the assets− Each seller receives a subordinate interest issued by the VIE that is
backed by only the assets that seller has sold− No seller takes on risk associated with other sellers’ assets− Each seller has a variable interest in only the assets it sold and does
not have a variable interest in the VIE as a whole
• Structure requires partners with similar assets and objectives− Increases complexity
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