ReadyCap Securitizes $115 Million of SBA 7(a) Unguaranteed Loans

by Bob Coleman
Editor, C-Suite Small Business Lending

ReadyCap Lending has completed the securitization and sale of $115 million of the unguaranteed interest of SBA 7(a) small business loans — the first securitization since the recession.

The loans were originated by CIT Small Business Lending Capital. ReadyCap acquired the loan portfolio when they purchased the CIT SBLC license.

Standard and Poor’s assigned a AAA rating to ReadyCap Lending’s trust notes – the highest credit rating available from the organization. The notes are collateralized by the right to receive payments and other recoveries from the unguaranteed interests of SBA 7(a) loans held by ReadyCap Lending.

According to S&P’s Pre Sale report, ReadyCap Lending Small Business Loan Trust 2015-1, approximately 85% of the loans are more than five years’ seasoned. S&P comments, “We have observed that defaults typically increase the first year after origination and remain elevated for a few years before declining in the remaining years of the loan’s life.”

Further, S&P notes, “the experience of ReadyCap Lending LLC’s management professionals, many of whom have more than 20 years of experience in the sector” contributed to the rating agency’s rationale for the assigned rating.

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