KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Pagaya AI Debt Trust 2023-5

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA assigns ratings to five classes of notes issued by Pagaya AI Debt Trust 2023-5 (“PAID 2023-5”), a consumer loan ABS transaction. PAID 2023-5 has initial credit enhancement levels of 57.70% for the Class A notes to 7.95% for the Class E notes. Credit enhancement is comprised of overcollateralization, subordination of junior note classes, a cash reserve account, and excess spread.

PAID 2023-5 will issue six classes of notes totaling $594 million with KBRA rating the Class A through Class E notes totaling $555.3 million. KBRA is not providing ratings on the Class F notes. PAID 2023-5 is a fully prefunded transaction where there is no collateral funded at closing. During the three-month prefunding period, the amounts on deposit in the prefunding account will be used to purchase unsecured consumer loans, subject to eligibility criteria and concentration limits, from various MPL platforms.

Pagaya Structured Products LLC, the sponsor and administrator, is a 100% owned subsidiary of Pagaya US Holding Company LLC, which is a 100% owned subsidiary of Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (“Pagaya Technologies”), an Israeli corporation. Pagaya Technologies is a financial technology company in the lending marketplace that uses machine learning, big data analytics, and AI-driven credit and analysis technology. This transaction is the eighth publicly rated securitization sponsored by Pagaya Structured Products LLC.

KBRA applied its Consumer Loan ABS Global Rating Methodology, as well as its Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology and ESG Global Rating Methodology as part of its analysis of the transaction’s proposed capital structure and Pagaya’s historical gross loss data. KBRA considered its operational reviews of Pagaya and each of the Platform Sellers, as well as periodic update calls with the Company and Platform Sellers. KBRA has conducted surveillance on each platform’s recent securitizations. Operative agreements and legal opinions will be reviewed prior to closing.

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Related Publications

• Consumer Loan ABS Global Rating Methodology
• Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology
• ESG Global Rating Methodology

Disclosures
Further information on key credit considerations, sensitivity analyses that consider what factors can affect these credit ratings and how they could lead to an upgrade or a downgrade, and ESG factors (where they are a key driver behind the change to the credit rating or rating outlook) can be found in the full rating report referenced above.

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