medium · Asset-Backed Securities waterfalls
A credit card ABS series has an early amortization trigger tied to a three-month rolling average excess spread of 0.0%. Monthly excess spread results for the last three months were 5.8%, -4.2%, and -2.2%.
Does the series enter early amortization?
- No, because the trigger only activates after four consecutive negative months.
- Yes, because the average is -0.2%.
- No, because the average is 0.1%.
- Yes, because the single month of -4.2% breached the threshold.
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