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  Title	Moody's Ratings assigns provisional ratings to AURORA Series2502, credit card receivables ABS
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  Published Date	Jan. 29, 2025, 6:21 a.m.
  Summary	Tokyo, January 28, 2025 -- Moody's Ratings (Moody's) has assigned provisional ratings to the following transaction. The complete rating action is as follows: Transaction Name: AURORA Series2502 Class
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  Content	Tokyo, January 28, 2025 -- Moody's Ratings (Moody's) has assigned provisional ratings to the following transaction. The complete rating action is as follows: Transaction Name: AURORA Series2502 Class, Scheduled Dividend/Interest Rate, Rating Series2502 Beneficial Interests, Fixed, (P)Aaa (sf) Series2502 Trust ABL, Fixed, (P)Aaa (sf) Total Issue Amount: JPY8.0 billion Closing Date: February 27, 2025 Final Maturity Date: January 30, 2032 Underlying Asset: Credit card receivables (cash advance receivables and card purchase receivables) Total Amount of Receivables (Principal Amount): JPY66,852,166,651 Arranger: Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. RATINGS RATIONALE The seller, being both originator and initial servicer, entrusts a pool of eligible credit card receivables and cash to the asset trustee, who then issues the Series2502 Beneficial Interests ("Series Beneficial Interests"), the Subordinated Beneficial Interests, the Seller's Beneficial Interests and the Reserve Beneficial Interests. Entrustment of the receivables is perfected against third parties under the Perfection Law. Perfection against obligors is not made unless certain events occur. The asset trustee receives a limited recourse loan (Series2502 Trust ABL, hereafter "Series Trust ABL") from the investors. The funds are used to redeem a part of the Series Beneficial Interests. The rest of Series Beneficial Interests is transferred to the investors. The transfer is perfected against the relevant obligors and third parties under Article 94 of Japan's Trust Law. The Series Beneficial Interests and the Series Trust ABL are structured pari-passu in the principal and dividend/interest waterfall under the trust agreement. The seller holds the Subordinated Beneficial Interests, the Seller's Beneficial Interests and the Reserve Beneficial Interests. Credit enhancement is provided by the senior/subordinated structure and available excess spread. Subordination comprises approximately 17.6% of the initial principal balance of the Series Beneficial Interests, the Series Trust ABL and the Subordinated Beneficial Interests at the closing date. The Series Beneficial Interests and the Series Trust ABL are redeemed in a monthly, scheduled amortization. If the Subordinated Beneficial Interests amount exceeds the required amount and certain conditions are met, then the "excessive" portion can be transferred to the seller's portion. Defaulted receivables in the underlying pool are used as payment in kind for dividends on the Subordinated Beneficial Interests, while cash in an amount equivalent to the principal balance of the defaulted receivables is transferred from the interest collection account to the principal collection account. Additional enhancement is built up in accordance with the deterioration in the performance of the pool through a dynamic reserve mechanism. If any early amortization events occur, the dividend waterfall to the Subordinated Beneficial Interests in the series is suspended, and the excess spread is used to redeem the Series Beneficial Interests and the Series Trust ABL. Key early amortization events include the default rate exceeding its trigger level. If any servicer replacement events occur, the asset trustee can dismiss the servicer and have a back-up servicer take over the servicing operations. A back-up servicer is appointed at closing. In preparation for servicer replacement, liquidity is provided in the form of a cash reserve at closing. This reserve covers the dividend payments on the Series Beneficial Interests, the interest payments on the Series Trust ABL, trust fees, and fees relating to start back-up servicer operations, etc. Commingling risk is covered by the Seller's Beneficial Interests and advance payment of collections. The ratings are based mainly on the credit quality of the receivables, the transaction structure, and the servicer's experience. We estimated the annualized expected default rate ("charge-off rate") of the underlying assets at 4.3%, after taking into consideration receivable attributes, historical data on the seller's entire pool, performance data on existing securitization pools, and industry trends. We also assume principal payment rate of approximately 2.8% and portfolio yield rate of approximately 13.8% at the start of early amortization under the stress scenario. (These parameters are based on our definition for analytical purposes, and thus may not be comparable to other data). Moody's Aaa LGSD for the transaction is 17.6%. Aaa LGSD corresponds to the maximum loss that is consistent with an Aaa (sf) rating, assuming that the sponsor has closed its cardholders'accounts. This scenario is associated with sponsors that are in or near to default. In this transaction, the available credit enhancement is no less than the Aaa LGSD at the closing. A comprehensive review of all credit ratings for the master trust has been conducted during a rating committee. No actions were taken on the tranches from the other rated series within this master trust, taking into account the updated performance information, structural features, credit enhancement and other qualitative considerations. The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Credit Card Receivables Securitizations (Japanese)" published in July 2024 and available at https://ratings.moodys.com/rmc-documents/424476. Alternatively, please see the Rating Methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology. Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings: The primary factor that could lead to a downgrade of the ratings is a worse performance of the underlying assets than we expected. We assume that, given the structure of the transaction as well as other factors, the risk of interruption to the cash flow from the assets in the event of the seller's or the asset trustee's bankruptcy is sufficiently minimized to achieve the rating assigned. We consider the seller sufficiently capable of servicing the pool, having taken into account the seller's business experience and the servicing operations. We have also conducted the sensitivity analysis below which provides the number of notches by which the model-indicated output of the deal would have varied if different assumptions had been made as to certain key model parameters. The analysis assumes that the deal has not aged. If the annualized expected charge-off rate and long-run expected charge-off rate was changed from 4.3%/8.0% to 6.5%/10.0% and 8.6%/12.0% and other assumptions remained unchanged, the model-indicated output of the rated classes would change by 0 and 1 notch respectively. The analysis results are model-indicated outputs, which are one of the many quantitative and qualitative factors considered by rating committees in determining actual ratings. This analysis does not intend to measure how the rating of the deal might migrate over time, but rather, how the initial model-indicated output of the deal might have differed if certain key model parameters had been varied. REGULATORY DISCLOSURES For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions in the disclosure form. Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions can be found on https://ratings.moodys.com/rating-definitions. In rating this transaction, Moody's uses a cash flow model to determine the collateral loss in a maximum stress scenario. As a second step, Moody's haircuts this collateral loss based on the sponsor's credit quality. Finally, Moody's compares the available credit enhancement with the haircut collateral loss, taking into account loss allocation and other structural features, to determine the model-indicated rating for each instrument. For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit support/credit substitution from another entity or entities subject to a credit rating action (the supporting entity), and whose ratings may change as a result of a credit rating action as to the supporting entity, the associated regulatory disclosures will relate to the supporting entity. Exceptions to this approach may be applicable in certain jurisdictions. For ratings issued on a program, series, category/class of debt or security, certain regulatory disclosures applicable to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series, category/class of debt, or security, or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings, in accordance with Moody's rating practices, can be found in the most recent Credit Rating Announcement related to the same class of Credit Rating. For provisional ratings, the Credit Rating Announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have affected the rating. Moody's does not always publish a separate Credit Rating Announcement for each Credit Rating assigned in the Anticipated Ratings Process or Subsequent Ratings Process. These ratings are solicited. Please refer to Moody's Policy for Designating and Assigning Unsolicited Credit Ratings available on its website https://ratings.moodys.com. Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating review. The Global Scale Credit Rating(s) discussed in this Credit Rating Announcement was(were) issued by one of Moody's affiliates outside the EU and UK and is(are) endorsed for use in the EU and UK in accordance with the EU and UK CRA Regulation. Moody's SF Japan K.K. is a registered credit rating agency under the Financial Instrument and Exchange Act but not a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization ('NRSRO'). Therefore the credit ratings assigned by Moody's SF Japan K.K. are Registered Credit Ratings to the FSA, but are not NRSRO Credit Ratings. Please see https://ratings.moodys.com for any updates on changes to the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued the rating. Please see the issuer/deal page on https://ratings.moodys.com for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating. Yusuke Minaki Vice President - Senior Analyst Yusuke Seki Associate Managing Director Releasing Office: Moody's SF Japan K.K. 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