AmeriCredit Announces $1.6 Billion Asset-Backed Securitization
FORT WORTH, Texas--Sept. 5, 2001--AMERICREDIT CORP. announced today the pricing of a $1.6 billion offering of automobile receivables-backed securities through Credit Suisse First Boston, Banc of America Securities LLC, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, and Merrill Lynch & Co.The securities will be issued via an owner trust, AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2001-C, in four classes of Notes:
Note Class Amount Average Life Price Interest Rate ---------- ------ ------------ ----- ------------- A-1 $230,000,000 0.31 years 100.0000 4 mo. LIBOR - 0.04% A-2 395,000,000 0.81 years 99.9942 EDSF + 0.14% A-3 525,000,000 1.89 years 100.0000 1 mo. LIBOR + 0.15% A-4 450,000,000 3.37 years 99.9767 Swaps + 0.24% ----------- $1,600,000,000 ==============
The weighted average coupon paid by AmeriCredit is 4.6%.
The Class A-1 Notes will be rated A-1 by Standard & Poor's, Prime -1 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and F-1 by Fitch, Inc. Notes in classes A-2 through A-4 will be rated AAA by Standard & Poor's, Aaa by Moody's and AAA by Fitch. Timely principal and interest payments on the Notes are guaranteed by an insurance policy provided by Financial Security Assurance Inc.
The transaction represents AmeriCredit Corp.'s twenty-eighth securitization of automobile receivables in which a total of over $18.4 billion of automobile receivables-backed securities have been issued.