DBRS Confirms Bay Street Funding Trust and King Street Funding Trust Notes at R-1 (high) (sf)

DBRS Limited (DBRS) has today confirmed the Short-Term ABN, Series 1, Class A Notes of Bay Street Funding Trust (Bay Street) and the Asset-Backed CP Promissory Notes of King Street Funding Trust (King Street, and together with Bay Street, the Trusts) at R-1 (high) (sf). The rating confirmation is pursuant to the inclusion of a new transaction (Transaction 54) on April 25, 2016.

As part of DBRS’s ongoing efforts to increase the transparency of reporting on asset-backed commercial paper conduit activity, DBRS has also released a Transaction Summary report providing details of Transaction 54, which is secured by a loan secured by a security interest in a portfolio of retail auto loan receivable contracts and related rights (the Portfolio of Loans). The Portfolio of Loans includes primarily new and some used passenger cars, crossover vehicles, sport-utility vehicles and light trucks originated by a captive auto finance company operating in Canada.

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The related regulatory disclosures pursuant to the National Instrument 25-101 Designated Rating Organizations are hereby incorporated by reference and can be found by clicking on the link to the right under Related Research or by contacting us at info@dbrs.com.

The applicable methodologies are Rating Canadian Auto Retail Loan and Lease Securitizations, Rating Canadian ABCP and Related Enhancement Features, Legal Criteria for Canadian Structured Finance and Derivatives Criteria for Canadian Structured Finance, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

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