DBRS Morningstar Finalizes Provisional Ratings on Navient Private Education Refi Loan Trust 2020-B

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS Morningstar) finalized its provisional ratings on the following classes of notes (the Notes) issued by Navient Private Education Refi Loan Trust 2020-B (Navient 2020-B):

-- $325,000,000 Class A-1 Notes rated AAA (sf)
-- $342,700,000 Class A-2 Notes rated AAA (sf)
-- $44,200,000 Class B Notes rated AA (sf)

The ratings are based on a review by DBRS Morningstar of the following analytical considerations:

-- Transaction capital structure, respective ratings, and form and sufficiency of available credit enhancement.
-- The ability of the transaction to withstand stressed cash flow assumptions and repay investors in accordance with the terms of the Navient 2020-B transaction documents.
-- The sequential-pay structure.
-- Structural features of the transaction that require the Class A Notes to enter into full turbo principal amortization under certain circumstances.
-- The quality and credit characteristics of the student loans and underlying borrowers.
-- The ability of Navient Solutions, LLC (Navient) as servicer and Earnest Operations LLC (Earnest) as subservicer to perform collections on the collateral pool and other required activities.
-- The legal structure and legal opinions that address the true sale of the student loans, the non-consolidation of the trust, that the trust has a valid first-priority security interest in the assets, and the consistency with the DBRS Morningstar “Legal Criteria for U.S. Structured Finance.”

The collateral backing the Notes consists of fixed-rate student loan refinancings that were originated by Earnest. Earnest, which was acquired by Navient in November 2017, is an online lending platform primarily focused on offering student loans throughout the United States.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodology is Rating U.S. Private Student Loan Securitizations, which can be found on dbrs.com under Methodologies & Criteria.

The rated entity or its related entities did participate in the rating process for this rating action. DBRS Morningstar had access to the accounts and other relevant internal documents of the rated entity or its related entities in connection with this rating action.

Please see the related appendix for additional information regarding the sensitivity of assumptions used in the rating process.

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