ABS Premium

Across the Consumer and Commercial ABS markets, KBRA Premium delivers the data and analysis you need to evaluate deals, track performance, and stay ahead of the market.

Rating Publications

Pre-Sale/New Issue Reports

Our Pre-Sale and New Issue reports deliver forward-looking credit analysis that help market participants evaluate new transactions with confidence.
These reports provide in-depth insight into deal structure, collateral quality, and key credit considerations.

Surveillance Reports

Timely reviews to validate rating alignment with performance and evolving conditions.

Historical Ratings

Review affirmations, upgrades, downgrades, and withdrawals to derive performance context.

KBRA Comparative Analytic Tool (KCAT)

  • Excel-based interface built to provide statistics for each individual KBRA rated ABS deal

  • Provides subsector-specific statistics for subject deal as well as selected comps to provide additional insight into collateral composition of similar deals

  • Provides high level structural overview of selected deals that vary based on deal structure

Coverage

Broad coverage across consumer, commercial and esoteric asset classes:

Consumer ABS

  • Auto

  • Credit Cards

  • Consumer Loans

  • Home Improvement

  • Insurance-Related

  • Student Loans

  • Timeshare

Commercial ABS

  • Aviation

  • Communications Infrastructure

  • Container

  • Contract Securitization

  • Corporate Fleet Lease

  • Data Centers

  • Diamond

  • Energy

  • Equipment

  • Ground Lease

  • IP Royalty

  • Litigation Finance

  • Music Royalties

  • Net Lease

  • Other Commercial

  • PACE

  • Rail Car

  • Solar

  • Whole Business Securitization

KBRA Indices

KBRA provides the market with a variety of monthly HTML index report across Structured Finance.

U.S. Auto Loan ABS

Monthly indices tracking credit performance across securitized prime and non-prime auto loan pools, weighted by collateral balance.

U.S. Equipment Loan & Lease

Tracks credit performance of securitized equipment loan and lease pools, with sub-indices for small/medium and large-ticket segments.

U.S. Solar Loan ABS Index

Measures credit performance of securitized residential solar loan pools.  Updated monthly to reflect collateral balance and deal seasoning.

European Auto ABS

Monthly indices covering auto loan and lease securitizations across Europe and the UK, with country-level performance and credit trend insights.

U.S. Marketplace Consumer Loan

Monitors performance across securitized marketplace consumer loan pools, segmented by borrower credit quality and platform trends.

U.S. RMBS Credit Indices

Tracks delinquencies, modifications, prepayments, and other metrics across prime, non-prime, and CRT securitizations to monitor U.S. RMBS performance trends.

Market Insights & Research

KBRA Premium provides timely, thematic ABS research on evolving and distressed consumer and commercial asset classes, complemented by market insights and comprehensive conference recaps.

Annual Sector Outlooks

Industry outlook, year in review, performance themes, trends, and forecasts generally published annually or semiannually.

Rating Stability & Transition Studies

Analyzes the consistency and evolution of KBRA’s credit ratings over time. These studies track upgrades, downgrades, affirmations, and withdrawals across sectors—helping market participants assess rating performance, transition trends, and long-term credit stability.

Conference Recaps

KBRA attends and participates in numerous industry conferences and events. Our recaps of these events are an industry must-read.

KBRA Portfolios

Platform Capabilities

A centralized, intuitive dashboard for tracking KBRA credit ratings and analytics across your portfolio or sectors of coverage:

  • Upload your list of securities and issuers in seconds

  • Configure an Excel-style grid—toggle metrics, view ratings and structural features

  • Filter, sort, and slice across entity, sectors, or timeframes

  • Receive real-time notifications on your portfolio

KBRA Alerts

Receive timely updates from your coverage areas so you don’t miss anything:

  • One-click subscriptions to ratings and research alerts

  • Custom filters and views across sectors and names

  • Alerts delivered via email and your notification dashboard

Request a Consultation (ABS)

Ready to explore how KBRA Premium can bolster your credit insights and decisions? Whether you’d like a demo, pricing, or tailored support, our team is here to help.