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Karta 2005-1

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Market Commentary

12 July 2005

12JUL2005            --- KARTA 2005-1 ---
CLASS A: E592.5M, AAA/Aaa/AAA,    4.96YRS SOFT BULLET, CPN 3ME+15BPS
CLASS B: E75M,    A+/A1/A,        4.96YRS SOFT BULLET, CPN 3ME+32BPS
CLASS C: E82.5M,  BBB/Baa2/BBB,   4.96YRS SOFT BULLET, CPN 3ME+60BPS
COMMON TERMS: IP 100, PAY 29-JUL, FRN, EFM 15-JUL-10, LFM 15-JUL-2012,
     JOINT LEADS DEUTSCHE, MERRILL LYNCH, EFG TELESIAS (NO BOOKS).
                      --- DEAL INFO ---
   Karta is the first ever credit card ABS from Greece. Almost as importantly it
is the fist European credit card deal of 2005 (Barclaycard's US$1.5bn
Gracechurch global excepted) and investors are starved of this asset class. MBNA
has just been bought by Bank of America, and may in future reduce its ABS
issuance, while the UK's Egg remains for sale, so volumes may remain low.
   This makes for a healthy backdrop for Karta, which comes on behalf of EFG
Eurobank, the third largest bank in Greece. Eurobank is the originator for the
Themeleion rmbs issues, the second of which came last month. Themeleion-1, from
Jun-04, is performing well. While Greek credit cards are entirely new, there
should be reasonable investor familiarity with EFG Eurobank and growing
confidence in its securitisation track record. The bank meanwhile is the largest
card issuer in Greece with around 1/3 of the total market.
   Structurally Karta looks much like many other European credit card deals. A
E1bn portfolio supports the E750m Karta notes as well as a seller's interest.
The portfolio revolves for 3.5yrs, after which principal receipts accumulate in
order to repay the notes at the 4.96yr soft-bullet date.
   Investors will obviously want to look at the Greek credit card market and the
past performance of EFG Eurobank's accounts as well as portfolio specifics. The
most interesting aspect here is that the average payment rate on the portfolio
is only around 10pc (and falling), much lower than the norm for, say, the UK
where MBNA has a payment rate of 16-17pc. Partly this reflects EFG's reduction
in the minimum monthly payment from 5pc to 2pc. However, this obviously slows
down the speed at which the portfolio revolves - one of the basic attractions of
credit card paper for ABS investors.
   Credit enhancement levels reflect this factor among others (Karta's triple A
notes have 21pc subordination, against 10pc for this year's Gracechurch), while
the low level of consumer debt in Greece, which is essentially a good thing,
means that card use is growing from a lowish base and credit card debt is
expanding structurally. Credit cards seem to be used more for borrowing, rather
than as a convenient payment method as is the case in more mature markets such
as the UK. This is another contributor to the low payment rate.
   The Karta portfolio consists of accounts where EFG has targeted 30-55 year
olds with a better than average financial profile. There is decent average
seasoning of 3 years and around half of the cardholders are existing customers
of the bank. Only 21pc pay by monthly direct debit - the best performance in
credit card ABS is seen in pools such as Egg's Pillar deals, where all
cardholders must pay by direct debit. Nonetheless charge-offs have been steady
at between 4 and 5pc, above the 3.5pc level on MBNA (UK), but comparable with
Gracechurch's 4.6pc.
   Not all investors are yet open to Greek collateral, but this has not impeded
a very strong reception for Karta. Given that this is the first ever deal of its
type, and that nothing similar has emerged from Europe since 2004, there are no
meaningful price comparisons. Initial price guidance for the deal, however,
proved conservative at +17a/mid-30s/mid-60s. Yesterday all these levels were
revised tighter, to 15-16/32-35/60-65. Final pricing has come in at the tight
end of the new levels on all tranches. The Class A notes are understood to have
been 3.7x covered, while the B and C notes were >2x covered, suggesting that the
leads decided not to sacrifice a balanced book for even tighter spreads on a
debut issue.

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