Citizen Irish Auto Receivables Trust 2017: 25 June 2017

The Issuer will make payments on the notes from payments received in respect of a portfolio of loans by which new and used passenger motorised cars and light commercial vehicles are financed. Such portfolio will be purchased by the Issuer on the Closing Date.

The seller, First Citizen, is a privately owned company primarily staffed by former employees of Permanent TSB Finance Limited. First Citizen acquired the entire Permanent TSB Finance Limited operational platform. Prior to this acquisition, Permanent TSB Finance Limited had been one of the largest consumer finance companies in Ireland, with a market share of over 35%. From 1993 to 2011, Permanent TSB Finance Limited was the largest provider of car finance in Ireland, with brands including Credit Opel, Nissan Credit, Hyundai Credit, BMW Financial Services and Kia Credit. In February 2014, First Citizen began providing finance in the auto industry by way of the Receivables Agreements in the Portfolio.

Eligibility criteria (includes): the receivables must be denominated in and be payable in euro; the receivables must relate to the relevant Receivables Agreements consisting of consumer and non-consumer hire purchase contracts, acquisition leases, contract hire and hire drive contracts; each Receivables Agreement must only relate to one Financed Object other than Purchased Receivables which are hire drive contracts; no rental instalment is more than 90 days overdue as at the Closing Date; each Receivables Agreement bears interest calculated at a fixed rate; the relevant Obligor in relation to each Purchased Receivable must not be the subject of a bankruptcy, examinership or insolvency proceeding; at least one instalment has been paid by the relevant Obligor.

The portfolio consists of 12,921 loans, all via a monthly payment contract, where the average loan balance is Eur12,223. Product type (by number of loans / current balance): Consumer Hire Purchase 10,000 / 73.41%; Non Consumer Hire Purchase 2,342 / 21.61%; Non Consumer Contract Hire 369 / 3.30%; and Non Consumer Lease 210 / 1.67%. The WA LTV is 72.81% and the WA Loan Age of the Portfolio is 12 months.


CRR 405: First Citizen Finance DAC (the Retention Holder) will retain on an ongoing basis a material net economic interest in the transaction which shall in any event not be less than 5% of the nominal value of the securitised exposures, in accordance with Article 405(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. As at the Closing Date, such interest will be comprised of exposure to an interest in the first loss tranche, namely the Class E Notes.

Volcker Rule: The Issuer is not and, solely after giving effect to any offering and sale of the Notes and the application of the proceeds thereof, will not be a "covered fund" for purposes of regulations adopted under Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.