Credit Acceptance Corporation announced the completion of a $385.0 million asset-backed non-recourse secured financing (the “Financing”). Pursuant to this transaction, we contributed loans having a net book value of approximately $481.4 million to a wholly-owned special purpose entity that will pledge the loans to institutional lenders under a loan and security agreement.

The Financing will:

• bear interest at one-month LIBOR plus 195 basis points;
• revolve for 24 months after which it will amortize based upon the cash flows on the contributed loans; and
• be used by us to repay outstanding indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.

Credit Acceptance will receive 6.0% of the cash flows related to the underlying consumer loans to cover servicing expenses. The remaining 94.0%, less amounts due to dealers for payments of dealer holdback, will be used to pay principal and interest to the institutional lenders as well as the ongoing costs of the Financing. The Financing is structured so as not to affect our contractual relationships with our dealers and to preserve the dealers’ rights to future payments of dealer holdback.

Since 1972, Credit Acceptance has offered automobile dealers financing programs that enable them to sell vehicles to consumers, regardless of their credit history. Financing programs are offered through a nationwide network of automobile dealers who benefit from sales of vehicles to consumers who otherwise could not obtain financing; from repeat and referral sales generated by these same customers; and from sales to customers responding to advertisements for our product, but who actually end up qualifying for traditional financing.