LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to five classes of notes to be issued by Canada Square Funding 2021-2 Plc (Canada Square 2021-2), a static RMBS securitisation of recently originated BTL loans. This will be the second issuance under the Canada Square series of issuances this year. The provisional portfolio aggregates £220.6 million and were originated by three UK specialist lenders – Fleet Mortgages Ltd (54.9%), Landbay Partners Ltd (29.3%), and Topaz Finance Ltd (15.8%). Canada Square 2021-1, is the fifth in the series of issuances by Citibank, N.A., London Branch with the first issuance in October 2019 (Canada Square Funding 2019-1 Plc) and most recent priori one in March 2021 (Canada Square Funding 2021-1 Plc).
Each of the three lenders are also the named servicers for their respective loans in the transaction. Computershare Loan Services would be delegate servicer for the loans originated by Topaz and Link Mortgage Services, the delegate servicer for Landbay.
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