Agos successfully reopens the European securitization market with the new SRT transaction Sunrise 2026-1, confirming over twenty years of investor confidence
Milan, 25 March 2026 – Leading consumer credit company Agos (61% owned by Crédit Agricole through Crédit Agricole Personal Finance & Mobility, and 39% by Banco BPM) has successfully completed Sunrise 2026-1, the 29th transaction under the Sunrise Program and the second transaction with a significant risk transfer (SRT) completed by the company.
The transaction involves a highly granular portfolio of performing consumer loans originated by Agos, representative of the company’s position among the leading players in the Italian consumer credit market.
The transaction was structured through the issuance of various classes of asset-backed securities for a total amount of approximately €1.2 billion.
The transaction involved the issuance of the following classes of notes :
The mezzanine tranches were offered to the market under the SRT structure, while a significant portion of the senior tranche was retained by the originator.
The placement attracted total investor orders of approximately €1.4 billion, with broad and diversified participation from European institutional investors.
The Class A senior tranche, for which the amount offered to the market was increased from €400 million to approximately €560 million, recorded coverage of approximately 1.5x compared to the offering.
The mezzanine tranches showed significantly higher levels of demand, with book coverage ranging from approximately 3x to over 5x, allowing for an improvement in pricing compared to initial guidance.
Overall, the transaction involved approximately 40 investors.
The distribution of investors showed strong geographic diversification:
By investor type participation was primarily composed of :
A Sign of Resilience in the European ABS Market
The placement was completed less than two days after the book opened, amid high volatility in international financial markets following geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
In this environment, the European securitization market demonstrated significant resilience compared to other capital market segments, reopening quickly after a brief hiatus and allowing new transactions to successfully access the primary market.
The success of Sunrise 2026-1 also confirms investors’ consolidated trust in Agos’s securitization platform, built over more than twenty years of continuous presence in the European ABS market.
Crédit Agricole CIB and Banca Akros acted as Arrangers.
Crédit Agricole CIB, Banca Akros, BBVA, and Intesa Sanpaolo acted as Joint Lead Managers.
Allen & Overy Shearman acted as legal advisor for the transaction, while Studio Legale Associato Legance assisted Agos as legal advisor.
This transaction allows Agos, in addition to strengthening its funding, to generate RWA savings of approximately €780 million
Agos Profile
Agos is a leading finance company in personal, consumer and mobility credit – present in Italy for over 35 years – 61% owned by Crédit Agricole through Crédit Agricole Personal Finance and Mobility and 39% by Banco BPM. Agos has a universal, omnichannel business model that places relationships at the heart of its recognized value towards customers, collaborators, and territories. With more than 230 branches and agencies and about 2,000 employees, Agos accompanies customers in the realisation of projects at different moments of their lives and supports partners in different markets with omnichannel services and solutions such as personal loans, finalised loans, credit cards, fifth salary transfer, leasing, renting and a wide range of insurance services. Innovation is for Agos a way to make the company dialogue with the external context in the sign of quality, efficiency and simplification. Agos is strongly committed to a path of environmental, social and economic sustainability with the desire to be and be recognised as a company that carries out its activities with respect for people, territories and the environment, concretely in everyday life as well as in major transformations.
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