OREANDA-NEWS. Fitch Ratings has affirmed Wood Street CLO V B.V. and revised the Outlook to Stable on the class E notes, as follows:

Class A-D: affirmed at 'AAAsf'; Outlook Stable
Class A-R: affirmed at 'AAAsf'; Outlook Stable
Class A-T: affirmed at 'AAAsf'; Outlook Stable
Class A-2: affirmed at 'AAsf'; Outlook Stable
Class B: affirmed at 'Asf'; Outlook Stable
Class C-1: affirmed at 'BBBsf'; Outlook Stable
Class C-2: affirmed at 'BBBsf'; Outlook Stable
Class D: affirmed at 'BBsf'; Outlook Stable
Class E-1: affirmed at 'B-sf'; Outlook revised to Stable from Negative
Class E-2: affirmed at 'B-sf'; Outlook revised to Stable from Negative

Wood Street CLO V is a securitisation of mainly European senior secured loans with a total note issuance of EUR500m invested in a target portfolio of EUR480m. The portfolio is actively managed by Alcentra Limited.

KEY RATING DRIVERS
The affirmation and revised Outlook reflects increased credit enhancement and stable asset performance. Credit enhancement available to the rated notes has increased significantly over the past 12 months due to the deleveraging of the transaction following the end of the reinvestment period. The senior notes have paid down by EUR62.17m and GBP16.87m over the past year.

The Fitch weighted average rating factor, as calculated by the trustee, has increased to 29.26 from 28.87 over the past year and the Fitch weighted average recovery rate has increased to 63.9 from 63.3. In the same period the weighted average spread (WAS) of the portfolio fell to 3.96% from 4.14%. All these metrics continue to maintain a significant cushion against the covenanted levels.

There are currently no defaulted assets in the portfolio and 'CCC' obligations represent approximatively EUR41.2m, up from EUR37.8m a year ago. As of November 2015 trustee report, all the coverage tests are passing with a cushion.

The portfolio is currently failing weighted average maturity (WAM) test with a WAM of May 2020, versus September 2019 a year ago and a covenanted maximum WAM of September 2018. The weighted average life (WAL), as calculated by Fitch, decreased slightly over the past year to 4.5 years from 4.8 years.

The class A-R notes are variable funding notes, but, since the end of the reinvestment period, no additional advances of euro or sterling are possible. As of the November 2015 trustee report, the outstanding amount of the class A-R notes is GBP40.89m and EUR9.5m. There is currently GBP35m of revolver hedged assets and GBP7m is held in the principal account. As a consequence, there is currently a mismatch of approximatively GBP1.1m between the GBP assets and the GBP liabilities.

Fitch has found that the transactions can withstand the various combinations of interest rate and currency stresses overlaid with default skews between sterling and euro assets at proposed rating stress levels.

RATING SENSITIVITIES
In its rating sensitivity analysis, Fitch found that a 25% increase of the default probability would result in downgrade of two notches for the senior and mezzanine notes while the junior notes would be unaffected. A 25% reduction of the recovery rate would result in a downgrade of up to two notches across all notes apart from the class D notes, which would be unaffected.

DATA ADEQUACY
Fitch has checked the consistency and plausibility of the information it has received about the performance of the asset pool and the transaction. There were no findings that were material to this analysis. Fitch has not reviewed the results of any third party assessment of the asset portfolio information or conducted a review of origination files as part of its ongoing monitoring.

The majority of the underlying assets have ratings or credit opinions from Fitch and/or other Nationally Recognised Statistical Rating Organisations and/or European Securities and Markets Authority registered rating agencies. Fitch has relied on the practices of the relevant Fitch groups and/or other rating agencies to assess the asset portfolio information.

Overall, Fitch's assessment of the information relied upon for the agency's rating analysis according to its applicable rating methodologies indicates that it is adequately reliable.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
The information below was used in the analysis.
-Loan-by-loan data provided by BNY Mellon as at 2 November 2015
-Transaction reporting provided by BNY Mellon as at 2 November 2015