UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
| x | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
| For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018 |
| ¨ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from __________________________ to ___________________________
Commission File Number of Issuing Entity 333-185213-08
Central Index Key Number of Issuing Entity 0001651898
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2015-C
(Exact Name of Issuing Entity as Specified in its Charter)
Commission File Number of Depositor 333-185213
Central Index Key Number of Depositor 0001260125
Hyundai ABS Funding, LLC
(Exact Name of Depositor as Specified in its Charter)
Central Index Key Number of Sponsor 0001541028
Hyundai Capital America
(Exact Name of Sponsor as Specified in its Charter)
| Delaware | 33-0978453 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation of the Registrant) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No. of the Registrant) |
| c/o 3161 Michelson Drive, Irvine, California | 92612 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices of Registrant) | (Zip Code of Registrant) |
| (949) 732-2697 |
| (Registrant’s telephone number including area code) |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Name of each exchange on which registered | |
| None | None |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:None.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ¨ Yesx No
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. ¨ Yesx No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.x Yes¨ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).x Yes¨ No
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.x
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emergency growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
| Large Accelerated filer ¨ | Accelerated filer¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer x | Smaller reporting company¨ |
| Emerging Growth Company: ¨ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).¨ Yesx No
State the aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter.Not applicable.
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.Not applicable.
Documents incorporated by reference
List hereunder the following documents if incorporated by reference and the Part of the Form 10-K (e.g., Part I, Part II, etc.) into which the document is incorporated: (1) Any annual report to security holders; (2) Any proxy or information statement; and (3) Any prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (c) under the Securities Act of 1933. The listed documents should be clearly described for identification purposes (e.g., annual report to security holders for fiscal year ended December 24, 1980).None.
PART I
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K:
| (A) | Item 1. Business |
| (B) | Item 1A. Risk Factors |
| (C) | Item 2. Properties |
| (D) | Item 3. Legal Proceedings |
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
PART II
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K.
| (A) | Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities. |
| (B) | Item 6. Selected Financial Data. |
| (C) | Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. |
| (D) | Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. |
| (E) | Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. |
| (F) | Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. |
| (G) | Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. |
| Item 9B. | Other Information. |
None.
PART III
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K.
| (A) | Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. |
| (B) | Item 11. Executive Compensation. |
| (C) | Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. |
| (D) | Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. |
| (E) | Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services. |
SUBSTITUTE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(2) TO FORM 10-K:
Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB. Significant obligors of pool assets (Financial Information):
Not applicable.
Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB. Credit Enhancement and Other Support, Except for Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Not applicable.
Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB. Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Not applicable.
Item 1117 of Regulation AB. Legal Proceedings.
The Indenture Trustee is Citibank, N.A., a national banking association and wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., a Delaware corporation. Citibank, N.A. performs as Indenture Trustee through the Agency and Trust line of business, a part of Issuer Services. Citibank, N.A. has primary corporate trust offices located in both New York and London. Citibank, N.A. is a leading provider of corporate trust services offering a full range of agency, fiduciary, tender and exchange, depositary and escrow services. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, Citibank’s Agency and Trust group manages in excess of $5.8 trillion in fixed income and equity investments on behalf of over 2,700 corporations worldwide. Since 1987, Citibank Agency and Trust has provided corporate trust services for asset-backed securities containing pool assets consisting of airplane leases, auto loans and leases, boat loans, commercial loans, commodities, credit cards, durable goods, equipment leases, foreign securities, funding agreement backed note programs, truck loans, utilities, student loans and commercial and residential mortgages. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, Citibank, N.A. acts as indenture trustee and/or paying agent for approximately 212 various asset backed trusts supported by either auto loans or leases or equipment loans or leases.
Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”) is acting as Indenture Trustee of these ABS transactions. In the ordinary course of business, Citibank is involved in a number of legal proceedings, including in connection with its role as trustee of certain RMBS transactions. Certain of these Citibank as trustee-related matters are disclosed herein.
On June 18, 2014, a civil action was filed against Citibank in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by a group of investors in 48 private-label RMBS trusts for which Citibank allegedly serves or did serve as trustee, asserting claims for purported violations of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Trust Indenture Act”), breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence based on Citibank’s alleged failure to perform its duties as trustee for the 48 RMBS trusts. On November 24, 2014, plaintiffs sought leave to withdraw this action. On the same day, a smaller subset of similar plaintiff investors in 27 private-label RMBS trusts for which Citibank allegedly serves or did serve as trustee, filed a new civil action against Citibank in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting similar claims as the prior action filed in state court. In January 2015, the court closed plaintiffs’ original state court action. On September 8, 2015, the federal court dismissed all claims as to 24 of the 27 trusts and allowed certain of the claims to proceed as to the other three trusts. Subsequently, plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed all claims with respect to two of the three trusts. On April 7, 2017, Citibank filed a motion for summary judgment. Plaintiffs filed its consolidated opposition brief and cross motion for partial summary judgment on May 22, 2017. Briefing on those motions was completed on August 4, 2017. On March 22, 2018, the court granted Citibank’s motion for summary judgment in its entirety, denied Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and ordered the clerk to close the case. On April 20, 2018, plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal. Plaintiffs’ opening brief was filed on August 3, 2018. Citibank filed its opposition on November 2, 2018. Plaintiffs filed their reply on November 16, 2018.
On November 24, 2015, the same investors that brought the federal case brought a new civil action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York related to 25 private-label RMBS trusts for which Citibank allegedly serves or did serve as trustee. This case includes the 24 trusts previously dismissed in the federal action, and one additional trust. The investors assert claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty to avoid conflicts of interest, and violation of New York’s Streit Act (the “Streit Act”). Following oral argument on Citibank’s motion to dismiss, Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on August 5, 2016. On June 27, 2017, the state court issued a decision, dismissing the Event of Default claims, mortgage-file-related claims, the fiduciary duty claims, and the conflict of interest claims. The decision sustained certain breach of contract claims including the claim alleging discovery of breaches of representations and warranties, a claim related to robo-signing, and the implied covenant of good faith claim. Citibank appealed the lower court’s decision, and on January 16, 2018, the Appellate Division, First Department, dismissed the claims related to robo-signing and the implied covenant of good faith, but allowed plaintiffs’ claim alleging discovery of breaches of representations and warranties to proceed.
On August 19, 2015, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) as Receiver for a failed financial institution filed a civil action against Citibank in the Southern District of New York. This action relates to one private-label RMBS trust for which Citibank formerly served as trustee. FDIC asserts claims for breach of contract, violation of the Streit Act, and violation of the Trust Indenture Act. Citibank jointly briefed a motion to dismiss with The Bank of New York Mellon and U.S. Bank, N.A., entities that have also been sued by FDIC in their capacity as trustee, and these cases have all been consolidated in front of Judge Carter. On September 30, 2016, the Court granted Citibank’s motion to dismiss the complaint without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. On October 14, 2016, FDIC filed a motion for reargument or relief from judgment from the Court’s dismissal order. On July 11, 2017, Judge Carter ruled on the motion for reconsideration regarding his dismissal of the action. He denied reconsideration of his decision on standing, but granted leave to amend the complaint by October 9, 2017. The FDIC subsequently requested an extension of time to file its amended complaint, which was granted. The FDIC filed its amended complaint on December 8, 2017. Defendants jointly filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint on March 13, 2018. On April 18, 2018, plaintiff filed its opposition. Defendants filed their joint reply on May 3, 2018.
There can be no assurances as to the outcome of litigation or the possible impact of litigation on the trustee or the RMBS trusts. However, Citibank denies liability and continues to vigorously defend against these litigations. Furthermore, neither the above-disclosed litigations nor any other pending legal proceeding involving Citibank will materially affect Citibank’s ability to perform its duties as Indenture Trustee under the Sale and Servicing Agreements for these ABS transactions.
No other legal proceedings are pending, and no legal proceedings are known to be contemplated by governmental authorities, against any of Hyundai Capital America (the “Sponsor” and “Servicer”), Hyundai ABS Funding, LLC (the “Depositor”), Citibank, N.A. (the “Indenture Trustee”) or Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2015-C (the “Issuing Entity”), or of which any property of the foregoing is the subject, that are material to holders of the asset-backed notes or the certificates.
Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Affiliations and Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
Information contemplated by Item 1119 of Regulation AB has been omitted from this report on Form 10-K in reliance on Instruction to Item 1119 of Regulation AB.
Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria
The Servicer and the Indenture Trustee (together, the “Servicing Parties”) have each been identified by the registrant as parties participating in the servicing function with respect to the asset pool held by the Issuing Entity. Each of the Servicing Parties has completed a report on an assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to it (each, a “Servicing Report”), which Servicing Reports are attached as exhibits to this Form 10-K. In addition, each of the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee has provided an attestation report (each, an “Attestation Report”) by one or more independent registered public accounting firms, which reports are also attached as exhibits to this Form 10-K. None of the Servicing Reports prepared by any of the Servicing Parties, and none of the related Attestation Reports, has identified any material instance of noncompliance with the servicing criteria applicable to the respective Servicing Party.
Item 1123 of Regulation AB. Servicer Compliance Statement.
The Servicer has been identified by the registrant as a servicer with respect to the asset pool held by the Issuing Entity. The Servicer has completed a statement of compliance with applicable servicing agreement (a “Compliance Statement”) signed by an authorized officer of the Servicer. The Compliance Statement is attached as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.
(a) List of Documents Filed as Part of this Report
(1) Not applicable.
(2) Not applicable.
(3) The exhibits filed in response to Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in the Exhibit Index.
(b) The exhibits filed in response to Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in the Exhibit Index.
(c) Not applicable.
Item 16. Form 10–K Summary.
Not applicable.
Supplemental information to be furnished with Reports Filed
Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act by Registrants which have not
Registered Securities Pursuant to Section 12 of the Act.
No annual report, proxy statement, form of proxy or other proxy soliciting material has been sent to the registrant’s securityholders, and the registrant does not presently contemplate sending any such materials subsequent to the filing of this report.
EXHIBIT INDEX
The following exhibits are filed as part of this annual report or, where indicated, were heretofore filed and are hereby incorporated by reference.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: March 20, 2019 | HYUNDAI ABS FUNDING, LLC | |
| By: | /s/ Charley Changmin Yoon | |
| Name: Charley Changmin Yoon | ||
| Title: President and Secretary | ||
| (senior officer in charge of securitization of the depositor) | ||