Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)
Reg # 333-74600
Subject to completion, dated February 25, 2002
The information in this prospectus supplement is not complete and may be
changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus
supplement and the attached prospectus are not an offer to sell these securities
and they are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where
the offer or sale is not permitted.
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED JANUARY 22, 2002)
$2,024,000,000
CHASE MANHATTAN AUTO OWNER TRUST 2002-A
$1,973,400,000 ASSET BACKED NOTES
$50,600,000 ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Seller And Servicer
THE TRUST WILL ISSUE THE FOLLOWING SECURITIES:
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Class A-1 Class A-2 Class A-3 Class A-4
Notes Notes Notes Notes Certificates(1)
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Principal Amount $445,000,000 $460,000,000 $570,000,000 $498,400,000 $50,600,000
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Interest Rate % % % % %
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Final Scheduled
Payment Date March 17, 2003 October 15, 2004 March 15, 2006 September 15, 2008 September 15, 2008
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Price to Public % % % % %
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Underwriting
Discount % % % % %
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Proceeds to Seller (2) % % % % %
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(1) The trust will also issue Class R certificates to the seller. These Class R
certificates are not being offered for sale by this prospectus supplement.
(2) Before deducting expenses payable by the seller estimated to be $825,000.
The total price to public is $ .
The total underwriting discount is $ .
The total proceeds to the seller are $ .
The assets of the trust will be motor vehicle loans and related property.
The trust will pay interest and principal on the securities on the 15th day of
each month. The first payment date will be April 15, 2002.
The certificates are subordinated to the notes.
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NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE
SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES
OR DETERMINED IF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT OR THE ATTACHED PROSPECTUS
IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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Underwriter of the Notes
JPMORGAN
BEAR, STEARNS & CO. INC.
DEUTSCHE BANC ALEX. BROWN
LEHMAN BROTHERS
THE WILLIAMS CAPITAL GROUP
Underwriter of the Certificates
JPMORGAN
The date of this prospectus supplement is February , 2002.
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BEFORE YOU PURCHASE ANY OF THESE SECURITIES, BE SURE TO READ THIS PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT AND THE ATTACHED PROSPECTUS, ESPECIALLY THE RISK FACTORS BEGINNING
ON PAGE S-10 OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND ON PAGE 7 OF THE PROSPECTUS.
A security is not a deposit and neither the securities nor the underlying
motor vehicle loans are insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other
governmental authority.
These securities represent obligations of or interests in the trust only and
are not obligations of or interests in Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National
Association or any of its affiliates.
No one may use this prospectus supplement to offer and sell these securities
unless it is accompanied by the prospectus.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF TERMS .................................................... S-4
RISK FACTORS ........................................................ S-10
Holders of certificates are subject to greater
credit risks because distributions in respect
of the certificates are subordinate to
payments on the notes ...................................... S-10
You may experience prepayments and losses
on your securities after an event of default
under the indenture ........................................ S-10
Only the assets of the trust are available to
pay your securities ........................................ S-10
You may experience a greater risk of loss
on your securities as the result of
recent terrorist attacks ................................... S-10
Geographic concentration of motor vehicle
loans may result in more risk to you ....................... S-11
The absence of an existing market for the
securities may limit your ability to
resell the securities ...................................... S-11
THE TRUST ........................................................... S-11
General ........................................................ S-11
Trust Property ................................................. S-12
Capitalization of the Trust .................................... S-12
Trustee ........................................................ S-12
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS ............................................. S-13
Eligibility Criteria ........................................... S-13
Composition of the Motor Vehicle Loans ......................... S-13
Delinquency and Loan Loss Information .......................... S-17
CHASE USA ........................................................... S-19
USE OF PROCEEDS ..................................................... S-19
WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE OF THE SECURITIES ............................. S-20
Maturity and Prepayment Considerations ......................... S-20
Illustration of Effect of Prepayment of
Motor Vehicle Loans on the Life of
the Securities ............................................. S-20
THE NOTES ........................................................... S-27
General ........................................................ S-27
Payments of Interest ........................................... S-27
Payments of Principal .......................................... S-27
Prepayment ..................................................... S-29
THE CERTIFICATES .................................................... S-29
General ........................................................ S-29
Distributions of Interest ...................................... S-29
Distributions of Principal ..................................... S-29
Prepayment ..................................................... S-31
Restrictions on Foreign Ownership .............................. S-31
PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS .......................................... S-31
Source of Funds ................................................ S-31
Priority of Payments and Distributions ......................... S-31
THE TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS ............................... S-32
Trust Accounts ................................................. S-32
Servicing Compensation ......................................... S-33
Servicing Procedures ........................................... S-33
Reserve Account ................................................ S-33
Administration Agreement ....................................... S-34
MONEY MARKET ELIGIBILITY ............................................ S-34
MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES ............................ S-34
Tax Characterization of the Trust .............................. S-35
Tax Consequences to Noteholders ................................ S-36
Tax Consequences To Certificateholders ......................... S-38
STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES .............................................. S-41
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS ................................ S-41
General ........................................................ S-41
The Notes ...................................................... S-42
The Certificates ............................................... S-43
Taxation of Tax-Exempt Investors ............................... S-44
UNDERWRITING ........................................................ S-45
Note Underwriting Agreement .................................... S-45
Certificate Underwriting Agreement ............................. S-45
Proceeds to Chase USA .......................................... S-46
General ........................................................ S-46
LEGAL MATTERS ....................................................... S-47
GLOSSARY OF TERMS ................................................... S-47
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READING THESE DOCUMENTS
We provide information on the securities in two documents that offer
varying levels of detail:
o the prospectus--provides general information, some of which may not apply
to the securities.
o this prospectus supplement--provides a summary of the specific terms of
the securities.
We suggest you read this prospectus supplement and the prospectus in their
entirety. The prospectus supplement pages begin with "S". If the terms of the
securities described in this prospectus supplement vary from the attached
prospectus, you should rely on the information in this prospectus supplement.
We include cross-references to sections in these documents where you can
find further related discussions. Refer to the table of contents on page S-2 in
this document and on page i in the attached prospectus to locate the referenced
sections.
The glossary of terms on page S-47 of this prospectus supplement lists
definitions of certain terms used in this prospectus supplement and the glossary
of terms on page 51 in the prospectus lists definitions of certain terms used in
this prospectus supplement and the prospectus.
This prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus may be used by J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., an affiliate of Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National
Association and subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., in connection with offers
and sales related to market-making transactions in the securities offered by
this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. J.P. Morgan Securities
Inc. may act as principal or agent in those transactions. Such sales will be
made at prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale.
You should rely only on information on the securities provided in this
prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. We have not authorized anyone
to provide you with different information. The information in this prospectus
supplement or the attached prospectus is accurate only as of the dates on their
respective covers.
In this prospectus supplement, the terms "Chase USA," "we," "us" and "our"
refer to Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association.
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SUMMARY OF TERMS
THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY IS A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN TERMS OF THE
SECURITIES OFFERED BY THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT. FOR THAT REASON, THIS SUMMARY
DOES NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE IMPORTANT TO YOU. TO FULLY
UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES OFFERED BY THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT,
YOU WILL NEED TO READ BOTH THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE ATTACHED
PROSPECTUS IN THEIR ENTIRETY.
TRUST
Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust 2002-A is a Delaware statutory business trust
established by the seller pursuant to a trust agreement.
OFFERED SECURITIES
The following securities are being offered by this prospectus supplement:
$445,000,000 Class A-1 % Asset Backed Notes
$460,000,000 Class A-2 % Asset Backed Notes
$570,000,000 Class A-3 % Asset Backed Notes
$498,400,000 Class A-4 % Asset Backed Notes
$50,600,000 % Asset Backed Certificates
SELLER AND SERVICER
Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, a wholly owned subsidiary of
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
INDENTURE TRUSTEE
Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association
OWNER TRUSTEE
Wilmington Trust Company
CLOSING DATE
The trust expects to issue the securities on March , 2002.
CUTOFF DATE
The seller will transfer the motor vehicle loans to the trust as of March 1,
2002.
STATISTICAL CUTOFF DATE
The seller prepared the statistical information on the motor vehicle loans to be
transferred to the trust as of February 21, 2002.
PROPERTY OF THE TRUST
The property of the trust will include the following:
o the motor vehicle loans,
o all collections on the motor vehicle loans received on and after the
cutoff date,
o amounts held from time to time in the reserve account and the other bank
accounts maintained for the trust,
o security interests in the financed vehicles,
o rights to proceeds from the exercise of the seller's recourse rights
against dealers,
o rights to proceeds from claims on insurance policies that cover the
obligors of the motor vehicle loans or the vehicles financed by the motor
vehicle loans and
o repossessed financed vehicles.
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
On the closing date, the seller will transfer the motor vehicle loans to the
trust in exchange for the securities. The motor vehicle loans are retail
installment sales contracts and purchase money notes and other notes secured by
new and used automobiles and light-duty trucks.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
The statistical information in this prospectus supplement on the motor vehicle
loans to be transferred to the trust on the closing date is presented as of
February 21, 2002. The seller may select additional motor vehicle loans to be
transferred to the trust after the statistical cutoff date. In addition, certain
motor vehicle loans included in the statistical information may not be included
in the motor vehicle loans transferred to the trust on the closing date. As a
result of this potential variation in the motor vehicle loans to be transferred
to the trust and the amortization of the motor vehicle loans between the
statistical cutoff date and the cutoff date, the statistical distribution of the
characteristics of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date may vary from
the statistical distribution of those characteristics as of February 21, 2002,
although that variance will not be material.
The aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicles loans as of the
statistical cutoff date was $2,054,892,095.23.
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The composition of the motor vehicle loans as of the statistical cutoff date was
as follows:
Number of Motor Vehicle
Loans 107,303
Average Principal Balance $19,150.37
Average Original Balance $19,448.01
Weighted Average
Contract Rate 7.152%
Contract Rate (Range) 0.00% to
18.00%
Weighted Average Original
Term 58.02 months
Original Term (Range) 12 months to 73 months
Weighted Average Remaining
Term 56.84 months
Remaining Term (Range) 10 months to 72 months
PRINCIPAL TERMS OF THE NOTES
FORM
The notes will be issued in book-entry form through DTC, Clearstream and
Euroclear in minimum denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
Definitive notes will be issued only under limited circumstances.
PAYMENT DATES
The trust will pay interest and principal on the notes on the 15th day of each
month unless the 15th day is not a business day, in which case the payment will
be made on the following business day. The first payment date is April 15, 2002.
RECORD DATES
On each payment date, the trust will pay interest and principal to the holders
of the notes as of the related record date. The record date for the notes will
be the day before the payment date. If definitive notes are issued, the record
date will be the last day of the month before the payment date.
INTEREST RATES
On each payment date, the trust will pay interest on each class of notes at the
rate shown on the cover page of this prospectus supplement.
INTEREST ACCRUAL
CLASS A-1 NOTES. "Actual/360", accrued from the prior payment date (or the
closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to and excluding the
current payment date.
CLASS A-2 NOTES, CLASS A-3 NOTES AND CLASS A-4 NOTES. "30/360", accrued from the
15th day of the previous month (or the closing date, in the case of the first
payment date) to and excluding the 15th day of the current month.
This means that, if there are no outstanding shortfalls in the payment of
interest, the interest due on each payment date will be the product of:
o the outstanding principal balance,
o the interest rate and
o in the case of the Class A-1 notes:
the actual number of days in the accrual period divided by 360, and
o in the case of the other classes of notes:
30 (or in the case of the first payment date, ) divided by 360.
Interest on any note that is not paid on a payment date will be due on the next
payment date, together with interest on that amount at the applicable interest
rate, to the extent lawful.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON THE NOTES, REFER
TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "THE NOTES--PAYMENTS OF
INTEREST."
PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS
The trust will pay the principal of the notes on each payment date in an amount
equal to the lesser of
o the amount available to the trust to pay principal on the notes and
o a targeted amount generally equal to either approximately 95.48% or 100%
of the sum of
o principal amounts collected on the motor vehicle loans during the
prior calendar month and
o the aggregate principal balance of all motor vehicle loans
designated as "defaulted receivables" in that month, net
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of liquidation proceeds allocable to principal received in that
month.
The targeted amount will equal 100% of that sum until the Class A-2 notes are
paid in full and approximately 95.48% thereafter unless
o the balance in the reserve account drops below 0.50% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date, in
which case, the targeted amount will equal 100% of that sum until the
notes have been paid in full or the balance in the reserve account equals
or exceeds the required amount
or
o the maturity of the notes has been accelerated following an event of
default, in which case, the targeted amount will equal 100% of that sum
until the notes have been paid in full.
If the full targeted amount of principal payable to the noteholders on any
payment date is not paid, the amount not paid will be included in the amount of
principal payable to the noteholders on the next payment date.
APPLICATION OF PRINCIPAL PRIOR TO ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES. The trust will pay
the principal of the notes of each class sequentially starting with the earliest
maturing class of notes then outstanding until that class is paid in full.
APPLICATION OF PRINCIPAL AFTER ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES. After an acceleration
of the maturity of the notes following an event of default, the trust will pay
the principal amount of the Class A-1 notes until the Class A-1 notes have been
paid in full and then pay the principal of the remaining classes of notes
ratably, based upon the outstanding principal amount of each such class of
notes.
The trust is required to pay the entire outstanding principal amount of each
class of notes, to the extent not previously paid, on the respective final
scheduled payment date shown on the cover page of this prospectus supplement.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL ON THE NOTES, REFER
TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "THE NOTES--PAYMENTS OF
PRINCIPAL."
PREPAYMENT
The trust will prepay the Class A-4 notes in full if the servicer exercises its
option to purchase the motor vehicle loans.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICER'S OPTION TO PURCHASE THE MOTOR
VEHICLE LOANS, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "THE
NOTES--PREPAYMENT."
PRINCIPAL TERMS OF THE CERTIFICATES
FORM
The certificates will be issued in book-entry form through DTC in minimum
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. Definitive certificates
will be issued only under limited circumstances.
PAYMENT DATES
The trust will make distributions of interest and principal in respect of the
certificates on the 15th day of each month unless the 15th day is not a business
day, in which case the distribution will be made on the following business day.
The first payment date is April 15, 2002.
RECORD DATES
On each payment date, the trust will distribute interest and principal to the
holders of the certificates as of the related record date. The record date for
the certificates will be the day before the payment date. If definitive
certificates are issued, the record date will be the last day of the month
before the payment date.
PASS-THROUGH RATE
On each payment date, the trust will distribute interest in respect of the
certificates at the pass-through rate shown on the cover of this prospectus
supplement.
INTEREST ACCRUAL
"30/360", accrued from the 15th day of the previous month (or the closing date,
in the case of the first payment date) to and excluding the 15th day of the
current month.
The trust will not make distributions of interest in respect of the certificates
after the acceleration of the maturity of the notes following an event of
default arising from a payment default until the trust pays the notes in full.
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Interest in respect of the certificates that is not paid on a payment date will
be due on the next payment date, together with interest on that amount at the
applicable pass-through rate, to the extent lawful.
PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTIONS
On the payment date on which the trust pays the Class A-2 notes in full and on
each payment date thereafter until the notes have been paid in full, the trust
will distribute principal in respect of the certificates in an amount equal to
the lesser of
o the amount available to the trust to make distributions of principal in
respect of the certificates and
o a targeted amount generally equal to approximately 4.52% of the sum of
o principal amounts collected on the motor vehicle loans during the
prior calendar month and
o the aggregate principal balance of all motor vehicle loans
designated as "defaulted receivables" in that month, net of
liquidation proceeds allocable to principal received in that month,
PROVIDED THAT the targeted amount will be zero on any payment date on which the
targeted amount for the notes is equal to 100% of the sum referenced above. On
each payment date after the notes have been paid in full, the targeted amount
will equal 100% of the sum referenced above.
REFER TO THE SECTION ENTITLED "PRINCIPAL TERMS OF THE NOTES--PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS"
ABOVE FOR A DISCUSSION OF WHEN THE TARGETED AMOUNT FOR THE NOTES WILL BE 100%.
If the full targeted amount of principal distributable to the certificateholders
on any payment date is not distributed, the shortfall will be included in the
amount of principal distributable to the certificateholders on the next payment
date.
The trust is required to reduce the outstanding certificate balance to zero no
later than the final scheduled payment date shown on the cover of this
prospectus supplement.
PREPAYMENT
The trust will reduce the outstanding certificate balance to zero if the
servicer exercises its option to purchase the motor vehicle loans.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICER'S OPTION TO PURCHASE THE MOTOR
VEHICLE LOANS, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "THE
CERTIFICATES--PREPAYMENT."
PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS
From available collections on the motor vehicle loans received during the prior
calendar month and any amounts withdrawn from the reserve account, the trust
will pay the following amounts on each payment date in the following order or
priority:
o the servicing fee payable to the servicer,
o the administration fee payable to the administrator,
o interest payable on the notes, ratably to the holders of each class of
notes,
o interest distributable in respect of the certificates, to the holders of
the certificates; PROVIDED THAT, if the maturity of the notes has been
accelerated following an event of default arising from a payment default,
interest will not be distributed to the holders of the certificates until
the notes are paid in full,
o principal due on the notes, to the holders of the notes in the order
described above,
o after the trust has paid the Class A-2 notes in full, principal
distributable in respect of the certificates, to the holders of the
certificates and
o any remaining amount, to the reserve account.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS, REFER TO THE
SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS."
CREDIT ENHANCEMENT
Losses and other shortfalls of cash flow will be covered by
o excess interest payments on other motor vehicle loans,
o withdrawals from the reserve account and
o allocations of available funds to
o the payment of interest on the notes before the distribution of
interest in respect of the certificates,
o the payment of principal of the notes before the distribution of
principal in respect of the certificates and,
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o after the maturity of the notes has been accelerated following an
event of default arising from a payment default, the payment of
principal of the notes before the distribution of interest in
respect of the certificates.
RESERVE ACCOUNT
On the closing date, the trust will deposit an amount equal to 0.75% of the
aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date in
the reserve account.
On each payment date, if collections on the motor vehicle loans are insufficient
to pay the servicing fee, the administration fee and all amounts payable in
respect of the securities, the indenture trustee will withdraw available funds
from the reserve account to pay such amounts.
Generally, the balance required to be on deposit in the reserve account on each
payment date will be 2.00% (4.00% if a trigger event occurs) of the outstanding
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans. However, the reserve account
balance on each payment date is required to be no less than 0.75% of the
aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date and
the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans.
If the average delinquency ratio or the average net loss ratio exceeds its
specified trigger level, then the balance that will be required to be on deposit
in the reserve account will be calculated using 4.00% rather than 2.00%.
If the seller desires to reduce the balance required to be on deposit in the
reserve account to a lesser amount and requests the rating agencies to confirm
that such reduction in the required balance will not adversely affect the
ratings of any of the notes or the certificates and the rating agencies confirm
that the reduction will not adversely affect the ratings of the securities
issued by the trust, the seller will reduce the required balance in the reserve
account to a lesser amount.
On each payment date, the trust will deposit into the reserve account all
collections on the motor vehicle loans remaining after the trust has paid the
servicer, the administrator and amounts due to the noteholders and the
certificateholders as described in this prospectus supplement.
On each payment date, the trust will distribute to the holder of the Class R
certificates funds on deposit in the reserve account in excess of the required
balance. On each payment date, the holder of the Class R certificates will be
entitled to receive all investment earnings on funds on deposit in the reserve
account earned since the prior payment date.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DEPOSITS TO AND WITHDRAWALS FROM THE
RESERVE ACCOUNT, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED
"THE TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS--RESERVE ACCOUNT."
SERVICING FEE
The trust will pay the servicer a servicing fee on each payment date for the
prior month equal to
o 1/12 of 1.0% of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle
loans at the end of the month before that month (or, in the case of the
first payment date, the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle
loans as of the cutoff date),
o all late fees and other administrative fees and expenses, if any,
collected during that month and
o all investment earnings on funds deposited into the collection account
during that month.
ADMINISTRATION FEE
The trust will pay JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrator, an administration fee
of $1,000 per month payable on the following payment date.
TAX STATUS
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, special counsel to the seller, will deliver its
opinion that for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
o the notes will be characterized as debt and
o the trust will not be characterized as an association (or a publicly
traded partnership) taxable as a corporation.
By purchasing a note, you will agree to treat your note as indebtedness.
By purchasing a certificate, you will agree to treat the trust as a partnership
in which the certificateholders are partners for federal, state and local
income tax purposes.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DISCUSSION OF TAX MATTERS, REFER TO THE SECTIONS OF THIS
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES."
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TAX-RELATED INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATES
The certificates may not be purchased by persons who are not "U.S. Persons" for
U.S. federal income tax purposes.
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS
The notes are generally eligible for purchase by or on behalf of employee
benefit plans and other similar retirement plans and arrangements that are
subject to ERISA, Section 4975 of the tax code or any similar laws or
regulations, and by entities whose underlying assets are considered to include
the assets of such plans and arrangements, provided certain conditions are
satisfied.
The certificates may also be purchased by or on behalf of such plans,
arrangements and entities if certain conditions are satisfied. However, any
fiduciary of such a plan, arrangement or entity that is considering an
investment in the certificates should consult with counsel concerning the
consequences of such a purchase, including the treatment of income in respect of
the certificates as unrelated business taxable income to a tax-exempt investor.
FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO THE SECTIONS ENTITLED "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN
CONSIDERATIONS" IN THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE PROSPECTUS.
RATINGS OF THE SECURITIES
It is a condition to the issuance of the securities that:
o the Class A-1 notes be rated in the highest short-term rating category by
at least two nationally recognized statistical rating organizations,
o the notes of each other class be rated in the highest long-term rating
category by at least two nationally recognized statistical rating
organizations, and
o the certificates be rated at least in the "A" category, or its equivalent
by at least two nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.
A rating is not a recommendation to purchase, hold or sell the securities,
inasmuch as a rating does not comment as to market price or suitability for a
particular investor. The ratings of the securities address the likelihood of the
payment of principal and interest on the securities according to their terms. We
cannot assure you that any of these ratings will not be lowered or withdrawn by
the related rating agency.
LEGAL INVESTMENT
The Class A-1 notes will be eligible securities for purchase by money market
funds under paragraph (a)(10) of Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended.
INVESTOR INFORMATION--MAILING ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER
The mailing address of the principal executive offices of Chase Manhattan Bank
USA, National Association is 200 White Clay Center Drive, Newark, Delaware
19711. Its telephone number is (302) 575-5000.
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RISK FACTORS
YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS AND THE RISK FACTORS
DESCRIBED ON PAGE 7 OF THE PROSPECTUS IN DECIDING WHETHER TO PURCHASE ANY OF THE
SECURITIES.
HOLDERS OF CERTIFICATES ARE SUBJECT TO GREATER CREDIT RISKS BECAUSE
DISTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT OF THE CERTIFICATES ARE SUBORDINATE TO PAYMENTS ON THE
NOTES.
The certificates bear greater credit risk than the notes because
distributions of principal in respect of the certificates are subordinated to
the payment of principal of the notes and distributions of interest in respect
of the certificates are subordinated to payment of interest on the notes and,
after the acceleration of the maturity of the notes following an event of
default arising from a payment default, no further distributions of principal or
interest in respect of the certificates will be made until the notes are paid in
full.
In addition, the trust will distribute no principal in respect of the
certificates until it pays the Class A-2 notes in full or any time thereafter if
the balance in the reserve account drops below 0.50% of the aggregate principal
balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date. Under those
circumstances, the trust will not resume distributions of principal in respect
of the certificates until the trust has paid the notes in full or the balance in
the reserve account equals or exceeds the required amount.
The subordination of the certificates means that the holders of the
certificates are more likely to suffer the consequences of delinquent payments
and defaults on the motor vehicle loans than the holders of the notes.
YOU MAY EXPERIENCE PREPAYMENTS AND LOSSES ON YOUR SECURITIES AFTER AN EVENT OF
DEFAULT UNDER THE INDENTURE.
An event of default under the indenture may result in losses on your notes
or certificates if the motor vehicle loans are sold and the sale proceeds,
together with any other assets of the trust, are insufficient to pay the amounts
owed on the notes and the certificates. In addition, if you receive your
principal earlier than expected, you may not be able to reinvest the prepaid
amount at a rate of return that is equal to or greater than the rate of return
on your securities.
ONLY THE ASSETS OF THE TRUST ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY YOUR SECURITIES.
The trust will not have any source of funds other than the motor vehicle
loans and the amounts on deposit in the reserve account. You must rely for
repayment of your securities on payments on the motor vehicle loans and
available amounts on deposit in the reserve account. Funds on deposit in the
reserve account will be limited in amount, and the amount required to be
maintained on deposit in the reserve account will be reduced as the balance of
the motor vehicle loans declines. You may suffer a loss if the amount on deposit
in the reserve account is exhausted and payments on the motor vehicle loans are
insufficient to make payments on the notes and the certificates.
The securities will not be insured or guaranteed by Chase USA or any of its
affiliates and are not obligations of or interests in Chase USA or any of its
affiliates.
YOU MAY EXPERIENCE A GREATER RISK OF LOSS ON YOUR SECURITIES AS THE RESULT OF
RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS.
On September 11, 2001, the United States was subject to multiple terrorist
attacks, resulting in the loss of many lives and massive property damage and
destruction in New York City and Washington D.C. Any effect that these terrorist
attacks and related military action may have on the performance of the motor
vehicle loans is unclear, but there could be an adverse effect on general
economic conditions, consumer confidence and general market liquidity. You
should consider the possible effects of the terrorist attacks and related
military action on the delinquency, default and prepayment experience of the
motor vehicle loans. In particular, under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil
Relief Act of 1940, members of the military on active duty, including
reservists, who have entered into a motor vehicle loan before entering into
military service or, in the case of reservists, before being placed on active
duty, may be entitled to reductions in interest rates to an annual rate of 6%
and a stay of foreclosure and similar actions. Because the Relief Act covers
obligors who enter military service (including reservists who are called to
active duty) after origination of the motor vehicle loan, no information can be
provided as to the number of motor vehicle loans that may be affected. If an
obligor's obligation to repay a receivable is reduced, adjusted or extended, the
servicer will not be required to cover such amounts. Any resulting shortfalls in
interest or principal payments on the motor vehicle loans will reduce the amount
available to make payments on the notes and the certificates.
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GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS MAY RESULT IN MORE RISK TO YOU.
If adverse events or economic conditions were particularly severe in a
geographic region where there is substantial concentration of obligors, the
amount of delinquent payments and defaulted receivables may increase. As a
result, the overall timing and amount of collections on the motor vehicle loans
may differ from what you expect, and you may experience delays or reductions in
payments on your securities.
The following are the approximate percentages of the aggregate principal
balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the statistical cutoff date of the
motor vehicle loans originated by or through a dealer located in the following
states:
California 14.42%
Texas 12.85%
New York 7.45%
Illinois 6.65%
New Jersey 6.50%
Florida 6.04%
None of the remaining states accounted for more than 5% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the statistical cutoff date.
THE ABSENCE OF AN EXISTING MARKET FOR THE SECURITIES MAY LIMIT YOUR ABILITY TO
RESELL THE SECURITIES.
There is currently no existing market for the securities. The underwriters
currently intend to make a market in the securities, but none of them is under
any obligation to do so. We cannot assure you that a secondary market will
develop or, if a secondary market does develop, that it will provide you with
liquidity of investment or that it will continue for the life of the securities.
THE TRUST
GENERAL
Chase Manhattan Auto Owner Trust 2002-A is a statutory business trust
formed under the laws of the State of Delaware by a trust agreement, as amended
and restated as of the cutoff date, between Chase USA and Wilmington Trust
Company, as trustee.
The trust will not engage in any activity other than:
o acquiring, holding and managing the motor vehicle loans, the other assets
of the trust and proceeds of those assets,
o issuing the notes, the certificates and the Class R certificates,
o making payments on the notes and distributions on the certificates and
the Class R certificates and
o engaging in other activities that are necessary, suitable or convenient
to accomplish any of the purposes listed above or are in any way
connected with these activities.
The trust will not acquire any motor vehicle loans or assets other than the
property described below and will not have any need for additional capital
resources.
The trust will be capitalized by the issuance of the notes, the
certificates and the Class R certificates and a cash capital contribution of
$15,180,000 by the seller which will be deposited by the trust into the reserve
account. The certificate balance and the reserve account represent the equity in
the trust. The trust will issue the Class R certificates to the seller and the
notes and certificates to the order of the seller in exchange for the seller's
cash contribution and the seller's transfer of the motor vehicle loans and
related property.
The trust's principal offices are in Delaware at the address listed below
under "--Trustee."
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TRUST PROPERTY
The trust property will include a pool of motor vehicle loans and all
monies received on the motor vehicle loans on and after the cutoff date. The
motor vehicle loans are motor vehicle retail installment sales contracts and
purchase money notes and other notes relating to new or used automobiles or
light-duty trucks.
The trust property will also include:
o amounts held from time to time in the reserve account and other accounts
maintained for the trust,
o security interests in the financed vehicles,
o rights to proceeds from the exercise of the seller's recourse rights
against dealers,
o rights to proceeds from claims on theft and physical damage, credit life
and credit disability insurance policies covering the vehicles financed
by the motor vehicle loans or the obligors of the motor vehicle loans,
o repossessed financed vehicles and
o any and all proceeds of the above items.
If the protection provided to the noteholders by the subordination of
distributions to the certificateholders and to the noteholders and the
certificateholders by the reserve account is insufficient, the trust will have
to look solely to the obligors on the motor vehicle loans and the proceeds from
the repossession and sale of the financed vehicles which secure defaulted
receivables in order to repay you. In that event, certain factors, such as the
trust's not having a first priority perfected security interest in some of the
financed vehicles, may affect the trust's ability to realize on the collateral
securing the motor vehicle loans, and thus may reduce the proceeds which the
trust can distribute to securityholders.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBORDINATION OF DISTRIBUTIONS IN
RESPECT OF THE SECURITIES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
ENTITLED "PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS." FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE
RISKS AFFECTING THE TRUST'S ABILITY TO REALIZE ON THE FINANCED VEHICLES, REFER
TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "MATERIAL LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE MOTOR
VEHICLE LOANS."
CAPITALIZATION OF THE TRUST
The following table illustrates the capitalization of the trust as of the
cutoff date, as if the issuance and sale of the notes and the certificates had
taken place on that date:
Class A-1 Notes ............................................ $ 445,000,000
Class A-2 Notes ............................................ 460,000,000
Class A-3 Notes ............................................ 570,000,000
Class A-4 Notes ............................................ 498,400,000
Certificates ............................................... 50,600,000
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Total ................................................... $2,024,000,000
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The trust will issue the Class R certificates to the seller representing an
ownership interest in the trust. The Class R certificates do not have a
principal balance nor do they accrue interest. The Class R certificates are not
being offered for sale pursuant to this prospectus supplement.
TRUSTEE
Wilmington Trust Company is the trustee under the trust agreement.
Wilmington Trust Company is a Delaware banking corporation and its principal
offices are located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19800-0001, telephone (302) 651-1000. The seller and its
affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relations with the trustee and
its affiliates.
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THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The trust will own a pool of motor vehicle loans consisting of retail
installment sales contracts, purchase money notes and other notes secured by new
and used automobiles and light-duty trucks. The motor vehicle loans were
selected from the retail installment sales contracts, purchase money notes and
other notes owned by Chase USA that satisfy certain criteria. The motor vehicle
loans were required to satisfy these criteria as of the statistical cutoff date
and will be required to satisfy these criteria as of the cutoff date.
In addition to the criteria described in the section of the prospectus
entitled "The Motor Vehicle Loans--General" these criteria include the
requirement that each motor vehicle loan:
o has a remaining maturity, as of the applicable cutoff date, of at least 9
months and not more than 72 months,
o is secured by a new financed vehicle and had an original maturity of not
less than 12 months and not more than 73 months or is secured by a used
financed vehicle and had an original maturity of not less than 12 months
and not more than 67 months,
o is a fully-amortizing fixed rate simple interest contract that provides
for level scheduled monthly payments over its remaining term and has an
annual contract rate of interest of not more than 18.00% per annum,
o has a remaining principal balance, as of the applicable cutoff date, of
not less than $2,000 and not more than $100,000,
o has no payment more than 30 days past due as of the applicable cutoff
date,
o is not originated by or through a dealer located in the State of Alabama
or Maryland,
o is not a motor vehicle loan subject to a debt cancellation policy issued
by Chase USA to the obligor that forgives the principal balance of the
motor vehicle loan to the extent that the insurance proceeds in the event
of a total loss of the financed vehicle are insufficient to repay the
motor vehicle loan in full and
o is a motor vehicle loan originated by a dealer under a dealer agreement
with Chase USA.
COMPOSITION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
The statistical information presented in this prospectus supplement on the
motor vehicle loans to be transferred to the trust on the closing date is
presented as of the statistical cutoff date, which is February 21, 2002.
As of the statistical cutoff date, the motor vehicle loans had an aggregate
principal balance of $2,054,892,095.23. As of the cutoff date, the motor vehicle
loans are expected to have an aggregate principal balance of approximately
$2,024,000,000.
The aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans to be
transferred to the trust as of the cutoff date will be less than the aggregate
principal balance of those motor vehicle loans as of the statistical cutoff date
because of the amortization of those motor vehicle loans between the statistical
cutoff date and the cutoff date. In addition, certain motor vehicle loans
included in the statistical information may not be included in the motor vehicle
loans transferred to the trust on the closing date. Motor vehicle loans
initially selected for transfer to the trust will not be included if they do not
satisfy the eligibility criteria as of the cutoff date. Motor vehicle loans may
prepay in full between the statistical cutoff date and the cutoff date. In
addition, Chase USA may delete certain of the motor vehicle loans from the final
pool of motor vehicle loans transferred to the trust and may select additional
motor vehicle loans to be transferred to the trust after the statistical cutoff
date. As a result of these changes in the motor vehicle loans to be transferred
to the trust, the statistical distribution of the characteristics of the motor
vehicle loans as of the cutoff date may vary from the statistical distribution
of those characteristics as of the statistical cutoff date, although that
variance will not be material.
As of the statistical cutoff date, approximately 11.65% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans were originated under programs with
automobile manufacturers under which the manufacturers make upfront payments to
Chase USA in exchange for Chase USA's originating motor vehicle loans with
below-market annual contract rates of interest.
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The motor vehicle loans were selected from Chase USA's portfolio of retail
installment sales contracts, purchase money notes and other notes secured by new
and used automobile and light-duty trucks that met the above criteria. For
administrative reasons, Chase USA selected only from those motor vehicle loans
in its portfolio that were posted to its servicing system since December 12,
2001, which were segregated and held for sale by Chase USA.
As of the statistical cutoff date, approximately 66.33% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans were secured by new vehicles and
light-duty trucks, and approximately 33.67% were secured by used vehicles and
light duty trucks.
The composition of the motor vehicle loans as of the statistical cutoff
date was as follows:
COMPOSITION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
NEW FINANCED USED FINANCED
VEHICLES VEHICLES TOTAL
----------------- --------------- ----------------
Aggregate Principal Balance ....... $1,362,930,426.10 $691,961,669.13 $2,054,892,095.23
Number of Motor Vehicle Loans ..... 62,991 44,312 107,303
Average Principal Balance ......... $21,636.91 $15,615.67 $19,150.37
Average Original Balance .......... $21,984.23 $15,842.69 $19,448.01
Weighted Average Contract Rate .... 6.60% 8.23% 7.15%
Contract Rate (Range) ............. 0.00% to 18.00% 0.90% to 18.00% 0.00% to 18.00%
Weighted Average Original Term .... 58.25 months 57.58 months 58.02 months
Original Term (Range) ............. 12 months to 73 months 12 months to 67 months 12 months to 73 months
Weighted Average Remaining
Term .............................. 57.07 months 56.41 months 56.84 months
Remaining Term (Range) ............ 10 months to 72 months 10 months to 66 months 10 months to 72 months
The distribution by contract rate of the motor vehicle loans, the
geographic distribution of the motor vehicle loans, the distribution by
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans and the distribution by remaining
term to maturity of the motor vehicle loans, in each case as of the statistical
cutoff date, are set forth in the following tables.
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DISTRIBUTION BY CONTRACT RATE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
AS OF THE STATISTICAL CUTOFF DATE
PERCENT OF
NUMBER OF AGGREGATE
CONTRACT RATE RANGE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS PRINCIPAL BALANCE PRINCIPAL BALANCE(1)
- ------------------- ------------------- ----------------- --------------------
0.00% to 3.99%. ........ 4,464 $ 72,802,342.44 3.54%
4.00% to 4.99%. ........ 8,132 163,092,417.21 7.94
5.00% to 5.99%. ........ 12,061 278,429,130.65 13.55
6.00% to 6.49%. ........ 11,286 233,956,354.65 11.39
6.50% to 6.99%. ........ 23,108 476,703,339.42 23.20
7.00% to 7.49%. ........ 7,058 133,455,796.31 6.49
7.50% to 7.99%. ........ 12,920 233,488,358.46 11.36
8.00% to 8.49% ......... 3,674 64,775,799.21 3.15
8.50% to 8.99%. ........ 7,376 125,934,950.67 6.13
9.00% to 9.49% ......... 2,647 43,862,684.63 2.13
9.50% to 9.99% ......... 5,719 93,884,548.22 4.57
10.00% to 10.49% ....... 1,773 27,760,942.61 1.35
10.50% to 10.99% ....... 2,430 38,151,351.10 1.86
11.00% to 11.49% ....... 825 12,675,066.72 0.62
11.50% to 11.99% ....... 1,161 17,123,166.31 0.83
12.00% to 12.49% ....... 529 7,544,368.08 0.37
12.50% to 12.99% ....... 665 9,781,275.98 0.48
13.00% to 13.49% ....... 337 4,870,033.93 0.24
13.50% to 13.99% ....... 367 5,161,259.27 0.25
14.00% to 14.49% ....... 214 3,181,545.03 0.15
14.50% to 14.99% ....... 206 2,947,306.79 0.14
15.00% to 15.49% ....... 65 943,483.53 0.05
15.50% to 15.99% ....... 70 1,151,781.88 0.06
16.00% to 16.49% ....... 43 629,894.38 0.03
16.50% to 16.99% ....... 81 1,280,195.67 0.06
17.00% to 17.49% ....... 33 448,205.90 0.02
17.50% to 17.99% ....... 53 775,589.45 0.04
18.00% ................. 6 80,906.73 0.00
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Total: ................. 107,303 $2,054,892,095.23 100.00%
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(1) Percentages may not add to 100.00% due to rounding.
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GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS(1)
AS OF THE STATISTICAL CUTOFF DATE
PERCENT OF
NUMBER OF AGGREGATE
STATE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS PRINCIPAL BALANCE PRINCIPAL BALANCE(2)
- --- ------------------- ----------------- --------- ----------
Alaska .................. 96 $ 1,808,927.61 0.09%
Arizona ................. 1,213 22,646,070.38 1.10
Arkansas ................ 584 9,797,957.15 0.48
California .............. 13,907 296,225,283.03 14.42
Colorado ................ 3,260 62,809,587.95 3.06
Connecticut ............. 3,221 57,438,195.39 2.80
Delaware ................ 684 13,103,726.67 0.64
Florida ................. 6,755 124,083,722.82 6.04
Georgia ................. 2,662 54,102,390.28 2.63
Hawaii .................. 12 262,319.15 0.01
Idaho ................... 214 3,946,639.56 0.19
Illinois ................ 7,031 136,731,624.60 6.65
Indiana ................. 1,163 21,933,281.68 1.07
Iowa .................... 663 10,692,595.07 0.52
Kansas .................. 776 13,577,169.78 0.66
Kentucky ................ 515 9,482,146.38 0.46
Louisiana ............... 288 5,557,645.24 0.27
Maine ................... 382 7,205,042.16 0.35
Massachusetts ........... 4,025 75,747,428.65 3.69
Michigan ................ 2,944 51,699,276.51 2.52
Minnesota ............... 3,524 61,779,725.91 3.01
Mississippi ............. 66 1,133,706.25 0.06
Missouri ................ 2,087 37,209,788.07 1.81
Montana ................. 243 4,113,458.80 0.20
Nebraska ................ 846 14,408,348.95 0.70
Nevada .................. 598 12,461,422.03 0.61
New Hampshire ........... 891 15,100,149.34 0.73
New Jersey .............. 7,085 133,631,388.41 6.50
New Mexico .............. 246 4,220,150.47 0.21
New York ................ 8,328 153,145,240.81 7.45
North Carolina .......... 2,327 44,868,515.63 2.18
North Dakota ............ 20 335,260.62 0.02
Ohio .................... 2,684 46,076,988.45 2.24
Oklahoma ................ 829 15,052,645.14 0.73
Oregon .................. 1,517 27,993,276.17 1.36
Pennsylvania ............ 3,884 72,378,973.71 3.52
Rhode Island ............ 158 3,299,794.36 0.16
South Carolina .......... 285 5,220,756.60 0.25
South Dakota ............ 101 1,786,805.11 0.09
Tennessee ............... 722 14,272,410.35 0.69
Texas ................... 12,848 263,966,991.17 12.85
Utah .................... 398 7,839,996.76 0.38
Vermont ................. 406 6,961,374.44 0.34
Virginia ................ 1,945 37,716,331.08 1.84
Washington .............. 2,241 45,026,988.82 2.19
West Virginia ........... 212 4,017,209.06 0.20
Wisconsin ............... 2,356 40,831,642.25 1.99
Wyoming ................. 61 1,191,726.41 0.06
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Total: .................. 107,303 $2,054,892,095.23 100.00%
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(1) Based on the location of the dealer originating the motor vehicle loan.
(2) Percentages may not add to 100.00% due to rounding.
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DISTRIBUTION BY PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
AS OF THE STATISTICAL CUTOFF DATE
PERCENT OF
NUMBER OF AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL BALANCE ($) MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS PRINCIPAL BALANCE PRINCIPAL BALANCE(1)
- --------------------- ------------------- ----------------- --------------------
2,000.01 to 5,000.00 ......... 201 $ 815,554.36 0.04%
5,000.01 to 10,000.00 ........ 10,160 85,844,377.18 4.18
10,000.01 to 15,000.00 ....... 26,743 338,800,582.83 16.49
15,000.01 to 20,000.00 ....... 29,185 509,878,382.03 24.81
20,000.01 to 25,000.00 ....... 20,689 461,816,268.43 22.47
25,000.01 to 30,000.00 ....... 10,779 293,434,421.00 14.28
30,000.01 to 35,000.00 ....... 4,822 155,072,202.33 7.55
35,000.01 to 40,000.00 ....... 2,203 82,200,790.70 4.00
40,000.01 to 45,000.00 ....... 1,015 42,890,491.73 2.09
45,000.01 to 50,000.00 ....... 580 27,532,395.27 1.34
50,000.01 to 55,000.00 ....... 334 17,459,900.21 0.85
55,000.01 to 60,000.00 ....... 200 11,486,231.61 0.56
60,000.01 to 65,000.00 ....... 146 9,115,754.12 0.44
65,000.01 to 70,000.00 ....... 90 6,052,354.54 0.29
70,000.01 to 75,000.00 ....... 51 3,688,733.35 0.18
75,000.01 to 80,000.00 ....... 41 3,176,194.91 0.15
80,000.01 to 85,000.00 ....... 29 2,385,521.84 0.12
85,000.01 to 90,000.00 ....... 11 963,320.29 0.05
90,000.01 to 95,000.00 ....... 12 1,111,418.50 0.05
95,000.01 to 100,000.00 ...... 12 1,167,200.00 0.06
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Total: ....................... 107,303 $2,054,892,095.23 100.00%
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DISTRIBUTION BY REMAINING TERM TO MATURITY OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
AS OF THE STATISTICAL CUTOFF DATE
PERCENT OF
NUMBER OF AGGREGATE
REMAINING TERM TO MATURITY (IN MONTHS) MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS PRINCIPAL BALANCE PRINCIPAL BALANCE(1)
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1 to 12 .............................. 39 $ 446,540.07 0.02%
13 to 24 ............................. 2,361 35,057,609.18 1.71
25 to 36 ............................. 6,763 100,033,750.66 4.87
37 to 48 ............................. 12,218 184,668,879.30 8.99
49 to 60 ............................. 80,012 1,591,058,543.46 77.43
61 to 72 ............................. 5,910 143,626,772.56 6.99
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Total: ............................... 107,303 $2,054,892,095.23 100.00%
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(1) Percentages may not add to 100.00% due to rounding.
DELINQUENCY AND LOAN LOSS INFORMATION
The following tables set forth information with respect to delinquencies,
loan losses and recoveries for the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO as of the dates and for
the periods indicated. The portions of the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO that provide for
payments based upon a variable rate of interest or that provide for a final
scheduled payment which is greater than the scheduled monthly payments are
included in the following tables, but the motor vehicle loans held by the trust
will not include those types of loans. We do not maintain separate records that
distinguish among the delinquency and loan loss experience for fixed rate motor
vehicle loans (such as the motor vehicle loans included in the trust) and
variable rate motor vehicle loans nor do we maintain records of the delinquency
and loan loss experience that excludes motor vehicle loans with larger final
scheduled payments. We believe that the delinquency
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and loan loss experience with respect to the types of motor vehicle loans
included in the trust is not materially different from the performance of the
CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO set forth below.
The data presented in the following tables are for illustrative purposes
only. Delinquency and loan loss experience may be influenced by a variety of
economic, social and other factors. We cannot assure you that the delinquency
and loan loss experience of the motor vehicle loans included in the trust will
be similar to the delinquency and loan loss levels set forth below.
DELINQUENCY EXPERIENCE
AS OF DECEMBER 31,
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2001 2000 1999
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DOLLARS NUMBER DOLLARS NUMBER DOLLARS NUMBER
(000'S) OF LOANS (000'S) OF LOANS (000'S) OF LOANS
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Outstanding Principal Amount. $21,714,246 1,594,239 $16,304,564 1,289,541 $14,454,904 1,178,052
Delinquencies(1)(2)
30-59 Days ................. $ 291,015 22,079 $ 241,230 21,844 $ 229,630 16,581
60-89 Days ................. 87,256 7,758 67,073 6,627 57,738 4,835
90 Days or More .............. 50,033 4,543 27,236 3,021 27,286 2,827
Total Delinquencies .......... $ 428,304 34,380 $ 335,539 31,492 $ 314,654 24,243
Repossession Inventory ..... 35,005 2,408 26,099 1,783 25,843 1,834
Total Delinquencies &
Repossession Inventory ....... $ 463,309 36,788 $ 361,638 33,275 $ 340,497 26,077
Delinquencies(1)(2)(3)
30-59 ...................... 1.34% 1.48% 1.59%
60-89 ...................... 0.40% 0.41% 0.40%
90 Days or More ............ 0.23% 0.17% 0.19%
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Total Delinquencies(3)(4) .... 1.97% 2.06% 2.18%
Repossession Inventory(3) .... 0.16% 0.16% 0.18%
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Total Delinquencies &
Repossession Inventory(3)(4) 2.13% 2.22% 2.36%
AS OF DECEMBER 31,
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1998 1997
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DOLLARS NUMBER DOLLARS NUMBER
(000'S) OF LOANS (000'S) OF LOANS
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Outstanding Principal Amount ........................... $14,451,927 1,149,636 $11,114,504 938,495
Delinquencies(1)(2)
30-59 Days ........................................... $ 215,114 15,909 $ 153,761 12,937
60-89 Days ........................................... 46,707 4,008 39,329 3,448
90 Days or More ...................................... 28,329 2,529 24,322 2,190
Total Delinquencies .................................... $ 290,150 22,446 $ 217,412 18,575
Repossession Inventory ................................. 26,018 1,690 30,374 1,944
Total Delinquencies & Repossession Inventory ........... $ 316,168 24,136 $ 247,786 20,519
Delinquencies(1)(2)(3)
30-59 Days ........................................... 1.49% 1.38%
60-89 Days ........................................... 0.32% 0.35%
90 Days or More ...................................... 0.20% 0.22%
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Total Delinquencies(3)(4) .............................. 2.01% 1.96%
Repossession Inventory(3) .............................. 0.18% 0.27%
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Total Delinquencies &
Repossession Inventory(3)(4) ......................... 2.19% 2.23%
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(1) Delinquencies include principal amounts and interest.
(2) The period of delinquency is based on the number of days payments are
contractually past due.
(3) As a percent of outstanding principal in dollars.
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(4) Percentages representing Total Delinquencies and Total Delinquencies &
Repossession Inventory may not equal the sum of their components due to
rounding.
LOAN LOSS EXPERIENCE
(DOLLARS IN 000'S)
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
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2001 2000(6) 1999 1998 1997
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Number of Loans(1) ........................ 1,594,239 1,289,541 1,178,052 1,149,636 938,495
Period End Outstanding Principal Amount ... $21,714,246 $16,304,564 $14,454,904 $14,451,927 $11,114,504
Average Outstanding Principal Amount(2) ... $18,673,313 $14,865,555 $14,504,476 $12,782,467 $10,630,360
Number of Repossessions ................... 12,615 10,067 8,684 7,837 5,834
Number of Gross Charge-Offs ............... 20,727 15,439 10,172 9,942 7,524
Gross Charge-Offs(3) ...................... $ 137,710 $ 111,094 $ 82,688 $ 81,652 $ 57,017
Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Period End
Outstanding Principal Amount(3) ......... 0.63% 0.68% 0.57% 0.56% 0.51%
Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Average End
Outstanding Principal Amount(3) ........... 0.74% 0.75% 0.57% 0.64% 0.54%
Recoveries(4) ............................. $ (30,149) $ (18,827) $ (22,237) $ (18,236) $ (10,622)
Net Charge-Offs(5) ........................ 107,561 $ 92,267 $ 60,361 $ 63,416 $ 46,395
Net Charge-Offs as a % of Period End
Outstanding Principal Amount(5) ......... 0.50% 0.57% 0.42% 0.44% 0.42%
Net Charge-Offs as a % of Average
Outstanding Principal Amount(5) ......... 0.58% 0.62% 0.42% 0.50% 0.44%
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(1) Number of loans as of period end.
(2) The average for each period presented was computed by taking a simple
average of monthly average outstanding principal amounts for such period.
(3) Amount charged off is remaining principal balance less proceeds from sale
of repossessed vehicles.
(4) Recoveries generally include amounts received with respect to loans
previously charged-off, except for proceeds realized in connection with the
sale of the repossessed vehicles.
(5) Net Charge-Offs mean gross charge-offs minus recoveries of loans previously
charged-off. Net Charge-Offs may not equal the difference of its
components due to rounding.
(6) Included in the Year Ended December 31, 2000, was $22,273 thousand of net
charge-offs relating to the revised Federal Financial Institutions
Examinations Council policy, which was required to be adopted by Chase USA
by the end of the fourth quarter of 2000 and which established uniform
guidelines for the charge-off of consumer loans to delinquent, bankrupt,
deceased and fraudulent borrowers.
CHASE USA
Information regarding Chase USA is set forth in the section of the
prospectus entitled "Chase USA." At December 31, 2001, Chase USA's total assets
were approximately $52.4 billion, total liabilities were approximately $48.0
billion and total stockholder's equity was approximately $4.4 billion.
USE OF PROCEEDS
The seller will use the proceeds from the sale of the securities, after
capitalizing the trust by making the initial deposit into the reserve account
and paying expenses, for general purposes.
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE OF THE SECURITIES
MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS
Additional information regarding maturity and prepayment considerations
with respect to the securities is provided in the section of the prospectus
entitled "Weighted Average Life of Securities."
In addition, no principal payments will be made:
o on the Class A-2 notes until the Class A-1 notes have been paid in full,
o on the Class A-3 notes until the Class A-2 notes have been paid in full,
o on the Class A-4 notes until the Class A-3 notes have been paid in full
or
o on the certificates until the Class A-2 notes have been paid in full.
However, if the maturity of the notes is accelerated following an event of
default, principal payments will be made on the Class A-1 notes until the Class
A-1 notes are paid in full and then ratably on all other classes of the notes
and no further distributions of principal (or, in the case of an event of
default arising from a payment default, interest) in respect of the certificates
will be made until the notes are paid in full.
The rate of payment of principal of each class of notes and the
certificates will depend on the rate of payment (including prepayments) of the
principal of the motor vehicle loans. A higher than anticipated rate of
prepayments will reduce the outstanding amounts of the securities faster than
expected and reduce the anticipated aggregate interest payments on the
securities. Noteholders and certificateholders alone will bear any reinvestment
risks resulting from a faster or slower incidence of prepayment of motor vehicle
loans as set forth in the priority of distributions in this prospectus
supplement. Such reinvestment risks include the risk that interest rates may be
lower at the time such holders receive payments from the trust than interest
rates would otherwise have been had such prepayments not been made or had such
prepayments been made at a different time.
Noteholders and certificateholders should consider:
o in the case of notes or certificates purchased at a discount, the risk
that a slower than anticipated rate of prepayments of motor vehicle loans
could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield
and
o in the case of notes or certificates purchased at a premium, the risk
that a faster than anticipated rate of prepayments of motor vehicle loans
could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield.
Under a program sponsored by Saturn Corporation and its dealers, a
purchaser of a new Saturn vehicle has the right to return his or her car to the
related dealer for any reason within 30 days of purchase or 1,500 miles of use
and receive a refund of the purchase price. Approximately 0.96% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date were secured
by financed vehicles manufactured by Saturn. In the event the obligor under a
motor vehicle loan secured by a Saturn vehicle returns the related financed
vehicle for a refund, such motor vehicle loan will be prepaid and the weighted
average life of the notes and the certificates may be decreased.
WE CANNOT ASSURE YOU THAT YOUR SECURITIES WILL BE REPAID ON THE RELATED
FINAL SCHEDULED PAYMENT DATE. We expect that final payment of the notes and the
final distribution in respect of the certificates will occur on or prior to the
respective final scheduled payment date for such securities. However, we cannot
assure you that sufficient funds will be available to pay each class of notes
and the certificates on or prior to the respective final scheduled payment date
for such securities. If sufficient funds are not available, final payment of the
notes and the final distribution in respect of the certificates could occur
later than such dates.
ILLUSTRATION OF EFFECT OF PREPAYMENTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS ON THE LIFE OF THE
SECURITIES
The following information is given solely to illustrate the effect of
prepayments of the motor vehicle loans on the weighted average life of the
securities under the stated assumptions and is not a prediction of the
prepayment rate that might actually be experienced by the motor vehicle loans.
Prepayments on motor vehicle loans can be measured relative to a prepayment
standard or model. The model used in this prospectus supplement, the Absolute
Prepayment Model (ABS) represents an assumed rate of prepayment each month
relative to the original number of motor vehicle loans in a pool of receivables.
ABS further
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assumes that all the motor vehicle loans are the same size and amortize at the
same rate and that each motor vehicle loan in each month of its life will either
be paid as scheduled or be prepaid in full. For example, in a pool of motor
vehicle loans originally containing 10,000 motor vehicle loans, a 1% ABS rate
means that 100 motor vehicle loans prepay each month. ABS does not purport to be
a historical description of prepayment experience or a prediction of the
anticipated rate of prepayment of any pool of motor vehicle loans, including the
motor vehicle loans held by the trust.
The tables (the ABS Tables) captioned "Percent of Initial Note Principal
Amount at Various ABS Percentages" and "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance
at Various ABS Percentages," respectively, have been prepared on the basis of
the characteristics of the motor vehicle loans held by the trust. The ABS Tables
assume that:
o the motor vehicle loans prepay in full at the specified constant
percentage of ABS monthly, with no defaults, losses or repurchases,
o each scheduled monthly payment on the motor vehicle loans is scheduled to
be made and is made on the last day of each month and each month has 30
days,
o payment on the notes and distributions on the certificates are made on
each payment date (and each payment date is assumed to be the 15th day of
the applicable month),
o no event of default occurs,
o the notes and certificates are issued on March 6, 2002, and
o the servicer does not exercise its option to purchase the motor vehicle
loans.
The ABS Tables indicate the projected weighted average life of each class
of notes and the certificates and set forth the percent of the initial principal
amount of each class of notes and the percent of the initial certificate balance
of the certificates that is projected to be outstanding after each of the
payment dates shown at various constant ABS percentages.
The ABS Tables also assume that the motor vehicle loans have been
aggregated into hypothetical pools with all of the motor vehicle loans within
each such pool having the following characteristics and that the level scheduled
monthly payment for each of the pools (which is based on the pool's aggregate
principal balance, weighted average contract rate of interest, weighted average
original term to maturity and weighted average remaining term to maturity as of
the statistical cutoff date) will be such that each pool will be fully amortized
by the end of its remaining term to maturity.
ORIGINAL TERM REMAINING TERM
AGGREGATE CONTRACT TO MATURITY TO MATURITY
POOL PRINCIPAL BALANCE RATE (IN MONTHS) (IN MONTHS)
- ---------------- ----------------- -------- -------------- --------------
1 .............. $ 34,970,399.78 3.814% 24 23
2 .............. $ 98,529,899.36 5.895% 36 35
3 .............. $ 181,892,670.94 7.459% 48 47
4 .............. $1,567,139,461.70 7.206% 60 59
5 .............. $ 141,467,568.22 7.855% 71 70
The actual characteristics and performance of the motor vehicle loans will
differ from the assumptions used in constructing the ABS Tables. The assumptions
used are hypothetical and have been provided only to give a general sense of how
the principal cash flows might behave under varying prepayment scenarios. For
example, it is very unlikely that the motor vehicle loans will prepay at a
constant level of ABS until maturity or that all of the motor vehicle loans will
prepay at the same level of ABS. Moreover, the diverse terms of motor vehicle
loans within each of the hypothetical pools could produce slower or faster
principal distributions than indicated in the ABS Tables at the various constant
percentages of ABS specified, even if the original and remaining terms to
maturity of the motor vehicle loans are as assumed. Any difference between such
assumptions and the actual characteristics and performance of the motor vehicle
loans, or actual prepayment experience, will affect the percentages of initial
amounts outstanding over time and the weighted average life of each class of
notes and the certificates.
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PERCENT OF INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT AT VARIOUS ABS PERCENTAGES
CLASS A-1 NOTES CLASS A-2 NOTES
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ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE
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PAYMENT DATES 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00% 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00%
- --------- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
Closing Date ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2002 ...... 91 88 87 86 85 84 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2002 ........ 82 77 74 73 71 68 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2002 ....... 72 66 62 59 56 52 100 100 100 100 100 100
July 15, 2002 ....... 63 54 49 46 42 37 100 100 100 100 100 100
August 15, 2002 ..... 54 43 37 33 28 22 100 100 100 100 100 100
September 15, 2002 .. 45 32 25 20 15 7 100 100 100 100 100 100
October 15, 2002 .... 36 21 13 7 1 0 100 100 100 100 100 92
November 15, 2002 ... 27 11 1 0 0 0 100 100 100 94 88 79
December 15, 2002 ... 18 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 89 82 75 65
January 15, 2003 .... 9 0 0 0 0 0 100 90 78 71 63 51
February 15, 2003 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 80 67 59 51 38
March 15, 2003 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 91 70 56 48 39 25
April 15, 2003 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 83 60 46 36 27 13
May 15, 2003 ........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 50 35 25 15 1
June 15, 2003 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 66 40 25 14 4 0
July 15, 2003 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 57 31 14 4 0 0
August 15, 2003 ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 21 4 0 0 0
September 15, 2003 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 12 0 0 0 0
October 15, 2003 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 2 0 0 0 0
November 15, 2003 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 0
December 15, 2003 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0
January 15, 2004 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
February 15, 2004 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weighted Average Life
(years) (1) ......... 0.52 0.44 0.40 0.38 0.36 0.33 1.47 1.24 1.12 1.05 0.99 0.91
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(1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (i) multiplying the
amount of each principal payment of such note by the number of years from
the date of the issuance of the note to the payment date on which it is
made, (ii) adding the results and (iii) dividing the sum by the initial
principal amount of such note.
THE ABS TABLES HAVE BEEN PREPARED BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS DESCRIBED ABOVE
(INCLUDING THE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS WHICH WILL DIFFER FROM THE ACTUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS) AND SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION
THEREWITH.
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CLASS A-3 NOTES CLASS A-4 NOTES
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ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1) ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1)
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PAYMENT DATES 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00% 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00%
- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
Closing Date ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2002 ...... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2002 ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2002 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
July 15, 2002 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
August 15, 2002 ..... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
September 15, 2002 .. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
October 15, 2002 .... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
November 15, 2002 ... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
December 15, 2002 ... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
January 15, 2003 .... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
February 15, 2003 ... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
March 15, 2003 ...... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2003 ...... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2003 ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2003 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 91 100 100 100 100 100 100
July 15, 2003 ....... 100 100 100 100 95 82 100 100 100 100 100 100
August 15, 2003 ..... 100 100 100 95 86 73 100 100 100 100 100 100
September 15, 2003 .. 100 100 96 87 78 64 100 100 100 100 100 100
October 15, 2003 .... 100 100 88 79 70 56 100 100 100 100 100 100
November 15, 2003 ... 100 95 81 71 62 48 100 100 100 100 100 100
December 15, 2003 ... 100 88 74 64 54 40 100 100 100 100 100 100
January 15, 2004 .... 100 81 66 57 47 32 100 100 100 100 100 100
February 15, 2004 ... 99 74 59 49 39 24 100 100 100 100 100 100
March 15, 2004 ...... 93 68 53 43 32 17 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2004 ...... 87 62 46 36 26 10 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2004 ........ 81 55 40 29 19 3 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2004 ....... 75 49 34 23 13 0 100 100 100 100 100 96
July 15, 2004 ....... 69 43 27 17 6 0 100 100 100 100 100 89
August 15, 2004 ..... 63 37 21 11 * 0 100 100 100 100 100 82
September 15, 2004 .. 57 31 15 5 0 0 100 100 100 100 94 75
October 15, 2004 .... 51 25 10 0 0 0 100 100 100 99 87 69
November 15, 2004 ... 45 20 4 0 0 0 100 100 100 93 81 63
December 15, 2004 ... 39 14 0 0 0 0 100 100 98 87 75 57
January 15, 2005 .... 34 8 0 0 0 0 100 100 92 81 69 51
February 15, 2005 ... 28 3 0 0 0 0 100 100 86 75 63 46
March 15, 2005 ...... 23 0 0 0 0 0 100 98 81 69 58 41
April 15, 2005 ...... 17 0 0 0 0 0 100 92 75 64 53 36
May 15, 2005 ........ 12 0 0 0 0 0 100 87 70 59 48 32
June 15, 2005 ....... 7 0 0 0 0 0 100 81 65 54 44 27
July 15, 2005 ....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 100 76 60 50 39 23
August 15, 2005 ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 71 56 45 35 20
September 15, 2005 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 66 51 41 31 16
October 15, 2005 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 61 47 37 28 13
November 15, 2005 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 78 56 42 33 24 10
December 15, 2005 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 73 51 38 30 21 8
January 15, 2006 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 47 34 26 18 5
February 15, 2006 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 42 31 23 15 3
March 15, 2006 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 56 38 27 20 13 2
April 15, 2006 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 34 24 17 10 0
May 15, 2006 ........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 31 21 15 8 0
June 15, 2006 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 27 18 12 7 0
July 15, 2006 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 24 16 10 5 0
August 15, 2006 ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 20 13 8 4 0
September 15, 2006 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 17 11 7 2 0
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CLASS A-3 NOTES CLASS A-4 NOTES
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ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1) ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1)
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PAYMENT DATES 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00% 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00%
- --------- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
October 15, 2006 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 14 8 5 2 0
November 15, 2006 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 11 6 4 1 0
December 15, 2006 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 8 4 2 * 0
January 15, 2007 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 5 3 1 0 0
February 15, 2007 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0
March 15, 2007 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 * 0 0
April 15, 2007 ...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 * 0 0
May 15, 2007 ........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 * 0 0
June 15, 2007 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 * 0 0
July 15, 2007 ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 * * 0 0
August 15, 2007 ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 * * 0 0
September 15, 2007 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 0 0 0
October 15, 2007 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * * 0 0 0
November 15, 2007 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * * 0 0 0
December 15, 2007 ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 * * * 0 0 0
January 15, 2008 .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weighted Average Life
(years) (2) ....... 2.68 2.32 2.12 2.00 1.88 1.73 4.21 3.91 3.68 3.50 3.30 3.00
Weighted Average Life to
Optional Clean-Up Call
(years) (2)(3) .... 4.06 3.71 3.46 3.29 3.12 2.83
Optional Clean-Up Call Date 07/15/06 03/15/06 12/15/05 10/15/05 08/15/05 04/15/05
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(1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (i) multiplying the
amount of each principal payment of such note by the number of years from
the date of the issuance of the note to the payment date on which it is
made, (ii) adding the results and (iii) dividing the sum by the initial
principal amount of such note.
(2) An asterisk "*" means a percent of initial note principal balance of more
than zero and less than 0.5%.
(3)This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the motor vehicle loans on
the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so.
THE ABS TABLES HAVE BEEN PREPARED BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS DESCRIBED ABOVE
(INCLUDING THE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS WHICH WILL DIFFER FROM THE ACTUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS) AND SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION
THEREWITH.
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PERCENTAGE OF INITIAL CERTIFICATE BALANCE AT VARIOUS ABS PERCENTAGES
CERTIFICATES
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ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1)
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PAYMENT DATES 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00%
- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
Closing Date ............ 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2002 .......... 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2002 ............ 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2002 ........... 100 100 100 100 100 100
July 15, 2002 ........... 100 100 100 100 100 100
August 15, 2002 ......... 100 100 100 100 100 100
September 15, 2002 ...... 100 100 100 100 100 100
October 15, 2002 ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100
November 15, 2002 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 100
December 15, 2002 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 100
January 15, 2003 ........ 100 100 100 100 100 100
February 15, 2003 ....... 100 100 100 100 100 100
March 15, 2003 .......... 100 100 100 100 100 100
April 15, 2003 .......... 100 100 100 100 100 100
May 15, 2003 ............ 100 100 100 100 100 100
June 15, 2003 ........... 100 100 100 100 100 95
July 15, 2003 ........... 100 100 100 100 97 90
August 15, 2003 ......... 100 100 100 97 93 86
September 15, 2003 ...... 100 100 98 93 88 81
October 15, 2003 ........ 100 100 94 89 84 77
November 15, 2003 ....... 100 97 90 85 80 72
December 15, 2003 ....... 100 94 86 81 76 68
January 15, 2004 ........ 100 90 82 77 72 64
February 15, 2004 ....... 99 86 78 73 68 60
March 15, 2004 .......... 96 83 75 69 64 56
April 15, 2004 .......... 93 79 71 66 60 52
May 15, 2004 ............ 90 76 68 62 57 48
June 15, 2004 ........... 87 73 65 59 53 45
July 15, 2004 ........... 83 70 61 56 50 42
August 15, 2004 ......... 80 66 58 52 47 38
September 15, 2004 ...... 77 63 55 49 44 35
October 15, 2004 ........ 74 60 52 46 41 32
November 15, 2004 ....... 71 57 49 43 38 29
December 15, 2004 ....... 68 54 46 40 35 26
January 15, 2005 ........ 65 51 43 38 32 24
February 15, 2005 ....... 62 48 40 35 29 21
March 15, 2005 .......... 59 46 38 32 27 19
April 15, 2005 .......... 56 43 35 30 25 17
May 15, 2005 ............ 53 40 33 28 22 15
June 15, 2005 ........... 50 38 30 25 20 13
July 15, 2005 ........... 48 35 28 23 18 11
August 15, 2005 ......... 45 33 26 21 16 9
September 15, 2005 ...... 42 31 24 19 15 8
October 15, 2005 ........ 39 28 22 17 13 6
November 15, 2005 ....... 37 26 20 16 11 5
December 15, 2005 ....... 34 24 18 14 10 4
January 15, 2006 ........ 31 22 16 12 8 2
February 15, 2006 ....... 29 20 14 11 7 2
March 15, 2006 .......... 26 18 13 9 6 1
April 15, 2006 .......... 24 16 11 8 5 0
May 15, 2006 ............ 22 14 10 7 4 0
June 15, 2006 ........... 19 13 9 6 3 0
July 15, 2006 ........... 17 11 7 5 2 0
August 15, 2006 ......... 15 9 6 4 2 0
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CERTIFICATES
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ASSUMED ABS PERCENTAGE (1)
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PAYMENT DATES 0.50% 1.00% 1.30% 1.50% 1.70% 2.00%
- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
September 15, 2006 .............. 13 8 5 3 1 0
October 15, 2006 ................ 10 6 4 2 1 0
November 15, 2006 ............... 8 5 3 2 * 0
December 15, 2006 ............... 6 4 2 1 * 0
January 15, 2007 ................ 4 2 1 1 0 0
February 15, 2007 ............... 2 1 1 * 0 0
March 15, 2007 .................. 2 1 * * 0 0
April 15, 2007 .................. 1 1 * * 0 0
May 15, 2007 .................... 1 1 * * 0 0
June 15, 2007 ................... 1 1 * * 0 0
July 15, 2007 ................... 1 * * * 0 0
August 15, 2007 ................. 1 * * * 0 0
September 15, 2007 .............. 1 * * 0 0 0
October 15, 2007 ................ * * * 0 0 0
November 15, 2007 ............... * * * 0 0 0
December 15, 2007 ............... * * * 0 0 0
January 15, 2008 ................ 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weighted Average Life ...........
(years) (2) ..................... 3.39 3.06 2.85 2.70 2.54 2.32
Weighted Average Life to
Optional Clean-Up Call
(years) (2)(3) ................ 3.32 2.97 2.75 2.60 2.46 2.24
Optional Clean-Up Call Date ..... 07/15/06 03/15/06 12/15/05 10/15/05 08/15/05 04/15/05
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(1) The weighted average life of a certificate is determined by (i) multiplying
the amount of each principal payment of such certificate by the number of
years from the date of the issuance of such certificate to the payment date
on which it is made, (ii) adding the results and (iii) dividing the sum by
the initial principal balance of such certificate.
(2) An asterisk "*" means a percent of initial certificate balance of more than
zero and less than 0.5%.
(3) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the motor vehicle loans on
the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so.
THE ABS TABLES HAVE BEEN PREPARED BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS DESCRIBED ABOVE
(INCLUDING THE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS WHICH WILL DIFFER FROM THE ACTUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS) AND SHOULD BE READ IN CONJUNCTION
THEREWITH.
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THE NOTES
GENERAL
The trust will issue the notes under an indenture between the trust and
Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association, as indenture trustee. The
corporate trust offices of the indenture trustee are located at Sixth Street and
Marquette Avenue, MAC N9311-161, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479-0070, telephone
(612) 667-8058. Chase USA and its affiliates may have normal banking
relationships with the indenture trustee and its affiliates.
We will file a copy of the indenture in its execution form with the SEC
after the trust issues the notes. We summarize below some of the most important
terms of the notes. This summary is not a complete description of all the
provisions of the notes and the indenture. The following summary supplements the
description of the general terms and provisions of the notes of any trust and
the related indenture in the sections of the prospectus entitled "Certain
Information Regarding the Securities" and "The Indenture." We refer you to those
sections.
PAYMENTS OF INTEREST
Interest on the principal balances of each class of notes will accrue at
the related per annum interest rate shown on the cover page of this prospectus
supplement and will be payable to the noteholders monthly on each payment date,
commencing April 15, 2002.
CALCULATION OF INTEREST PAYABLE. Interest on the outstanding principal
amount of each class of notes will accrue and shall be calculated as follows:
ACTUAL/360. Interest on the Class A-1 notes will accrue from and including
the prior payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment
date) to but excluding the current payment date and be calculated on the basis
of actual days elapsed and a 360-day year.
30/360. Interest on the Class A-2 notes, Class A-3 notes and Class A-4
notes will accrue from and including the 15th day of the calendar month
preceding the payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first
payment date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month of that
payment date and be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months.
INTEREST ON UNPAID INTEREST. Interest on any note that is not paid on a
payment date will be due on the next payment date, together with interest on
that amount at the applicable interest rate, to the extent lawful.
PRIORITY OF INTEREST PAYMENTS. Interest payments on all classes of notes
will have the same priority. If on any payment date the trust has insufficient
funds to make a full payment of interest on the notes, the trust will apply the
funds available to pay interest on the notes ratably, based upon the aggregate
amount of interest payable on each class of notes.
FUNDS AVAILABLE TO PAY INTEREST. The trust will pay interest on the notes
on each payment date from collections on the motor vehicle loans received during
the prior calendar month and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account for that
payment date less the portion of those amounts applied to the payment of the
servicing fee and the administration fee.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY OF INTEREST PAYMENTS ON THE
NOTES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "PAYMENTS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS."
PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL
CALCULATION OF PRINCIPAL PAYABLE. The trust will pay the principal of the
notes on each payment date in an amount generally equal to the lesser of the
amount available to pay the principal of the notes and
o 100% of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for that payment date until the
Class A-2 notes have been paid in full and
o the NOTE PERCENTAGE of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for each payment
date thereafter (or, in the case of the payment date on which the Class
A-2 notes are paid in full, the NOTE PERCENTAGE of the remaining amount
of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT) until all of the notes have been
paid in full
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unless
o the balance in the reserve account on that payment date would drop below
0.50% of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of
the cutoff date, after giving effect to any withdrawals from the reserve
account on that payment date, in which case, the targeted amount of
principal payable to the noteholders will be 100% of the PRINCIPAL
DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for that payment date and each payment date
thereafter until the notes have been paid in full or the balance in the
reserve account equals or exceeds the required amount
or
o the maturity of the notes has been accelerated after the occurrence of an
event of default, in which case, the targeted amount of principal payable
to the noteholders will be 100% of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for
each payment date until the notes have been paid in full.
The NOTE PERCENTAGE will equal the percentage equivalent of a fraction the
numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of the Class A-3 notes and
the Class A-4 notes on the date the Class A-2 notes are paid in full and the
denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Class
A-3 notes and the Class A-4 notes and the CERTIFICATE BALANCE on the date the
Class A-2 notes are paid in full.
The PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for each payment date will generally
equal the sum of
o the principal collections on the motor vehicle loans received during the
prior calendar month and
o the aggregate principal balance of all motor vehicle loans designated as
"defaulted receivables" during that calendar month, net of liquidation
proceeds allocable to principal received during that month in respect of
motor vehicle loans designated as "defaulted receivables" during prior
months.
The precise definition of PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT is set forth in the
section of this prospectus supplement entitled "Glossary of Terms." We refer you
to that definition.
A motor vehicle loan will be designated as a "defaulted receivable" when
the servicer determines, based on its usual collection practices and procedures,
that eventual payment in full of the motor vehicle loan is unlikely or when at
least 10% of a scheduled payment is 240 or more days delinquent.
The amount of the principal of the notes payable on the final scheduled
payment date for any class of notes will equal the amount needed to repay the
principal amount of that class of notes in full.
If the full targeted amount of principal payable to the noteholders on any
payment date is not paid, the shortfall will be included in the amount of
principal payable to the noteholders on the next payment date.
PRIORITY OF PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS PRIOR TO ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES. The
trust will pay the principal of the notes in the following order of priority:
o the Class A-1 notes until they are paid in full,
o the Class A-2 notes until they are paid in full,
o the Class A-3 notes until they are paid in full and
o the Class A-4 notes until they are paid in full.
PRIORITY OF PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS AFTER ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES. After an
acceleration of the maturity of the notes following an event of default, the
trust will pay the principal of Class A-1 notes until the Class A-1 notes are
paid in full and then the other classes of notes ratably, based upon the
outstanding principal amount of each such class of notes.
FUNDS AVAILABLE TO PAY PRINCIPAL. The trust will pay the principal of the
notes on each payment date from collections on the motor vehicle loans received
during the prior calendar month and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account
for that payment date less the portion of those amounts applied to the payment
of the servicing fee, the administration fee, interest on the notes and interest
distributions in respect of the certificates. If the maturity of the notes has
been accelerated following an event of default resulting from a payment default,
the trust will not make any distributions in respect of interest on the
certificates until after the notes have been paid in full.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY OF PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS ON
THE NOTES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "PAYMENTS
AND DISTRIBUTIONS."
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The trust's failure to pay principal of the notes of any class on any
payment date will not be an event of default until the final scheduled payment
date for that class of notes.
NOTES MIGHT NOT BE PAID IN FULL ON THEIR FINAL SCHEDULED PAYMENT DATES. The
principal amount of any class of notes if not previously paid will be due on the
final scheduled payment date relating to that class shown on the cover page of
this prospectus supplement. The actual date on which the outstanding principal
amount of any class of notes is paid may be earlier or later than the final
scheduled payment date for that class of notes based on a variety of factors,
including those described in the sections of this prospectus supplement and the
prospectus entitled "Weighted Average Life of the Securities."
PREPAYMENT
The servicer may purchase the motor vehicle loans on any payment date after
the Class A-1 notes, the Class A-2 notes and the Class A-3 notes have been paid
in full on which the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans has
declined to 10% or less of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle
loans as of the cutoff date. If the servicer purchases the motor vehicle loans,
the trust will prepay the Class A-4 notes in full.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RIGHT OF THE SERVICER TO PURCHASE
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "THE
TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS-TERMINATION."
THE CERTIFICATES
GENERAL
The trust will issue the certificates under the trust agreement. We will
file a copy of the trust agreement with the SEC after the trust issues the
certificates. We summarize below some of the most important terms of the
certificates. This summary is not a complete description of all the provisions
of the trust agreement and the certificates. The following summary is a
supplement to the description of the general terms and provisions of the
certificates of any given trust and the related trust agreement in the sections
of the prospectus entitled "Certain Information Regarding the Securities" and
"The Transfer and Servicing Agreements." We refer you to those sections.
DISTRIBUTIONS OF INTEREST
On each payment date, commencing on April 15, 2002, the certificateholders
will be entitled to receive the amount of interest that accrues on the
CERTIFICATE BALANCE at the pass-through rate shown on the cover page of this
prospectus supplement.
CALCULATION OF INTEREST ACCRUAL. Interest in respect of the certificates
will accrue from and including the 15th day of the calendar month preceding the
payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but
excluding the 15th day of the calendar month of that payment date and be
calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
INTEREST ON UNPAID INTEREST. Interest in respect of any certificate that is
not distributed on a payment date will be due on the next payment date, together
with interest on that amount at the pass-through rate, to the extent lawful.
FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR INTEREST DISTRIBUTIONS; SUBORDINATION. The trust will
make interest distributions in respect of the certificates on each payment date
from collections on the motor vehicle loans received during the prior calendar
month and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account for that payment date less
the portion of those amounts applied to the payment of the servicing fee, the
administration fee and interest on the notes. If the maturity of the notes has
been accelerated following an event of default resulting from a payment default,
the trust will not make any distributions in respect of interest on the
certificates until after the notes have been paid in full.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY OF INTEREST DISTRIBUTIONS
IN RESPECT OF THE CERTIFICATES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS."
DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRINCIPAL
CALCULATION OF PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTABLE. On the payment date on which the
trust pays the Class A-2 notes in full and on each payment date thereafter until
the notes have been paid in full, the trust will distribute principal in respect
of the certificates in an amount equal to the lesser of
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o the amount available to the trust to make distributions of principal in
respect of the certificates and
o the CERTIFICATE PERCENTAGE of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT (or, in
the case of the payment date on which the Class A-2 notes are paid in
full, the CERTIFICATE PERCENTAGE of the remaining amount of the PRINCIPAL
DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT)
unless
o the balance in the reserve account on that payment date would drop below
0.50% of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of
the cutoff date, after giving effect to any withdrawals from the reserve
account on that payment date, in which case, the trust will not
distribute principal in respect of the certificates until the notes have
been paid in full or the balance in the reserve account equals or exceeds
the required amount
or
o the maturity of the notes has been accelerated after the occurrence of an
event of default, in which case, the trust will not distribute principal
in respect of the certificates until the notes have been paid in full.
On each payment date after the notes have been paid in full, the trust will
distribute principal in respect of the certificates in an amount equal to the
lesser of
o the amount available to the trust to make distributions of principal in
respect of the certificates and
o 100% of the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT (or, in the case of the payment
date on which the notes are paid in full, 100% of the remaining amount of
the PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT).
In addition, the amount of principal distributable in respect of the
certificates on the final scheduled payment date for the certificates will equal
the amount needed to reduce the CERTIFICATE BALANCE to zero.
If the full targeted amount of principal distributable to the
certificateholders on any payment date is not distributed, the shortfall will be
included in the amount of principal distributable to the certificateholders on
the next payment date.
The CERTIFICATE PERCENTAGE will equal 100% minus the NOTE PERCENTAGE.
The CERTIFICATE BALANCE will be reduced on each payment date by
o distributions in respect of principal to the certificateholders and
o the amount that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the notes
and the CERTIFICATE BALANCE exceeds the aggregate principal balance of
the motor vehicle loans as of the last day of the prior month,
and increased on any payment date by the amount of principal distributed in
respect of the certificates on that payment date relating to any prior non-cash
reductions.
FUNDS AVAILABLE TO DISTRIBUTE PRINCIPAL; SUBORDINATION. The trust will
distribute principal in respect of the certificates on each payment date from
collections on the motor vehicle loans received during the prior calendar month
and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account for that payment date less the
portion of those amounts applied to the payment of the servicing fee, the
administration fee, interest on the notes, interest distributions in respect of
the certificates and principal of the notes. If the maturity of the notes has
been accelerated following an event of default, the trust will not make any
distributions of principal in respect of the certificates until after the notes
have been paid in full.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY OF PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTIONS
IN RESPECT OF THE CERTIFICATES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS."
CERTIFICATE BALANCE MIGHT NOT BE REDUCED TO ZERO ON ITS FINAL SCHEDULED
PAYMENT DATE. The trust is required to reduce the CERTIFICATE BALANCE to zero on
the final scheduled payment date of the certificates shown on the cover page of
this prospectus supplement. The actual date on which the CERTIFICATE BALANCE is
reduced to zero may be earlier or later than the final scheduled payment date
for the certificates based on a variety of factors, including those described in
the sections of this prospectus supplement and the prospectus entitled "Weighted
Average Life of the Securities."
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PREPAYMENT
The servicer may purchase the motor vehicle loans on any payment date after
the Class A-1 notes, the Class A-2 notes and the Class A-3 notes have been paid
in full on which the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans has
declined to 10% or less of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle
loans as of the cutoff date. If the servicer purchases the motor vehicle loans,
the trust will distribute to certificateholders an amount equal to the
CERTIFICATE BALANCE together with accrued and unpaid interest at the
pass-through rate.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RIGHT OF THE SERVICER TO PURCHASE
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "THE
TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS-TERMINATION."
RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
Purchasers of certificates and their assignees will be deemed to represent
that the beneficial owners of such certificates are not FOREIGN INVESTORS.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF
THE CERTIFICATES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED
"MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES."
PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
SOURCE OF FUNDS
The funds available to the trust to pay expenses and make payments on the
securities on each payment date will equal the sum of the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION
AMOUNT for that payment date and any funds withdrawn from the reserve account
for that payment date.
The TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for each payment date will generally consist
of the following:
o collections received on the motor vehicle loans during the prior calendar
month, including net recoveries on motor vehicle loans that were charged
off as losses in prior months and
o proceeds of repurchases of motor vehicle loans by the seller or purchases
of motor vehicle loans by the servicer.
The precise definition of TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT is set forth in the
section of this prospectus supplement entitled "Glossary of Terms." We refer you
to that definition.
In general, the servicer will be permitted to retain collections on the
motor vehicle loans until the business day prior to each payment date. On that
business day, the servicer will cause all collections on the motor vehicle loans
and other amounts constituting the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for the payment
date to be deposited in the collection account, together with any funds required
to be withdrawn by the indenture trustee from the reserve account for the
payment date. FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE SERVICER
WOULD BE REQUIRED TO DEPOSIT COLLECTIONS ON THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS WITHIN 48
HOURS OF RECEIPT, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "THE TRANSFER
AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS--SERVICING--COLLECTIONS."
PRIORITY OF PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
PRIOR TO ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES FOLLOWING A PAYMENT DEFAULT. On each
payment date, the trust will apply the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT and any funds
withdrawn from the reserve account to make payments and distributions in the
following order of priority:
o to the servicer, the servicing fee for the prior month and all unpaid
servicing fees for prior months,
o to the administrator, the administration fee for the prior month and all
unpaid administration fees for prior months,
o ratably to the holders of each class of notes, interest due on all the
notes on that payment date,
o to the holders of the certificates, interest distributable in respect of
the certificates on that payment date,
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o to the noteholders, the amount of the principal of the notes payable on
that payment date as described in the section of this prospectus
supplement entitled "The Notes---Payments of Principal,"
o to the certificateholders, the amount of principal distributable in
respect of the certificates on that payment date as described in the
section of this prospectus supplement entitled "The
Certificates--Distributions of Principal" and
o to the reserve account, any remaining portion of the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION
AMOUNT.
AFTER ACCELERATION OF THE NOTES FOLLOWING A PAYMENT DEFAULT. On each
payment date after the maturity of the notes has been accelerated following an
event of default resulting from a payment default, the trust will apply the
TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT and any funds withdrawn from the reserve account to
make payments and distributions in the following order of priority:
o to the servicer, the servicing fee for the prior month and all unpaid
servicing fees for other prior months,
o to the administrator, the administration fee for the prior month and all
unpaid administration fees for other prior months,
o ratably to the holders of each class of notes, interest due on all the
notes on that payment date,
o to the noteholders, the outstanding principal amount of the notes,
o to the holders of the certificates, interest distributable in respect of
the certificates on that payment date,
o to the certificateholders, the CERTIFICATE BALANCE and
o to the reserve account, any remaining portion of the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION
AMOUNT.
WITHDRAWALS FROM RESERVE ACCOUNT. The indenture trustee will withdraw funds
from the reserve account, to the extent that funds are available for withdrawal,
in respect of any payment date for which the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT is
insufficient to pay the servicing fee, the administration fee, principal and
interest payable to the noteholders and principal and interest distributable in
respect of the certificates. In no event will investment earnings on funds on
deposit in the reserve account be available for withdrawal to pay these amounts.
THE TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS
We have summarized below some of the important terms of the sale and
servicing agreement, the trust agreement and the administration agreement. A
form of each of these agreements has been filed as an exhibit to the
registration statement of which the attached prospectus forms a part. We will
file a copy of each of these agreements with the SEC after we issue the
securities. This summary is not a complete description of these agreements. The
following summary supplements the description of the general terms and
provisions of these agreements set forth in the prospectus.
TRUST ACCOUNTS
The trust will establish a collection account and the reserve account in
the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the noteholders and the
certificateholders. The servicer will establish a distribution account for the
noteholders in the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the
noteholders. The trustee will establish a distribution account for the
certificateholders in the name of the trustee for the benefit of the
certificateholders. Each of these accounts will be treated as a trust account as
described in the section of the prospectus entitled "The Transfer and Servicing
Agreements--Trust Accounts."
Each of the collection account, the note distribution account and the
certificate distribution account will be initially established in the trust
department of JPMorgan Chase Bank. JPMorgan Chase Bank acting as the paying
agent at the direction of the servicer will have the right to withdraw funds
from those accounts for the purpose of making distributions to securityholders.
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SERVICING COMPENSATION
The servicer will be entitled to receive a servicing fee for each month
payable on the following payment date. The servicing fee for each month will
equal the sum of
o the product of 1/12 of 1% and the aggregate principal balance of the
motor vehicle loans as of the last day of the prior month (or, in the
case of the first payment date, as of the cutoff date) and
o any late charges, credit-related extension fees or other administrative
fees or similar charges allowed by applicable law collected by the
servicer during that month.
In addition, the servicer will be entitled to receive investment earnings, net
of losses and investment expenses, on funds deposited in the collection account.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE SERVICER,
REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "THE TRANSFER AND SERVICING
AGREEMENTS-SERVICING-SERVICING COMPENSATION AND PAYMENT OF EXPENSES."
SERVICING PROCEDURES
The servicer will service the motor vehicle loans and will be obligated to
make reasonable efforts to collect all payments due with respect to the motor
vehicle loans. The servicer will be obligated to follow collection and servicing
procedures consistent with the procedures it follows with respect to comparable
motor vehicle loans that it services for itself and with prudent industry
standards. In addition, the sale and servicing agreement will provide that the
servicer may not
o change the amount of any motor vehicle loan, other than allowing a
prepayment of a scheduled payment that does not result in a deferral of
any other scheduled payment,
o decrease the contract rate of any motor vehicle loan or
o extend any motor vehicle loan beyond the final scheduled payment date for
the certificates.
If the servicer fails to comply with the terms of the sale and servicing
agreement and such failure materially and adversely affects the interests of the
securityholders in a motor vehicle loan, the servicer will be required to
purchase the affected motor vehicle loan at a price equal to the unpaid
principal balance owed by the obligor plus interest at the contract rate of
interest through the last day of the month of repurchase. The purchase
obligation will constitute the sole remedy available to the securityholders, the
trust or the indenture trustee for any such uncured breach.
Chase USA offers certain obligors or classes of obligors on an annual basis
a one-month noncredit related extension of a regularly scheduled payment
otherwise due under a motor vehicle loan. The sale and servicing agreement will
establish criteria governing those extensions.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICING PROCEDURES, REFER TO THE
SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "THE TRANSFER AND SERVICING
AGREEMENTS--SERVICING--SERVICING PROCEDURES."
RESERVE ACCOUNT
FUNDING OF RESERVE ACCOUNT. The trust will establish the reserve account in
the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the noteholders and
certificateholders. The trust will fund the reserve account on the closing date
by making an initial deposit in an amount equal to 0.75% of the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the cutoff date), which is
less than the SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE. The reserve account will
thereafter be funded on each payment date with the portion of the TOTAL
DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT remaining after the payment of the servicing fee, the
administration fee, interest and principal payable to the noteholders and
interest and principal distributable in respect of the certificates as described
in the section of this prospectus supplement entitled "Payments and
Distributions."
WITHDRAWALS FROM RESERVE ACCOUNT. The indenture trustee will withdraw funds
from the reserve account and deposit them into the collection account under the
circumstances described in the section of this prospectus supplement entitled
"Payments and Distributions."
On each payment date, the indenture trustee will withdraw from the reserve
account and pay to the holder of the Class R certificates all investment
earnings on funds on deposit in the reserve account earned since the prior
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payment date and any amounts on deposit in the reserve account, after giving
effect to deposits and withdrawals made on that payment date, in excess of the
SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE on that payment date.
The SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE on each payment date will equal 2.00%
of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the last day
of the second preceding calendar month, but in any event will not be less than
the lesser of
o an amount equal to 0.75% of the aggregate principal balance of the motor
vehicle loans as of the cutoff date and
o the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the last
day of the second preceding calendar month;
provided, that the SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE will be calculated using a
percentage of 4.00% on any payment date for which the AVERAGE NET LOSS RATIO
exceeds 1.75% or the AVERAGE DELINQUENCY PERCENTAGE exceeds 1.75%. If the seller
desires to reduce the SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE to a lesser amount and
requests the rating agencies to confirm that such reduction in the SPECIFIED
RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE will not adversely affect the ratings of any of the
notes or the certificates and the rating agencies confirm that the reduction
will not adversely affect the ratings of the securities issued by the trust, the
seller will reduce the SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE to a lesser amount.
FUNDS IN THE RESERVE ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED. Amounts in the reserve
account are intended to enhance the likelihood of receipt by securityholders of
the full amount of principal and interest payable to them and to decrease the
likelihood that the securityholders will experience losses. However, the amount
in the reserve account is limited and the reserve account could be depleted. If
the amount required to be withdrawn from the reserve account to cover shortfalls
in collections on the motor vehicle loans exceeds the amount of available cash
in the reserve account, noteholders or certificateholders could incur losses or
a temporary shortfall in the amounts distributed to them could result. Delays in
payments could increase the average life of the notes or the certificates.
Shortfalls in collections on the motor vehicle loans may result from, among
other things, losses on the motor vehicle loans or the failure by the servicer
to make any remittance under the sale and servicing agreement.
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank, as the administrator, will enter into an
administration agreement with the trust and the indenture trustee pursuant to
which it will agree to perform certain administrative functions on behalf of the
trust. The administrator will be entitled to receive an administration fee of
$1,000 per month payable on the following payment date.
Under the administration agreement the administrator may act directly or
through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of
them. The administrator will not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of its
agents or attorneys if the administrator selected those agents or attorneys with
due care.
Chase USA will enter into an agreement with the administrator pursuant to
which it will agree to perform certain of the duties of the administrator and to
reimburse and indemnify the administrator for all expenses or liabilities the
administrator may incur as a result of the administrator's entering into the
administration agreement.
MONEY MARKET ELIGIBILITY
The Class A-1 notes will be eligible securities for purchase by money
market funds under paragraph (a)(10) of Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES
The following is a general summary of the material U.S. federal income tax
considerations that may be relevant to the purchase, ownership and disposition
of the notes and the certificates by an investor who purchases the notes or the
certificates pursuant to their original issuance at their original issue price.
This summary is based upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the
Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, administrative rulings or
pronouncements and judicial decisions, all as in effect on the date hereof and
all of which are subject to change, possibly retroactively. The following
discussion does not deal with all aspects of U.S. federal income
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taxation, nor does it address U.S. federal income tax consequences that may be
relevant to certain types of investors, such as financial institutions,
insurance companies, dealers in securities or currencies, tax-exempt
organizations, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts,
persons who hold the notes or certificates as part of a hedging, integrated or
conversion transaction, constructive sale or straddle, traders in securities
that have elected to mark their securities holdings to market or persons whose
functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, who may be subject to special
treatment under the tax code. In addition, the following discussion does not
address the alternative minimum tax consequences of an investment in the notes
or the certificates or the consequences of such an investment under state and
local tax laws or foreign tax laws. Prospective investors should note that no
rulings have been or will be sought from the IRS with respect to any of the U.S.
federal income tax consequences discussed in this prospectus and opinions of
counsel are not binding on the IRS or the courts. Thus, we can give you no
assurance that the IRS will not take positions contrary to those described
below. The opinions of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, special counsel to Chase USA,
described in this prospectus supplement will be based upon certain
representations and assumptions, including, but not limited to, the assumption
that all relevant parties will comply with the terms of the trust agreement and
related documents.
This summary is intended as an explanatory discussion of the possible
effects of the classification of the trust as a partnership for U.S. federal
income tax purposes for investors generally and related tax matters affecting
investors generally, but does not purport to furnish information in the level of
detail or with the attention to the investor's specific tax circumstances that
would be provided by an investor's own tax advisor. Accordingly, investors
should consult their own tax advisors to determine the federal, state, local,
and other tax consequences that may be relevant to their purchase, ownership and
disposition of the notes or the certificates based upon their particular facts
and circumstances.
If a partnership holds notes or certificates, the tax treatment of a
partner will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities
of the partnership. A noteholder or certificateholder that is a partner of a
partnership holding notes or certificates should consult its own tax advisor.
For purposes of the following discussion, except as otherwise provided
herein, the terms "noteholder" and "certificateholder" refer, respectively, to
the beneficial owner of a note or certificate. In addition, the discussion below
assumes that noteholders and certificateholders will hold their notes and
certificates as "capital assets" within the meaning of Section 1221 of the tax
code. As used herein, a "U.S. noteholder" or "U.S. certificateholder" means a
holder that is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
o a citizen or resident of the United States,
o a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of
the United States or any political subdivision thereof,
o an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation
regardless of its source or
o a trust if (a) it is subject to the primary supervision of a court within
the United States and one or more United States persons has the authority
to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (b) it has a valid
election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be
treated as a United States person.
A "non-U.S. noteholder" or "non-U.S. certificateholder" is a holder that is not
a U.S. noteholder or U.S. certificateholder.
TAX CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TRUST
In the opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the trust will not be
classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation. This opinion is based on, among other things, certain facts and
assumptions contained in such opinion and counsel's conclusion, based in part
upon a representation of Chase USA, that the nature of the trust's income
exempts it from the rule that certain publicly traded partnerships are taxable
as corporations.
Chase USA and the certificateholders, by their purchase of certificates,
will agree to treat the trust as a partnership for all U.S. tax purposes with
the assets of such partnership being the assets held by the trust (including the
reserve account and all investment earnings thereon), the partners of the
partnership being the certificateholders
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and Chase USA, and the notes being debt of the partnership. However, the proper
characterization of the arrangement involving the trust, the certificateholders,
the noteholders and Chase USA is not clear.
A variety of alternative characterizations are possible under which the tax
consequences would differ. For example, because the certificates have certain
features characteristic of debt, the certificates might be considered debt of
Chase USA or the trust. The following discussion assumes that, for U.S. federal
income tax purposes, (i) the trust is properly classified as a partnership
(other than a publicly traded partnership), (ii) the notes will be treated as
debt of this partnership and (iii) the certificates represent equity interests
in the partnership.
TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NOTEHOLDERS
TREATMENT OF THE NOTES AS INDEBTEDNESS. The trust and the noteholders, by
their purchase of the notes, agree to treat the notes as debt for all U.S.
federal, state and local tax purposes. In the opinion of Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett, the notes will be characterized as debt for U.S. federal income tax
purposes. The discussion below assumes this characterization of the notes is
correct.
INTEREST INCOME ON THE NOTES. It is anticipated that the notes will be sold
at no more than the statutorily defined de minimis discount (i.e., 1/4% of the
principal amount of a note multiplied by its weighted average to maturity) from
their stated principal amount. In such case, the notes will not be considered to
have been issued with original issue discount, or OID, in excess of the
statutorily defined de minimis amount. The stated interest thereon will be
taxable to a noteholder as ordinary interest income at the time it is received
or accrued in accordance with such noteholder's method of tax accounting. Under
the applicable Treasury regulations, a holder of a note issued with a de minimis
amount of OID must include gain attributable to such OID in income, on a pro
rata basis, as principal payments are made on the note.
SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION. If a noteholder sells or otherwise disposes of a
note in a taxable transaction, the former noteholder will recognize capital gain
or loss in an amount equal to the difference between the amount realized on such
sale or other disposition (less an amount equal to any accrued but unpaid
interest which will be treated as a payment of interest) and the noteholder's
adjusted tax basis in the note. The long-term capital gains of individuals
generally are eligible for reduced rates of taxation. Capital losses generally
may be used only to offset capital gains.
NON-U.S. NOTEHOLDERS. Under present U.S. federal income tax law, and
subject to the discussion below concerning backup withholding:
(a) no withholding of U.S. federal income tax will be required with respect
to the payment by the trust of principal or interest on a note owned by a
non-U.S. noteholder, provided that the beneficial owner of the note (i) is not
actually or constructively a "10-percent shareholder" of the trust (including a
holder of 10% or more of the trust's outstanding certificates) or Chase USA,
(ii) is not a "controlled foreign corporation" with respect to which the trust
or Chase USA is a "related person" within the meaning of the tax code, (iii) is
not a bank whose receipt of interest on a note is described in Section
881(c)(3)(A) of the tax code and (iv) satisfies the statement requirement
(described generally below) set forth in Section 871(h) and Section 881(c) of
the tax code and the regulations thereunder; and
(b) no withholding of U.S. federal income tax generally will be required
with respect to any gain realized by a non-U.S. noteholder upon the sale,
exchange or retirement of a note provided that, in the case of any gain
representing accrued interest, the conditions described in (a) above are
satisfied.
To satisfy the requirement referred to in (a)(iv) above, the beneficial
owner of a note, or a financial institution holding the note on behalf of such
owner, must provide, in accordance with specified procedures, the entity that
would otherwise be required to withhold U.S. taxes with a statement to the
effect that the beneficial owner is not a U.S. person. These requirements will
be met if (i) the beneficial owner provides the name and address of the
beneficial owner, and certifies, under penalties of perjury, that the beneficial
owner is not a "U.S. person" (which certification may be made on an IRS Form
W-8BEN or a successor form), or (ii) a beneficial owner holds the notes through
certain foreign intermediaries and satisfies the certification requirements of
applicable U.S. Treasury regulations. Special certification and other rules
apply to certain non-U.S. noteholders that are pass-through entities rather than
individuals.
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If a non-U.S. noteholder cannot satisfy the requirements of the "portfolio
interest" exception described in (a) above, payments of premium, if any, and
interest (including OID) made to a non-U.S. noteholder with respect to a note
will be subject to a 30% U.S. withholding tax unless the beneficial owner of the
note provides the U.S. entity otherwise required to withhold U.S. taxes with a
properly executed (i) IRS Form W-8BEN (or successor form) claiming an exemption
from, or reduction in the rate of, withholding under the benefit of an
applicable tax treaty or (ii) IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form) stating that
the interest paid on the note is not subject to U.S. withholding tax because
such interest income is effectively connected with the beneficial owner's
conduct of a trade or business in the United States.
If a non-U.S. noteholder is engaged in a trade or business in the United
States and interest on a note is effectively connected with the conduct of such
trade or business, the non-U.S. noteholder, although exempt from the U.S.
withholding tax discussed above (provided the certification requirements are
satisfied), will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on such interest on a net
income basis in the same manner as if it were a U.S. noteholder. In addition, if
such non-U.S. noteholder is a foreign corporation, it may be subject to a branch
profits tax equal to 30% (or lesser rate under an applicable tax treaty) of its
effectively connected earnings and profits for the taxable year, subject to
adjustments.
Any gain realized by a non-U.S. noteholder upon the sale, exchange or
retirement of a note generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax
unless (i) such gain is effectively connected with a trade or business conducted
by the non-U.S. noteholder in the United States or (ii) in the case of gain
recognized by a non-U.S. noteholder who is an individual, such individual is
present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of such
sale, exchange or retirement, and certain other conditions are met.
Special rules may apply to certain non-U.S. noteholders, such as
"controlled foreign corporations", "passive foreign investment companies",
"foreign personal holding companies" and certain U.S. expatriates, that are
subject to special treatment under the tax code. Such non-U.S. noteholders
should consult their own tax advisors to determine the U.S. federal, state and
local and other tax consequences that may be relevant to their decision to
purchase notes.
INFORMATION REPORTING AND BACKUP WITHHOLDING. In general, information
reporting requirements will apply to payments of principal, interest and
premium, if any, paid on the notes and to the proceeds from the sale of a note
paid to U.S. noteholders, other than certain exempt recipients (such as
corporations). A U.S. backup withholding tax will apply to such payments if the
noteholder fails to provide a taxpayer identification number or certification of
foreign or other exempt status or fails to report in full dividend and interest
income.
No information reporting or backup withholding will be required with
respect to payments made by the trust to a non-U.S. noteholder if a statement
described in (a)(iv) above under the section entitled "Non-U.S. Noteholders" has
been received by the entity otherwise required to withhold U.S. taxes and such
entity does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that the beneficial
owner is a U.S. person.
In addition, backup withholding and information reporting will not apply if
payments of principal, interest or premium (if any) on a note are paid or
collected by a foreign office of a custodian, nominee or other foreign agent on
behalf of the beneficial owner of such note, or if a foreign office of a broker
(as defined in applicable Treasury regulations) pays the proceeds from the sale
of a note to the owner thereof. If, however, such nominee, custodian, agent or
broker is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a U.S. person, a controlled
foreign corporation or a foreign person that derives 50% or more of its gross
income for certain periods from the conduct of a trade or business in the United
States, or, if such nominee, custodian, agent or broker is a foreign
partnership, in which one or more U.S. persons, in the aggregate, own more than
50% of the income or capital interests in the partnership or if the partnership
is engaged in a trade or business in the United States, such payments will not
be subject to backup withholding but will be subject to information reporting,
unless (i) such custodian, nominee, agent or broker has documentary evidence in
its records that the beneficial owner is not a U.S. person and certain other
conditions are met or (ii) the beneficial owner otherwise establishes an
exemption.
Payments of principal, interest and premium (if any) on a note paid to the
beneficial owner of a note by a U.S. office of a custodian, nominee or agent, or
the payment by the U.S. office of a broker of the proceeds from the sale of a
note, will be subject to both backup withholding and information reporting
unless the beneficial owner (i)
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provides the statement referred to in (a)(iv) above and the payor does not have
actual knowledge or reason to know that the beneficial owner is a U.S. person or
(ii) otherwise establishes an exemption.
Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules will be allowed as
a refund or a credit against such holder's U.S. federal income tax liability
provided the required information is furnished to the IRS.
POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF THE NOTES. If, contrary to the
opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the IRS successfully asserted that one or
more of the classes of notes did not represent debt for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, the classes of notes might be treated as equity interests in the
trust. If so treated, the trust might be treated as a publicly traded
partnership taxable as a corporation with potentially adverse tax consequences
to the holders of notes of that class (and the publicly traded partnership
taxable as a corporation would not be able to reduce its taxable income by
deduction for interest expense on notes recharacterized as equity, and the
resulting tax liability of the trust would thus reduce the amount available to
the trust to make payments to the noteholders and certificateholders).
Alternatively, the trust might be treated as a publicly traded partnership that
would not be taxable as a corporation because it would meet certain qualifying
income tests. Nonetheless, treatment of the notes as equity interests in such a
partnership could have adverse tax consequences to certain holders. For example,
income to certain tax-exempt entities (including pension funds) would be
"unrelated business taxable income" taxable to such entities, income to non-U.S.
holders generally would be subject to U.S. tax and U.S. tax return filing and
withholding requirements and individual holders might be subject to certain
limitations on their ability to deduct their share of the trust expenses. See
"Tax Consequences to Certificateholders" below.
TAX CONSEQUENCES TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
TREATMENT OF THE TRUST AS A PARTNERSHIP. As discussed above under the
section entitled "Trust Treated as Partnership--Tax Characterization of the
Trust," the following discussion assumes that for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, (i) the trust will be treated as a partnership (other than a publicly
traded partnership), (ii) the notes will be treated as debt of this partnership
and (iii) the certificates represent equity interests in the partnership.
PARTNERSHIP TAXATION. As a partnership, the trust will not be subject to
U.S. federal income tax. Rather, each certificateholder will be required
separately to take into account such certificateholder's allocable share of the
trust's income, gains, losses, deductions and credits. The trust's income will
consist primarily of interest and late and other administrative fees earned on
the motor vehicle loans (including appropriate adjustments for market discount,
OID and bond premium) and any gain realized upon the collection or disposition
of motor vehicle loans. The trust's deductions will consist primarily of
interest accruing with respect to the notes, servicing and other fees, and
losses or deductions realized upon the collection or disposition of motor
vehicle loans.
The tax items of a partnership are allocable to the partners in accordance
with the tax code, the relevant Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder and
the partnership agreement (here, the trust agreement and related documents).
However, inasmuch as the trust's payment of the interest rate applicable to the
certificates is payable to the certificateholders without regard to the income
of the trust, the trust intends to treat payments of such amounts to
certificateholders as "guaranteed payments" within the meaning of Section 707(c)
of the tax code. Under such treatment payments will be considered ordinary
income to a certificateholder but may not be considered interest income for U.S.
federal income tax purposes.
In the event that such tax treatment is not respected, the trust agreement
provides that the certificateholders will be allocated gross income of the trust
for each calendar month equal to the sum of (i) the amount of interest that
accrues on the certificates for such calendar month, (ii) an amount equivalent
to interest that accrues during such period on amounts previously due on the
certificates but not yet distributed and (iii) any gross income of the trust
attributable to discount on the motor vehicle loans that corresponds to any
excess of the principal amount of the certificates over their initial issue
price. All remaining income of the trust will be allocated to Chase USA. All
deductions and losses also will be allocated to Chase USA.
No assurance can be given that the IRS would not require the trust to
allocate a greater amount of gross or net income to the certificateholders.
Moreover, even under the foregoing method of allocation (and also under the
rules applicable to the tax treatment of guaranteed payments, which is the
trust's primary U.S. federal income tax reporting position), certificateholders
will realize income equal to the entire interest rate on the certificates even
though the trust may not have sufficient cash to make current cash distributions
with respect to such income. Thus, cash method certificateholders will be
required effectively to report income from the certificates on an accrual basis
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and all certificateholders will be liable for the U.S. federal income taxes due
on their allocable share of the trust's income even if they have not received
any cash distributions from the trust with respect to such income. In addition,
because tax allocations and tax reporting will be done on a uniform basis for
all certificateholders, certificateholders purchasing certificates at different
times and at different prices may be required to recognize an amount of taxable
income that is greater or less than the amount of economic income reported to
them by the trust. See "Allocations between Transferors and Transferees" below.
A significant portion of the taxable income allocated to a
certificateholder that is a pension, profit sharing or employee benefit plan or
other tax-exempt entity (including an individual retirement account) will
constitute "unrelated business taxable income" generally taxable to such a
holder under the tax code.
The trust intends to make all tax calculations relating to income and
allocations to certificateholders on an aggregate basis. If the IRS were to
require that such calculations be made separately for each motor vehicle loan,
the trust might be required to incur additional expense.
DISCOUNT AND PREMIUM. Chase USA anticipates that the motor vehicle loans
transferred to the trust will not have been issued with OID. In such case, the
trust should not have to accrue any OID income. However, the purchase price paid
by the trust for the motor vehicle loans may be greater or less than the
remaining principal balance of the motor vehicle loans at the time of purchase.
If so, the motor vehicle loans will have been acquired at a premium or discount,
as the case may be. (As indicated above, the trust will make this calculation on
an aggregate basis, but might be required to recompute it on a
receivable-by-receivable basis.)
If the trust acquires the motor vehicle loans at a market discount or
premium, the trust will elect to include any such discount in income currently
as it accrues over the life of the motor vehicle loans or to offset any such
premium against interest income on the motor vehicle loans. As indicated above,
a portion of such market discount income or premium deduction may be allocated
to certificateholders.
SECTION 708 TERMINATION Under Section 708 of the tax code, the trust will
be deemed to terminate for U.S. federal income tax purposes if 50% or more of
the capital and profits interests in the trust are sold or exchanged within a
12-month period. If such a termination occurs, the trust would be considered to
have transferred all of its assets and liabilities to a new trust and then to
have immediately liquidated and distributed the interests in the new trust to
the continuing certificateholders. The trust will not comply with certain
technical requirements that might apply when such a constructive termination
occurs. Consequently, the trust may be subject to certain tax penalties and may
incur additional expenses if it is required to comply with those requirements.
DISPOSITION OF CERTIFICATES. Generally, subject to a number of specific
exceptions, a certificateholder will recognize capital gain or loss on a sale or
other taxable disposition of certificates in an amount equal to the difference
between the amount realized by the certificateholder on such sale or disposition
and the certificateholder's tax basis in such certificates. A
certificateholder's tax basis in a certificate generally will equal the
certificateholder's cost therefor increased by the certificateholder's allocable
share of trust income and decreased by any distributions received with respect
to such certificate. In addition, both the tax basis in the certificates and the
amount realized on a sale of a certificate would include the certificateholder's
allocable share of the notes and other liabilities of the trust. A
certificateholder acquiring certificates at different prices will be required to
maintain a single aggregate adjusted tax basis in such certificates, and, upon
sale or other disposition of some of the certificates, allocate a portion of
such aggregate tax basis to the certificates sold (rather than maintaining a
separate tax basis in each certificate for purposes of computing gain or loss on
a sale of that certificate).
Any gain on the sale of a certificate attributable to the
certificateholder's share of unrecognized accrued market discount on the motor
vehicle loans generally would be treated as ordinary income to the
certificateholder and would give rise to special tax reporting requirements. In
order to avoid this tax treatment and the resulting special tax reporting
requirements related thereto, the trust will elect to include market discount in
income as it accrues.
If a certificateholder is required to recognize an aggregate amount of
income over the life of the certificates that exceeds the aggregate cash
distributions with respect thereto, such excess generally will give rise to a
capital loss upon the retirement of the certificates. The deductibility of
capital losses is subject to limitations.
ALLOCATIONS BETWEEN TRANSFERORS AND TRANSFEREES. In general, the trust's
taxable income and losses will be determined monthly and the tax items for a
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particular calendar month will be apportioned among the certificateholders in
proportion to the principal amount of certificates owned by them as of the close
of the last day of such month. As a result, an investor purchasing certificates
may be allocated tax items (which will affect its tax liability and tax basis)
attributable to periods before their purchase.
The use of such a monthly convention may not be permitted by existing
regulations. If a monthly convention is not allowed (or only applies to
transfers of less than all of the certificateholder's interest), taxable income
or losses of the trust might be reallocated among the certificateholders. The
trustee is authorized to revise the trust's method of allocation between
transferors and transferees to conform to a method permitted by future
regulations.
SECTION 754 ELECTION. In the event that a certificateholder sells its
certificates at a profit (or loss), the purchasing certificateholder will have a
higher (or lower) tax basis in the certificates than the selling
certificateholder had. The tax basis of the trust's assets will not be adjusted
to reflect that higher (or lower) basis unless the trust files an election under
Section 754 of the tax code. In order to avoid the administrative complexities
that would be involved in keeping accurate accounting records, the trust will
not make such an election. As a result, certificateholders might be allocated a
greater or lesser amount of trust income than would be appropriate based on
their own purchase price for certificates.
ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS. The trustee will be required to keep complete and
accurate books for the trust. Such books will be maintained for financial
reporting and tax purposes on an accrual basis and the fiscal year of the trust
will be the calendar year. The trustee will file or cause to be filed a
partnership information return (IRS Form 1065) with the IRS for each taxable
year of the trust and will report each certificateholder's allocable share of
items of trust income and expense to holders and the IRS on Schedule K-1. The
trustee will provide or cause to be provided the Schedule K-1 information to
nominees that fail to provide the trust with the information statement described
below and such nominees will be required to forward such information to the
beneficial owners of the certificates. Generally, certificateholders must file
tax returns that are consistent with the information return filed by the trust
or be subject to penalties unless the certificateholder notifies the IRS of all
such inconsistencies.
Under Section 6031 of the tax code, any person that holds certificates as a
nominee at any time during a calendar year is required to furnish the trust with
a statement containing certain information on the nominee, the beneficial owners
and the certificates so held. Such information includes (i) the name, address
and taxpayer identification number of the nominee and (ii) as to each beneficial
owner (x) the name, address and taxpayer identification number of such person,
(y) whether such person is a United States person, a tax-exempt entity or a
foreign government, an international organization, or any wholly owned agency or
instrumentality of either of the foregoing and (z) certain information on
certificates that were held, bought or sold on behalf of such person throughout
the year. In addition, brokers and financial institutions that hold certificates
through a nominee are required to furnish directly to the trust information as
to themselves and their ownership of certificates. A clearing agency registered
under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is not required to
furnish any such information statement to the trust. The information referred to
above for any calendar year must be furnished to the trust on or before the
following January 31. Nominees, brokers and financial institutions that fail to
provide the trust with the information described above may be subject to
penalties.
Chase USA will be designated as the tax matters partner in the trust
agreement and, as such, will be responsible for representing the
certificateholders in any dispute with the IRS. The tax code provides for
administrative examination of a partnership as if the partnership were a
separate and distinct taxpayer. Generally, the statute of limitations for
partnership items does not expire before three years after the date on which the
partnership information return is filed. Any adverse determination following an
audit of the return of the trust by the appropriate taxing authorities could
result in an adjustment of the returns of the certificateholders, and, under
certain circumstances, a certificateholder may be precluded from separately
litigating a proposed adjustment to the items of the trust. An adjustment could
result in an audit of a certificateholder's U.S. federal income tax returns and,
consequently, to adjustments of items not related to the certificateholder's
allocable share of the income and losses of the trust.
TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NON-U.S. CERTIFICATEHOLDERS. Under the terms of the
trust agreement, the certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of
an individual or entity that is not a U.S. person as defined in Section
7701(a)(30) of the tax code, and any transfer of a certificate to a person that
is not a U.S. person shall be void. Moreover, the trust will withhold on any
amounts allocable or payable to a non-U.S. certificateholder at a rate of 35%
for non-U.S. certificateholders that are taxable as corporations and the highest
individual income tax rate for all
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other non-U.S. certificateholders. In determining a certificateholder's
withholding status, the entity otherwise required to withhold U.S. taxes may
rely on IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-9 or a certificateholder's
certification of nonforeign status signed under penalties of perjury.
BACKUP WITHHOLDING. Distributions made on the certificates and proceeds
from the sale of the certificates generally will be subject to U.S. backup
withholding tax if the certificateholder fails to comply with certain
identification procedures or otherwise fails to establish an exemption.
STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES
The above discussion does not address the tax treatment of the trust, the
notes, the certificates, noteholders or certificateholders under any state tax
laws. You are urged to consult with your own tax advisors regarding the state
tax treatment of the trust as well as any state tax consequences to you,
particularly in the case of financial institutions, of purchasing, holding and
disposing of your notes or certificates.
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS
GENERAL
Before investing in the notes or certificates, fiduciaries of PLANS should
consider, among other matters:
o ERISA's fiduciary standards or similar standards under SIMILAR LAWS,
o whether such investment in the notes or certificates by the PLAN
satisfies the prudence and diversification requirements of ERISA or
applicable standards under SIMILAR LAWS, taking into account the overall
investment policy of the PLAN, the composition of the PLAN'S portfolio
and any limitations on the marketability of the notes and certificates,
o whether such fiduciaries have authority to make such investment in the
notes or certificates under the applicable PLAN investment policies and
governing instruments and
o rules under ERISA and the tax code or similar standards under SIMILAR
LAWS that prohibit plan fiduciaries from causing a PLAN to engage in
certain "prohibited transactions."
Under the PLAN ASSETS REGULATION issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, or
the DOL, if a PLAN subject to ERISA invests in an "equity interest" of an entity
that is neither a publicly-offered security nor a security issued by an
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the
PLAN'S assets will include both the equity interest and an undivided interest in
each of the entity's underlying assets, unless it is established that the entity
is an operating company or that equity participation in the entity by benefit
plan investors is not significant. An "equity interest" is an interest in an
entity other than an instrument that is treated as indebtedness under applicable
local law and which has no substantial equity features. If the underlying assets
of the trust or Chase USA were deemed to be "plan assets" of PLANS under ERISA,
this would result, among other things, in (i) the application of the prudence
and other fiduciary responsibility standards of ERISA to activities engaged in
by Chase USA, the trustee, and others and (ii) the possibility that certain
transactions in which Chase USA, the trustee and others might seek to engage
could constitute "prohibited transactions" under ERISA and the tax code. If a
prohibited transaction occurs for which no exemption is available, Chase USA,
the trustee and any other fiduciary that has engaged in the prohibited
transaction could be required (i) to restore to the PLAN any profit realized on
the transaction and (ii) to reimburse the PLAN for any losses suffered by the
PLAN as a result of the investment. In addition, each disqualified person
(within the meaning of Section 4975 of the tax code) involved could be subject
to an excise tax equal to 15% of the amount involved in the prohibited
transaction for each year the transaction continues and, unless the transaction
is corrected within statutorily required periods, to an additional tax of 100%
of the amount involved. PLAN fiduciaries who decide to invest in the notes or
certificates could, under certain circumstances, be liable for prohibited
transactions or other violations as a result of their investment or as
co-fiduciaries for actions taken by or on behalf of Chase USA or the trust. With
respect to an individual retirement account, or IRA, that invests in the notes
or certificates, the occurrence of a prohibited transaction involving the
individual who established the IRA, or his or her beneficiaries, would cause the
IRA to lose its tax-exempt status.
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THE NOTES
Although there can be no assurances, since there is little authority on the
subject, we believe that the notes will not constitute equity interests under
the PLAN ASSETS REGULATION because the notes (a) should be treated as
indebtedness under local law and as debt, rather than equity, for tax purposes
(SEE "MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES--TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NOTEHOLDERS"
IN THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT), and (b) should not be deemed to have any
"substantial equity features." Therefore, the motor vehicle loans and other
assets included as assets of the trust should not be deemed to be "plan assets"
of the investing PLANS. Those conclusions are based, in part, upon the
traditional debt features of the notes, including the reasonable expectation of
purchasers of notes that the notes (which are highly rated by the rating
agencies) will be repaid when due, as well as the absence of conversion rights,
warrants and other typical equity features. However, we cannot assure you that
the notes would be characterized by the DOL or others as indebtedness on the
date of issuance or at any given time thereafter. Accordingly, before purchasing
the notes, a fiduciary or other PLAN investor should itself confirm that the
notes constitute indebtedness, and have no substantial equity features, for
purposes of the PLAN ASSETS REGULATION.
Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the tax code prohibit PLANS
subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the tax code from engaging in
specified transactions involving plan assets with persons or entities who are
"parties in interest," within the meaning of ERISA, or "disqualified persons,"
within the meaning of Section 4975 of the tax code. The acquisition and/or
ownership of the notes by a Plan with respect to which Chase USA, the trustee,
the indenture trustee, the owner of the certificates or others involved with the
notes, or any of their respective affiliates is considered a party in interest
or a disqualified person may constitute or result in a prohibited transaction
under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the tax code, unless the notes are
acquired and are held in accordance with an applicable statutory, regulatory,
class or individual prohibited transaction exemption. In this regard, the DOL
has issued prohibited transaction class exemptions, which are called PTCEs, that
may apply to the acquisition and holding of the notes. These class exemptions
include, among others, PTCE 84-14 respecting transactions effected by
independent qualified professional asset managers, PTCE 90-1 respecting
insurance company pooled separate accounts, PTCE 91-38 respecting bank
collective investment funds, PTCE 95-60 respecting insurance company general
accounts and PTCE 96-23 respecting transactions effected by in-house asset
managers.
SIMILAR LAWS governing the investment and management of the assets of
governmental and non-U.S. PLANS may contain fiduciary and prohibited transaction
requirements similar to those under ERISA and the tax code discussed above.
Accordingly, fiduciaries of such governmental and non-U.S. PLANS, in
consultation with their advisors, should consider the impact of any applicable
SIMILAR LAWS on investments in the notes and the considerations described above,
if applicable.
The notes may not be purchased with plan assets of any PLAN if any of Chase
USA, the indenture trustee, the trustee or any of their respective affiliates
o has investment or administrative discretion with respect to the plan
assets used to effect such purchase,
o has authority or responsibility to give, or regularly gives, investment
advice with respect to such plan assets, for a fee and pursuant to an
agreement or understanding that such advice (i) will serve as a primary
basis for investment decisions with respect to such plan assets, and (ii)
will be based on the particular investment needs of such PLAN or
o is an employer maintaining or continuing such PLAN.
Any fiduciary proposing to invest in the notes for or on behalf of a PLAN,
directly or indirectly, should consult with counsel for the PLAN and each
fiduciary investing in a note will be deemed to represent that its purchase and
holding of the notes (i) are eligible for exemptive relief under PTCE 84-14,
PTCE 90-1, PTCE 91-38, PTCE 95-60, PTCE 96-23, or, if the PLAN is not subject to
ERISA or Section 4975 of the tax code, does not and will not constitute or
result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction, or otherwise trigger any
penalties or liabilities under, or violate in any way, any other applicable
SIMILAR LAWS, and (ii) will satisfy the applicable fiduciary requirements
imposed under ERISA and any other applicable SIMILAR LAWS.
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THE CERTIFICATES
The following is a summary of certain considerations associated with an
investment in the certificates by PLANS subject to Title I of ERISA and Section
4975 of the tax code.
Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the tax code prohibit PLANS from
engaging in specified transactions involving plan assets with persons or
entities who are "parties in interest," within the meaning of ERISA, or
"disqualified persons," within the meaning of Section 4975 of the tax code.
Because the certificates will constitute "equity interests" under the PLAN
ASSETS REGULATION and there can be no assurance that any exception under that
regulation will apply, it is likely that an investment by PLANS in certificates
will cause the assets of the trust to be "plan assets." The acquisition and/or
ownership of certificates by a PLAN with respect to which Chase USA, the
trustee, the indenture trustee, or others involved with the certificates, or any
of their respective affiliates is considered a party in interest or a
disqualified person may constitute or result in a direct or indirect prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the tax code,
unless the certificates are acquired and are held in accordance with an
applicable statutory, regulatory, class or individual prohibited transaction
exemption.
The DOL has granted to J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. the EXEMPTION, which
exempts from certain of the prohibited transaction rules and the related excise
tax provisions of Section 4975 of the tax code with respect to the initial
purchase, the holding and the subsequent resale by PLANS of securities,
including certificates, issued by certain qualifying issuers holding investment
pools that consist of only certain receivables, loans, and other obligations,
and the related servicing, operation and management of the issuers, provided the
conditions and requirements of the EXEMPTION are satisfied. The receivables
covered by the EXEMPTION include retail installment sales contracts, purchase
money notes and other notes secured by automobiles and light-duty trucks such as
the motor vehicle loans to be held by the trust. Among the general conditions
that must be satisfied for the EXEMPTION to apply are the following:
o the acquisition of the securities by a PLAN is on terms, including the
price for the securities, that are at least as favorable to the PLAN as
they would be in an arm's-length transaction with an unrelated party,
o the rights and interests evidenced by the securities acquired by the PLAN
are not subordinated to the rights and interests evidenced by other
securities of the issuer unless the investment pool contains certain
types of collateral, such as consumer loans fully secured by motor
vehicles,
o the securities acquired by the PLAN have received a rating at the time of
such acquisition that is in one of the three highest generic rating
categories (four, in a transaction in which the investment pool contains
certain types of collateral, such as consumer loans fully secured by
motor vehicles) from either Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's,
a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or Fitch Ratings,
o the trustee must not be an affiliate of any other member of the
RESTRICTED GROUP,
o the sum of all payments made to and retained by the underwriters in
connection with the distribution of the securities represents not more
than reasonable compensation for underwriting the securities,
o the sum of all payments made to and retained by the seller pursuant to
the assignment of the loans to the issuer represents not more than the
fair market value of such loans,
o the sum of all payments made to and retained by the servicer and any
other servicer represents not more than reasonable compensation for such
person's services under any servicing agreement,
o the PLAN investing in the securities is an "accredited investor" as
defined in Rule 501(a)(1) of Regulation D of the SEC under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and
o for certain types of issuers, the documents establishing the issuer and
governing the transaction must contain certain provisions intended to
protect the assets of the issuer from creditors of the sponsor.
The EXEMPTION defines the term "reasonable compensation" by reference to
DOL Regulation Section 2550.408c-2, which states that whether compensation is
reasonable depends upon the particular facts and circumstances of each case.
Each fiduciary of a PLAN considering the purchase of a certificate should
satisfy itself that all amounts paid to or retained by the underwriter and the
servicer represent reasonable compensation for purposes of the EXEMPTION if the
EXEMPTION is being relied upon.
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Furthermore, in order for its securities to qualify under the EXEMPTION, an
issuer must meet certain requirements, including the following:
o the corpus of the issuer must consist solely of assets of the type that
have been included in other investment pools,
o securities in such other investment pools must have been rated in one of
the three highest rating categories (four, in a transaction which the
investment pool contains certain types of collateral, such as consumer
loans fully secured by motor vehicles) of either Moody's Investors
Service, Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
or Fitch Ratings for at least one year prior to the PLAN'S acquisition of
the securities and
o securities evidencing interests in such other investment pools must have
been purchased by investors other than PLANS for at least one year prior
to any PLAN'S acquisition of securities.
The EXEMPTION generally does not apply to PLANS sponsored by a member of
the RESTRICTED GROUP. Moreover, the EXEMPTION provides certain PLAN fiduciaries
relief from certain self-dealing/conflict of interest prohibited transactions
that may arise when the fiduciary causes a PLAN to acquire securities of an
issuer holding obligations on which the fiduciary or its affiliate is obligor
only if, among other requirements:
o in the case of an acquisition in connection with the initial issuance of
securities, at least 50% of each class of securities in which PLANS have
invested is acquired by persons independent of the RESTRICTED GROUP and
at least 50% of the aggregate interest in the issuer is acquired by
persons independent of the RESTRICTED GROUP,
o such fiduciary or its affiliate is an obligor with respect to 5% or less
of the fair market value of the obligations contained in the investment
pool,
o the PLAN'S investment in securities of any class does not exceed 25% of
all of the securities of the class outstanding at the time of the
acquisition and
o immediately after the acquisition, no more than 25% of the assets of any
PLAN with respect to which such person is a fiduciary is invested in
securities representing an interest in one or more issuers containing
assets sold or serviced by the same entity.
The rating of a security may change. If the rating of a security declines
below the lowest permitted rating, the security will no longer be eligible for
exemptive relief under the EXEMPTION and consequently may not be purchased by or
sold to a PLAN (although a PLAN that had purchased the security when it had a
permitted rating would not be required by the EXEMPTION to dispose of it).
The EXEMPTION will apply to the acquisition and the holding of the
certificates only if all of the conditions to application of the EXEMPTION are
satisfied. Before purchasing a certificate, a PLAN fiduciary should make its own
determination as to the availability of the relief provided by the EXEMPTION. In
particular, a fiduciary of any PLAN considering an investment in the
certificates must ascertain that the PLAN is an "accredited investor", as
defined in Rule 501(a)(1) of Regulation D of the SEC under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and that, at the time of the acquisition, the certificates are
rated BBB- or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's, a division
of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or Fitch Ratings.
TAXATION OF TAX-EXEMPT INVESTORS
A PLAN that is exempt from the U.S. federal income tax under Section 501(a)
of the tax code is nevertheless subject to federal income taxation to the extent
that its income is "unrelated business taxable income," or UBTI, within the
meaning of Section 512 of the tax code. All or a portion of the income in
respect of certificates and other equity interests of a trust that has issued
debt obligations is "debt-financed income," within the meaning of Section 514 of
the tax code, and is therefore UBTI. Any potential investor that is exempt from
the U.S. federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the tax code should consult
counsel concerning the taxation of an investment in the certificates.
Each PLAN fiduciary should consult with its legal advisor concerning the
considerations discussed above before making an investment in the certificates,
including the applicability of a PTCE or the EXEMPTION. As indicated above,
SIMILAR LAWS governing the investment and management of the assets of
governmental, church, non-U.S., and other PLANS may contain fiduciary and
prohibited transaction requirements similar to those under ERISA and/or
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the tax code. Accordingly, fiduciaries of such PLANS, in consultation with their
advisors, should consider the impact of applicable SIMILAR LAWS on an investment
in the certificates and the considerations discussed above, as applicable. In
addition, the general fiduciary requirements which apply to investments in the
notes apply as well to investments in the certificates, and each purchaser and
holder of certificates will be deemed to have represented and warranted that its
purchase and holding of a certificate or any interest therein satisfies such
requirements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE PROSPECTUS ENTITLED
"EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS."
UNDERWRITING
NOTE UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an underwriting agreement
with respect to the notes, Chase USA has agreed to sell to the underwriters
named below, and each of the those underwriters has severally agreed to
purchase, the principal amount of notes of each class set forth opposite its
name below:
PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT AMOUNT AMOUNT AMOUNT
OF CLASS A-1 OF CLASS A-2 OF CLASS A-3 OF CLASS A-4
NOTE UNDERWRITERS NOTES NOTES NOTES NOTES
- ----------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. ................. $ $ $ $
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. ....................
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Inc. ..............
Lehman Brothers Inc. ........................
The Williams Capital Group, L.P. ............
----------- ------------ ------------ ------------
Total ..................................... $ $ $ $
=========== ============ ============ ============
In the underwriting agreement with respect to the notes, the several
underwriters have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions therein, to
purchase all the notes if any notes are purchased.
Chase USA has been advised by the underwriters that they propose initially
to offer the notes to the public at the prices set forth on the cover page of
this prospectus supplement. After the initial public offering, such public
offering prices may change.
The underwriting discounts and commissions, the selling concessions that
the underwriters of the notes may allow to certain dealers, and the discounts
that such dealers may reallow to certain other dealers, expressed as a
percentage of the aggregate initial principal amount of each class of notes
shall be as follows:
UNDERWRITING SELLING
DISCOUNT CONCESSIONS REALLOWANCE
AND NOT TO NOT TO
COMMISSIONS EXCEED EXCEED
------------ ---------- -----------
Class A-1 Notes .............................
Class A-2 Notes .............................
Class A-3 Notes .............................
Class A-4 Notes .............................
CERTIFICATE UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an underwriting agreement
with respect to the certificates, Chase USA has agreed to sell to J.P. Morgan
Securities Inc., as underwriter of the certificates, and J.P. Morgan Securities
Inc. has agreed to purchase, the entire principal amount of the certificates.
In the underwriting agreement with respect to the certificates, the
underwriter of the certificates has agreed, subject to the terms and conditions
therein, to purchase all of the certificates if any certificates are purchased.
Chase USA has been advised by the underwriter of the certificates that it
proposes initially to offer the certificates to the public at the price set
forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement. After the initial public
offering, such public offering price may change.
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The underwriting discounts and commissions, the selling concessions that
the underwriter of the certificates may allow to certain dealers, and the
discounts that such dealers may reallow to certain other dealers, expressed as a
percentage of the initial certificate balance shall be as follows:
UNDERWRITING SELLING
DISCOUNT CONCESSIONS REALLOWANCE
AND NOT TO NOT TO
COMMISSIONS EXCEED EXCEED
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Certificates ................................
PROCEEDS TO CHASE USA
Chase USA will receive the proceeds listed below, after payment of the
underwriting discounts and commissions listed below and estimated expenses of
$825,000:
PROCEEDS TO
CHASE USA
AS % OF THE UNDERWRITING
PRINCIPAL DISCOUNTS
PROCEEDS TO AMOUNT OF AND
CHASE USA THE SECURITIES COMMISSIONS
----------- -------------- ------------
Class A-1 Notes .................................. $ % $
Class A-2 Notes .................................. $ % $
Class A-3 Notes .................................. $ % $
Class A-4 Notes .................................. $ % $
Certificates ..................................... $ % $
GENERAL
Until the distribution of the notes is completed, rules of the SEC may
limit the ability of the underwriters and certain selling group members to bid
for and purchase the securities. As an exception to these rules, the
underwriters are permitted to engage in certain transactions that stabilize the
price of the securities. Such transactions consist of bids or purchases for the
purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the securities.
If the underwriters create a short position in the securities in connection
with this offering (i.e., they sell more securities than the aggregate initial
principal amount set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement), the
underwriters may reduce that short position by purchasing securities in the open
market.
The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid on certain underwriters and
selling group members. This means that if the underwriters purchase securities
in the open market to reduce the underwriters' short position or to stabilize
the price of such securities, they may reclaim the amount of the selling
concession from any underwriter or selling group member who sold those
securities as part of the offering.
In general, purchases of a security for the purpose of stabilization or to
reduce a short position could cause the price of the security to be higher than
it might be in the absence of such purchases. The imposition of a penalty bid
might also have an effect on the price of a security to the extent that it were
to discourage resales of the security.
Neither the seller nor any of the underwriters makes any representation or
prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that any of the
transactions described above might have on the price of the securities. In
addition, neither the seller nor any of the underwriters makes any
representation that the underwriters will engage in such transactions or that
such transactions, if commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.
The notes and the certificates are new issues of securities and there
currently is no secondary market for the securities or the certificates. The
underwriters for the securities expect to make a market in the securities but
will not be obligated to do so. We cannot assure you that a secondary market for
the securities will develop. If a secondary market for the securities does
develop, it might end at any time or it might not be sufficiently liquid to
enable you to resell any of your notes or certificates.
The indenture trustee may, from time to time, invest the funds in the
collection account and the reserve account in investments acquired from or
issued by the underwriters.
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In the ordinary course of business, the underwriters and their affiliates
have engaged and may engage in investment banking and commercial banking
transactions with Chase USA and its affiliates.
Chase USA has agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain
liabilities, including civil liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or to contribute to payments which the underwriters may be required to
make in respect thereof.
The closings of the sale of each class of the notes and the certificates
are conditioned on the closing of the sale of each other class of notes and
those certificates.
This prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus may be used by J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc. in connection with offers and sales related to
market-making transactions in the securities. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. may
act as principal or agent in such transactions. Such sales will be made at
prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale. J.P. Morgan
Securities Inc. has no obligation to make a market in the securities and any
such market-making may be discontinued at any time without notice, in its sole
discretion. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. is among the underwriters participating
in the initial distribution of the securities.
Upon receipt of a request by an investor who has received an electronic
prospectus from an underwriter or a request by such investor's representative
within the period during which there is an obligation to deliver a prospectus,
Chase USA or such underwriter will promptly deliver, without charge, a paper
copy of this prospectus supplement and the prospectus.
LEGAL MATTERS
Certain legal matters relating to the issuance of the securities will be
passed upon for Chase USA by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, New York.
Certain legal matters relating to the issuance of the certificates will be
passed upon for Chase USA by Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. and certain other
legal matters will be passed upon for Chase USA by Raymond C. Scott, Esq., an
Assistant Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Chase Manhattan
Automotive Finance Corporation, and for the Underwriters by Sidley Austin Brown
& Wood LLP, New York, New York. From time to time Simpson Thacher & Bartlett,
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP and Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. provide legal
services to Chase USA and its affiliates.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Additional defined terms used in this prospectus supplement are defined in
the prospectus.
ABS means the Absolute Prepayment Model which we use to measure prepayments
on motor vehicle loans and which we describe under "Weighted Average Life of the
Securities."
ABS TABLES means the tables captioned "Percent of Initial Note Principal
Amount at Various ABS Percentages" and "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance
at Various ABS Percentages" included under "Weighted Average Life of the
Securities."
AGGREGATE NET LOSSES means, for any payment date, the amount equal to the
aggregate principal balance of all motor vehicle loans that were designated
"defaulted receivables" during the related COLLECTION PERIOD minus the
LIQUIDATION PROCEEDS allocable to principal collected during such COLLECTION
PERIOD with respect to any motor vehicle loans previously designated as
"defaulted receivables."
AVAILABLE INTEREST means, for any payment date, the sum of the portion of
collections on the motor vehicle loans received during the related COLLECTION
PERIOD allocated to interest and that portion of the repurchase amounts received
with respect to the motor vehicle loans repurchased by the seller or purchased
by the servicer during the related COLLECTION PERIOD that would have been
treated as AVAILABLE INTEREST if the obligor thereof had prepaid such motor
vehicle loans in full on the date as of which such motor vehicle loans were
repurchased or purchased.
AVAILABLE PRINCIPAL means, for any payment date, the sum of the portion of
collections on the motor vehicle loans during the related COLLECTION PERIOD
allocated to the principal balance of the motor vehicle loans and that portion
of the repurchase amounts received with respect to the motor vehicle loans
repurchased by the seller or purchased by the servicer during the related
COLLECTION PERIOD that would have been treated as AVAILABLE PRINCIPAL
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if the obligor thereof had prepaid such motor vehicle loans in full on the date
as of which such motor vehicle loans were repurchased or purchased.
AVERAGE DELINQUENCY PERCENTAGE means, for any payment date, the average of
the DELINQUENCY PERCENTAGES for such payment date and the preceding two payment
dates.
AVERAGE NET LOSS RATIO means, for any payment date, the average of the Net
Loss Ratios for such payment date and the preceding two payment dates.
CERTIFICATE BALANCE means $50,600,000 as of the closing date and,
thereafter, will be an amount equal to the initial CERTIFICATE BALANCE, reduced
by all amounts allocable to principal previously distributed to
certificateholders. The CERTIFICATE BALANCE shall also be reduced on any payment
date by the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the CERTIFICATE BALANCE and the
outstanding principal amount of the notes (in each case after giving effect to
payments and distributions on that payment date), over (ii) the aggregate
principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the close of business on the
last day of the preceding COLLECTION PERIOD. Thereafter, the CERTIFICATE BALANCE
will be increased on any payment date to the extent that any portion of the
TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT on such payment date is available to make
distributions of principal shortfalls carried over from prior payment dates in
respect of the certificates.
CERTIFICATE PERCENTAGE means 100% minus the Note Percentage on the date the
Class A-2 notes are paid in full.
COLLECTION PERIOD means, with respect to the first payment date, the period
from and including the cutoff date to and including March 31, 2002 and, with
respect to each subsequent payment date, the calendar month preceding the
calendar month in which such payment date occurs.
DELINQUENCY PERCENTAGE means, for any payment date, the sum of the
outstanding principal balances of all motor vehicle loans which are 60 days or
more delinquent (including motor vehicle loans, which are not designated as
"defaulted receivables," relating to financed vehicles that have been
repossessed), as of the close of business on the last day of the COLLECTION
PERIOD immediately preceding such payment date, determined in accordance with
the servicer's normal practices, such sum expressed as a percentage of the
aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the close of
business on the last day of such COLLECTION PERIOD.
EXEMPTION means the individual administrative exemption granted by the U.S.
Department of Labor to J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
FOREIGN INVESTOR means any person other than (i) a citizen or resident of
the United States, (ii) a corporation or partnership organized in or under the
laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, (iii) an estate,
the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax
purposes regardless of its source, or (iv) a trust (a) that is subject to the
supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more
United States persons as described in Section 7701(a)(30) of the tax code or (b)
that has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations
to be treated as a United States person.
LIQUIDATION PROCEEDS means with respect to any motor vehicle loan, (i)
insurance proceeds, (ii) the monies collected during a COLLECTION PERIOD from
whatever source on a defaulted receivable and (iii) proceeds of a financed
vehicle sold after repossession, in each case, net of any liquidation expenses
and payments required by law to be remitted to the obligor.
NET LOSS RATIO means, for any payment date, the ratio expressed as an
annualized percentage of (i) the AGGREGATE NET LOSSES for such payment date, to
(ii) the average of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans
on the last day of the second COLLECTION PERIOD preceding the COLLECTION PERIOD
in which such payment date occurs and the aggregate balance of the motor vehicle
loans on the last day of the COLLECTION PERIOD preceding the COLLECTION PERIOD
in which such payment date occurs.
NOTE PERCENTAGE means the percentage equivalent of a fraction the numerator
of which is the aggregate principal amount of the Class A-3 notes and the Class
A-4 notes on the date the Class A-2 notes are paid in full and the denominator
of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Class A-3 notes and
the Class A-4 notes and the Certificate Balance on the date the Class A-2 notes
are paid in full.
PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT means, for any payment date, the sum of the
following amounts, without duplication, for such payment date: (i) AVAILABLE
PRINCIPAL and (ii) the aggregate principal balance (net of
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liquidation proceeds received during the related COLLECTION PERIOD and applied
to principal) of all motor vehicle loans designated as "defaulted receivables"
in that COLLECTION PERIOD.
RESTRICTED GROUP means, for purposes of the EXEMPTION, the underwriter, the
trustee, the seller, the servicer, any insurer with respect to the loans, and
any obligor with respect to loans included in the investment pool constituting
more than 5% of the aggregate unamortized principal balance of the assets in the
investment pool and the affiliates of any of those parties.
SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE means, on any payment date, 2.00% of the
aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the last day of the
second COLLECTION PERIOD preceding the COLLECTION PERIOD in which such payment
date occurs, but in any event will not be less than the lesser of (i) an amount
equal to 0.75% of the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as
of the cutoff date and (ii) the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle
loans; provided, that the SPECIFIED RESERVE ACCOUNT BALANCE will be calculated
using a percentage of 4.00% on any payment date (beginning with the June 2002
payment date) for which the AVERAGE NET LOSS RATIO exceeds 1.75% or the AVERAGE
DELINQUENCY PERCENTAGE exceeds 1.75%.
TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT means, for any payment date, the sum of AVAILABLE
INTEREST and AVAILABLE PRINCIPAL for that payment date. The TOTAL DISTRIBUTION
AMOUNT for any payment date will exclude all payments and proceeds (including
any liquidation proceeds and any amounts received from dealers with respect to
motor vehicle loans) of (i) any motor vehicle loans repurchased by the seller or
purchased by the servicer, the repurchase amount of which has been included in
the TOTAL DISTRIBUTION AMOUNT for a prior payment date and (ii) investment
earnings and any late fees.
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CHASE MANHATTAN AUTO TRUSTS
ASSET BACKED NOTES
ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Seller and Servicer
EACH TRUST--
o will issue asset-backed notes and/or asset-backed certificates in one or
more classes, rated in one of the four highest rating categories by at least
one nationally recognized statistical rating organization,
o will own--
-- a pool of motor vehicle loans secured by new or used
automobiles or light-duty trucks,
-- collections on those motor vehicle loans,
-- security interests in the vehicles financed by those motor vehicle
loans and
-- funds in the accounts of the trust and
o may have the benefit of some form of credit or payment enhancement.
The main sources of funds for making payments on a trust's securities will be
collections on its motor vehicle loans and any enhancement that the trust may
have.
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES
COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS
PROSPECTUS OR ANY RELATED PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
The date of this prospectus is January 22, 2002
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Before you purchase any of these securities, be sure to read the risk factors
beginning on page 8 of this prospectus and the risk factors set forth in the
related prospectus supplement.
A security is not a deposit and neither the securities nor the underlying
motor vehicle loans are insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other
governmental authority.
The notes and the certificates will represent obligations of or interests in
the trust only and will not represent obligations of or interests in Chase
Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, or any of its affiliates.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
READING THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ATTACHED
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ................................................ 3
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ................................. 3
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY
REFERENCE ............................................................ 3
SUMMARY ................................................................... 4
RISK FACTORS .............................................................. 7
Interests of other persons in the financed
vehicles could reduce the funds available
to make payments on your securities .............................. 7
Our insolvency could result in accelerated,
delayed or reduced payments to you ............................... 7
Only the assets of the trust are available to pay
your securities .................................................. 8
Delays in collecting payments could occur if
we cease to be the servicer ...................................... 8
Subordination may cause some classes of
securities to bear additional credit risk ........................ 8
Prepayments on the motor vehicle loans may
adversely affect the average life of and rate
of return on your securities ..................................... 9
You may suffer losses on your securities because
Chase USA as servicer will hold collections
and commingle them with its own funds ............................ 9
Additional motor vehicle loans may have
different characteristics than the initial pool
of motor vehicle loans ........................................... 10
You may experience a prepayment of your
securities as a result of pre-funding ............................ 10
You may suffer losses because you have limited
control over the actions of the trust ............................ 10
THE TRUSTS ................................................................ 10
CHASE USA ................................................................. 11
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS ................................................... 12
General .............................................................. 12
Delinquency and Loan Loss Information ................................ 13
Origination and Servicing of Motor
Vehicle Loans .................................................... 14
Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans .................................. 16
Insurance ............................................................ 17
Collection Procedures ................................................ 18
WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE OF THE SECURITIES ................................... 19
HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE
AMOUNT OUTSTANDING OF YOUR SECURITIES ................................ 20
USE OF PROCEEDS ........................................................... 21
PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS ....................................................... 22
PAYMENTS ON THE SECURITIES ................................................ 23
CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THE SECURITIES .............................. 23
Fixed Rate Securities ................................................ 23
Floating Rate Securities ............................................. 23
Book-Entry Registration .............................................. 24
Definitive Securities ................................................ 28
List of Securityholders .............................................. 29
Reports to Securityholders ........................................... 30
THE INDENTURE ............................................................. 31
Events of Default .................................................... 31
Certain Covenants .................................................... 32
Modifications of the Indenture ....................................... 34
The Indenture Trustee ................................................ 34
TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS ......................................... 35
Sale and Assignment of Motor Vehicle Loans ........................... 35
Trust Accounts ....................................................... 37
Servicing ............................................................ 38
Distributions ........................................................ 42
Credit and Cash Flow Enhancement ..................................... 42
Statements to Trustees and Trust ..................................... 43
Amendments of Transfer and Servicing
Agreements ....................................................... 43
Continuing Obligations of Indenture Trustee .......................... 43
Termination .......................................................... 44
Administration Agreement ............................................. 44
MATERIAL LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE MOTOR
VEHICLE LOANS ........................................................ 44
Security Interests in the Motor Vehicle Loans ........................ 44
Security Interests in the Financed Vehicles .......................... 45
Certain Matters Relating to Receivership ............................. 46
Consumer Protection Laws ............................................. 47
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS ...................................... 48
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION ...................................................... 49
RATINGS ................................................................... 50
LEGAL MATTERS ............................................................. 50
GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR PROSPECTUS .......................................... 51
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READING THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ATTACHED PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
We provide information on your securities in two separate documents that
offer varying levels of detail:
o this prospectus provides general information, some of which may not apply
to a particular series of securities, including your securities, and
o the attached prospectus supplement will provide a summary of the specific
terms of your securities.
If the terms of the securities described in this prospectus vary with the
attached prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in the
prospectus supplement.
We include cross references to sections in these documents where you can
find further related discussions. Refer to the table of contents in the front of
each document to locate the referenced sections.
You will find a glossary of defined terms used in this prospectus on page
56.
You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus and
the attached prospectus supplement, including any information incorporated by
reference. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different
information. The information in this prospectus or the attached prospectus
supplement is only accurate as of the dates on their respective covers.
In this prospectus, the terms "Chase USA", "we", "us" and "our" refer to
Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We have filed a registration statement with the SEC, under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended. This prospectus is part of the registration statement
but the registration statement includes additional information.
You may inspect and copy the registration statement at:
o the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549 (telephone: 1-800-732-0330),
o the SEC's regional office at Citicorp Center, 500 West Madison Street,
14th Floor, Chicago Illinois 60661 and
o the SEC's regional office at 233 Broadway, New York, New York 10279.
Also, the SEC maintains a Web site at HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV containing reports,
proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants
that file electronically with the SEC.
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The SEC allows us to "incorporate by reference" information we file with
it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring
you to other documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered
to be part of this prospectus. Information that we file later with the SEC will
automatically update the information in this prospectus. In all cases, you
should rely on the later information over different information included in this
prospectus or the related prospectus supplement. We incorporate by reference any
future annual, monthly or special SEC reports and proxy materials filed by or on
behalf of a trust until we terminate our offering of the securities issued by
that trust.
COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS
You may receive a free copy of any or all of the documents incorporated by
reference in this prospectus or incorporated by reference into the attached
prospectus supplement if:
o you received this prospectus and
o you request copies from our affiliate, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Attention:
Investor Relations, 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (telephone:
(212) 270-6000).
This offer only includes the exhibits to documents if those exhibits are
specifically incorporated by reference in those documents. You may also read and
copy these materials at the public reference facilities of the SEC in
Washington, D.C. referred to above.
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SUMMARY
THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY IS A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN STRUCTURAL
FEATURES THAT A TRUST'S SECURITIES MAY HAVE. FOR THAT REASON, THIS SUMMARY DOES
NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE IMPORTANT TO YOU OR THAT
DESCRIBES ALL OF THE TERMS OF A SECURITY. TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF A
TRUST'S SECURITIES, YOU WILL NEED TO READ BOTH THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE RELATED
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT, IN THEIR ENTIRETY.
THE TRUSTS
We will form a separate trust to issue each series of securities. Each trust
will be created by an agreement between us and a trustee.
THE SELLER AND THE SERVICER
Chase USA is the seller and the servicer of the motor vehicle loans. We are a
wholly-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Our activities are
predominantly related to consumer lending. Chase USA and JPMorgan Chase Bank are
the principal banking subsidiaries of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Chase USA, together with its affiliates, is engaged in the automotive financing
and automotive loan servicing business.
TRUSTEE
The prospectus supplement will name the trustee for the trust.
INDENTURE TRUSTEE
The prospectus supplement will name the indenture trustee.
SECURITIES
Each trust will issue one or more classes of notes and may issue one or more
classes of certificates. You will find the following information about each
class of securities in the related prospectus supplement:
o its principal amount,
o its interest rate, which may be fixed or variable or a combination of
fixed and variable rates,
o the timing, amount and priority or subordination of payments of principal
and interest,
o the method for calculating the amount of principal payments,
o whether or not distributions of principal or interest will be delayed or
not made upon the occurrence of specified events,
o whether payments of principal and interest may or may not be made from
designated portions of the motor vehicle loans,
o its final payment date and
o whether and when it may be redeemed prior to its final payment date.
Some classes of securities may be entitled to:
o principal payments with disproportionate, nominal or no interest payments
or
o interest payments with disproportionate, nominal or no principal
payments.
The prospectus supplement will identify any class of securities issued by a
trust that is not being offered to the public.
OPTIONAL PREPAYMENT
Generally, the servicer will have the option to purchase the motor vehicle loans
of each trust on any payment date when the aggregate principal balance of the
motor vehicle loans sold to the trust has declined to the percentage specified
in the prospectus supplement or less of the initial principal balance. Upon the
purchase of the motor vehicle loans, the securities of that trust will be
prepaid in full.
THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS AND OTHER TRUST PROPERTY
The motor vehicle loans included in each trust will be retail installment sale
contracts and purchase money notes and other notes secured by new and used
automobiles and light-duty trucks and other property, including:
o the rights to receive payments made on the motor vehicle loans on and
after the cutoff date specified in the related prospectus supplement,
o security interests in the vehicles financed by the motor vehicle loans
and
o any proceeds from claims on various related insurance policies.
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You will find a description of the characteristics of the trust's motor vehicle
loans in the prospectus supplement.
FOR A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS, INCLUDING THE
CRITERIA THEY MUST MEET IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED IN A TRUST, AND THE OTHER
PROPERTY SUPPORTING THE SECURITIES, REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS
ENTITLED "THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS."
OTHER PROPERTY OF THE TRUST
In addition to the motor vehicle loans, each trust will own amounts on deposit
in various trust accounts, which may include:
o an account into which collections are deposited,
o an account to fund post-closing purchases of additional motor vehicle
loans,
o an account providing yield enhancement to the motor vehicle loans,
o one or more reserve accounts or other accounts providing credit
enhancement,
o an account into which deposits are made until applied to the notes on the
dates targeted for payment of principal or
o any other account identified in the prospectus supplement.
PURCHASE OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS AFTER THE CLOSING DATE
If a trust has not purchased all of its motor vehicle loans at the time you
purchase your securities, it will purchase the remainder of its motor vehicle
loans from Chase USA over a period, not to exceed one year, specified in the
prospectus supplement.
CREDIT OR PAYMENT ENHANCEMENT
The prospectus supplement will specify the credit or payment enhancement, if
any, for each trust. Credit or payment enhancement may consist of one or more of
the following:
o subordination of one or more classes of securities,
o excess spread, i.e., interest earned on the motor vehicle loans in excess
of the sum of the amount required to be paid on the securities and the
servicing fees and other expenses of the trust,
o one or more reserve accounts,
o a yield supplement agreement, account or other arrangement,
o overcollateralization, i.e., the amount by which the principal amount of
the motor vehicle loans exceeds the principal amount of all of the
trust's securities,
o a letter of credit or other credit or liquidity facility,
o a surety bond,
o a guaranteed investment contract,
o swaps or other interest rate protection agreements,
o repurchase obligations,
o other agreements with respect to third party payments or other support or
o cash deposits or other arrangements.
Limitations or exclusions from coverage could apply to any form of credit or
payment enhancement. The prospectus supplement will describe the credit or
payment enhancement and related limitations and exclusions applicable to
securities issued by a trust. Enhancements cannot guarantee that losses will not
be incurred on the securities.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CREDIT ENHANCEMENT REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS
PROSPECTUS ENTITLED, "TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS -- CREDIT AND CASH FLOW
ENHANCEMENT."
TRANSFER AND SERVICING OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
We will transfer a pool of motor vehicle loans to a trust under a sale and
servicing agreement. We will agree with the trust to be responsible for
servicing, managing, maintaining custody of and making collections on the motor
vehicle loans.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SALE AND SERVICING OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "TRANSFER AND SERVICING
AGREEMENTS -- SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS."
SERVICING FEES
Each trust will pay the servicer a servicing fee based on the outstanding
balance of the motor vehicle loans. The amount of the servicing fee will be in
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the related prospectus supplement. The servicer will also be entitled to retain
as supplemental servicing compensation the fees and charges paid by obligors. In
addition, if set forth in the related prospectus supplement, the servicer will
be entitled to receive investment income on amounts on deposit in the trust's
accounts.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SERVICING COMPENSATION REFER TO THE SECTION OF THIS
PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS -- SERVICING -- SERVICING
COMPENSATION AND PAYMENT OF EXPENSES" AND THE CORRESPONDING SECTION IN THE
ATTACHED PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT.
SERVICER ADVANCES
The servicer may make advances of delinquent payments on the motor vehicle
loans. The related prospectus supplement will describe the terms and conditions
of those advances.
If the servicer makes advances, it will be entitled to reimbursement from other
collections of the trust for advances that are not repaid out of collections of
the related delinquent payments.
TAX STATUS
Unless the related prospectus supplement specifies that a trust will elect to be
treated as a FASIT for federal income tax purposes, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett,
special tax counsel, will deliver an opinion to the effect that, for federal
income tax purposes:
o any notes issued by the trust will be treated as debt and
o the trust will not be characterized as an association or a publicly
traded partnership taxable as a corporation.
Alternative characterizations of the trust and the certificates issued by the
trust are possible, but would not result in materially adverse tax consequences
to holders of the certificates.
If the related prospectus supplement specifies that a trust will elect to be
treated as a FASIT for federal income tax purposes, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett,
special tax counsel, will deliver an opinion to the effect that the trust will
be treated as a FASIT for federal income tax purposes. An effective FASIT
election will enable a trust to be treated as a pass through entity not subject
to United States federal entity level income tax (except with respect to certain
prohibited transactions) and to issue securities that would be treated as debt
for United States federal income tax purposes. The prospectus supplement for a
trust that elects FASIT treatment will provide additional information on the
FASIT provisions.
The opinions referred to in the preceding two paragraphs will be filed with the
SEC as an exhibit to a current report filed on Form 8-K at the time the related
securities are sold.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF FEDERAL TAX LAWS TO
YOUR SECURITIES REFER TO THE SECTION OF THE ATTACHED PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
ENTITLED "MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS."
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS
If you are investing the assets of an employee benefit plan, arrangement or
account that is subject to ERISA, the tax code or any similar laws or
regulations, or an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include the
assets of any employee benefit plan, arrangement or account, you should
carefully review the matters discussed in the section of this prospectus and in
the section of the attached prospectus supplement entitled "Employee Benefit
Plan Considerations" before investing in the securities.
FORM AND DENOMINATION
Your securities may be issued in definitive form or in book-entry form. If they
are issued in book-entry form, you will not receive your securities in
definitive form. You may purchase securities in the denominations set forth in
the prospectus supplement.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE FORM OF YOUR SECURITIES REFER TO THE
SECTION OF THIS PROSPECTUS ENTITLED "CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THE
SECURITIES -- BOOK-ENTRY REGISTRATION" AND
"--DEFINITIVE SECURITIES."
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RISK FACTORS
YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS IN DECIDING WHETHER TO
PURCHASE ANY OF THE SECURITIES.
INTERESTS OF OTHER PERSONS IN THE FINANCED VEHICLES COULD REDUCE THE FUNDS
AVAILABLE TO MAKE PAYMENTS ON YOUR SECURITIES.
If another person acquires a security or other interest in a financed
vehicle that is superior to the trust's security interest in the vehicle, some
or all of the proceeds from the sale of the vehicle may not be available to make
payments on the securities.
The trust's security interest in the financed vehicles could be impaired
for one or more of the following reasons:
o Chase USA, or if the motor vehicle loan was originated by an affiliate of
Chase USA, that affiliate, might fail to perfect its security interest in
the related financed vehicle,
o another person may acquire an interest in a financed vehicle that is
superior to the trust's security interest through fraud, forgery,
negligence or error because neither Chase USA nor the trustee will amend
the certificate of title or ownership to identify the trust as the new
secured party,
o the trust may not have a security interest in the financed vehicles in
certain states because the certificates of title for the financed
vehicles will not be amended to reflect the assignment of a security
interest in the financed vehicles to the trust and may not have been
amended to reflect an earlier assignment of a security interest in the
financed vehicles to Chase USA by the affiliate of Chase USA who
originated the related motor vehicle loan,
o holders of some types of liens, such as tax liens or mechanics liens, may
have priority over the trust's security interest and
o the trust may lose its security interest in financed vehicles confiscated
by the government.
Chase USA will not be required to repurchase a motor vehicle loan if the
security interest in the related financed vehicle or the motor vehicle loan
becomes impaired after it sold the motor vehicle loan to the trust.
OUR INSOLVENCY COULD RESULT IN ACCELERATED, DELAYED OR REDUCED PAYMENTS TO YOU.
We are chartered as a national banking association and are subject to
regulation and supervision by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. If
we become insolvent, are in an unsound condition or engage in violations of our
bylaws or regulations, the Comptroller is authorized to appoint the FDIC, as
conservator or receiver. Under these circumstances, the FDIC could:
o require the trustee to go through an administrative claims procedure to
establish its rights to payments collected on the motor vehicle loans,
o request a stay of proceedings with respect to the trust's claims against
us or
o repudiate without compensation our ongoing obligations under a sale and
servicing agreement, such as our duty to collect payments or otherwise
service the motor vehicle loans.
If the FDIC were to take any of those actions, payments of principal and
interest on your securities could be delayed or reduced.
By statute, the FDIC as conservator or receiver is authorized to repudiate
any "contracts" of Chase USA upon payment of "actual direct compensatory
damages." This authority may be interpreted by the FDIC to permit it to
repudiate the transfer of motor vehicle loans to a trust. Under a recently
enacted FDIC regulation, however, the FDIC as conservator or receiver will not
reclaim, recover or recharacterize a bank's transfer of financial assets if
certain conditions are met, including that the transfer qualifies for sale
accounting treatment, was made for adequate consideration and was not made
fraudulently, in contemplation of insolvency, or with the intent to hinder,
delay or defraud the bank or its creditors. We believe the new FDIC regulation
will apply to the transfer of motor vehicle loans to a trust in the manner
contemplated by this prospectus and intend on satisfying the conditions of the
regulation.
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If a condition required under the FDIC regulation, or other statutory or
regulatory requirement applicable to the transaction, were found not to have
been satisfied, the FDIC as conservator or receiver might refuse to recognize
Chase USA's transfer of the motor vehicle loans to the trust. In that event the
trust could be limited to seeking recovery based upon its security interest in
the motor vehicle loans. The FDIC's statutory authority has been interpreted by
the FDIC and at least one court to permit the repudiation of a security interest
upon payment of actual direct compensatory damages measured as of the date of
conservatorship or receivership. These damages do not include lost profits or
opportunity, and no damages would be paid for the period between the date of
conservatorship or receivership and the date of repudiation. The FDIC could
delay its decision whether to recognize Chase USA's transfer of the motor
vehicle loans for a reasonable period following its appointment as conservator
or receiver for the bank. If the FDIC were to refuse to recognize Chase USA's
transfer of the motor vehicle loans, payments of principal and interest on your
securities could be delayed or reduced.
ONLY THE ASSETS OF THE TRUST ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY YOUR SECURITIES.
Neither we nor any of our affiliates are obligated to make any payments in
respect of the securities of a trust or the motor vehicle loans owned by a
trust. Therefore, you must rely solely on the assets of the trust for repayment
of your securities. If these assets are insufficient, you may suffer losses on
your securities.
The assets of a trust will consist solely of its motor vehicle loans and,
to the extent specified in the prospectus supplement, various deposit accounts
and any credit or payment enhancement.
AMOUNTS ON DEPOSIT IN ANY ACCOUNT PROVIDING CREDIT ENHANCEMENT OR OTHER
CREDIT ENHANCEMENT PROVIDED WILL BE LIMITED AND SUBJECT TO DEPLETION. The amount
required to be on deposit in any account providing credit enhancement or any
other credit enhancement will be limited in amount. If the amount is depleted to
cover shortfalls in distributions of principal and interest on your securities,
the trust will depend solely on collections on the motor vehicle loans and any
other credit or payment enhancement to make payments on your securities. In
addition, the minimum required balance in an account providing credit
enhancement may decrease as the outstanding balance of the motor vehicle loans
decreases.
YOU MAY SUFFER LOSSES UPON A LIQUIDATION OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS IF THE
PROCEEDS OF THE LIQUIDATION ARE LESS THAN THE AMOUNTS DUE ON THE OUTSTANDING
SECURITIES. Under the circumstances described in this prospectus, the motor
vehicle loans of a trust may be sold after the occurrence of an event of
default. The related securityholders will suffer losses if the trust sells the
motor vehicle loans for less than the total amount due on its securities. We
cannot assure you that sufficient funds would be available to repay those
securityholders in full.
DELAYS IN COLLECTING PAYMENTS COULD OCCUR IF WE CEASE TO BE THE SERVICER.
If we were to cease acting as the servicer, the processing of payments on
the motor vehicle loans and information relating to collections could be
delayed, which could delay payments to you. We can be removed as servicer if we
default on our servicing obligations as described in this prospectus. We may
also resign as servicer under the circumstances described in this prospectus.
SUBORDINATION MAY CAUSE SOME CLASSES OF SECURITIES TO BEAR ADDITIONAL CREDIT
RISK.
The rights of the holders of any class of securities to receive payments of
interest and principal may be subordinated to one or more other classes of
securities or to the rights of other parties such as swap counterparties.
Holders of subordinated classes of securities will bear more credit risk
than senior classes. Subordination may take the following forms:
o interest payments on any date on which interest is due may first be
allocated to the more senior classes or to other parties such as swap
counterparties,
o principal payments on the subordinated classes might not begin until the
principal of the more senior classes is repaid in full,
o principal payments on the more senior classes may be made on a payment
date before interest payments on the subordinated classes are made,
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o subordinated classes bear the risk of losses on the motor vehicle loans
and the resulting cash shortfalls before the more senior classes and
o if the trustee sells the motor vehicle loans after an event of default,
the net proceeds of that sale may be allocated first to pay principal and
interest on the more senior classes.
The timing and priority of payment, seniority, allocations of losses and
methods of determining payments on the respective classes of securities of any
trust will be described in the related prospectus supplement.
PREPAYMENTS ON THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT THE AVERAGE LIFE OF
AND RATE OF RETURN ON YOUR SECURITIES.
Faster than expected prepayments on the motor vehicle loans will cause the
trust to make payments on its securities earlier than expected. You may not be
able to reinvest the principal repaid to you at a rate of return that is equal
to or greater than the rate of return on your securities. We cannot predict the
effect of prepayments on the average life of your securities.
All the motor vehicle loans by their terms may be prepaid at any time.
Prepayments include:
o prepayments in whole or in part by the obligor,
o liquidations due to default,
o partial payments with proceeds from physical damage, credit life and
disability insurance policies,
o a required repurchase of a motor vehicle loan by Chase USA as seller or
servicer resulting from a breach of representation, warranty or covenant
and
o an optional repurchase of a trust's motor vehicle loans by Chase USA as
servicer when their aggregate principal balance is equal to or less than
the percentage of the initial aggregate principal balance specified in
the related prospectus supplement.
A variety of economic, social and other factors will influence the rate of
optional prepayments on the motor vehicle loans and the rate of defaults.
The final payment of each class of securities is expected to occur prior to
its final scheduled payment date because of the prepayment and purchase
considerations set forth above. If sufficient funds are not available to pay any
class of notes in full on its final payment date, an event of default will occur
and final payment of that class of notes will occur later than its final payment
date.
In addition, Chase USA as servicer may, on a case-by-case basis, permit
extensions of the due dates of payments on the motor vehicle loans in accordance
with its normal and customary servicing practices and procedures. Deferral or
extensions may increase the weighted average life of the securities. The
servicer will not be permitted to grant an extension or deferral if as a result
the final scheduled payment date on a motor vehicle loan would fall on or after
the final payment date of the related securities unless the servicer purchases
the affected motor vehicle loan.
YOU MAY SUFFER LOSSES ON YOUR SECURITIES BECAUSE CHASE USA AS SERVICER WILL HOLD
COLLECTIONS AND COMMINGLE THEM WITH ITS OWN FUNDS.
Provided that the conditions established by the rating agencies rating the
securities issued by a trust are satisfied, the servicer will generally be
permitted to hold with its own funds collections received from obligors on the
motor vehicle loans held by that trust until the day prior to the next date on
which distributions are made on the securities issued by that trust. During this
time, the servicer may invest those amounts at its own risk and for its own
benefit and need not segregate them from its own funds. If it is unable for any
reason to pay these amounts to the trust on the payment date, you might incur a
loss on your securities.
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ADDITIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS THAN THE
INITIAL POOL OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS.
A trust may not have purchased all of its motor vehicle loans at the time
you purchase your securities. It may purchase the remainder of its motor vehicle
loans from Chase USA over a period specified in the related prospectus
supplement. The additional motor vehicle loans will not be required to have any
particular characteristics. The additional motor vehicle loans may be originated
by Chase USA at a later date using criteria different from those applied to the
initial pool of motor vehicle loans and may be of a different credit quality and
seasoning. In addition, following the transfer of the additional motor vehicle
loans to the trust, the characteristics of the pool of motor vehicle loans held
by the trust may vary from those of the initial motor vehicle loans. As a result
the overall credit quality of the motor vehicle loan pool may decline. Any
resulting increase in defaults will result in an increased rate of prepayments
and a greater risk of loss.
YOU MAY EXPERIENCE A PREPAYMENT OF YOUR SECURITIES AS A RESULT OF PRE-FUNDING.
If the principal amount of additional motor vehicle loans transferred to a
trust during the funding period, not to exceed one year, specified in the
prospectus supplement is less than the amount set aside in a pre-funding account
on the closing date to purchase additional motor vehicle loans, the amount
remaining in that account at the end of the funding period will be applied to
the prepayment of the securities issued by the trust. The amount remaining in
the pre-funding account at the end of the funding period will depend on Chase
USA's ability to generate a sufficient amount of additional motor vehicle loans
during the funding period. Any premium paid to you with any prepayment may not
be sufficient to compensate you for any difference between the yield on your
securities and the yield at which you may reinvest the prepayment proceeds.
YOU MAY SUFFER LOSSES BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIMITED CONTROL OVER THE ACTIONS OF THE
TRUST.
Each trust will pledge its property to the indenture trustee to secure
payment of the notes, including its rights under the sale and servicing
agreement. As a result, the indenture trustee, not the holders of the
certificates issued by the trust, will have the right to take certain actions in
connection with the administration of the trust property, including, under
certain circumstances, selling the motor vehicle loans at the direction of the
noteholders. In addition, the noteholders will have the right to waive the
occurrence of a servicer default and to terminate Chase USA as servicer upon the
occurrence of a servicer default. The holders of the certificates will not have
these rights until the notes have been paid in full.
THE TRUSTS
We will establish a separate trust pursuant to a trust agreement in
connection with the issuance of each series of asset-backed notes and
asset-backed certificates.
PROPERTY OF TRUST
The property of each trust will include:
o a pool of motor vehicle loans and all payments due or received from the
obligors under those motor vehicle loans on and after the cutoff date
specified in the related prospectus supplement,
o amounts from time to time on deposit in trust accounts established and
maintained pursuant to the related sale and servicing agreement,
o security interests in the vehicles financed by the motor vehicle loans,
o our rights to proceeds of breach of representation and warranty claims
against the dealers from whom we acquired the motor vehicle loans,
o an assignment of our right to receive proceeds from claims on theft and
physical damage, credit life and credit disability insurance policies
covering the vehicles financed by the motor vehicle loans, or the
obligors under the motor vehicle loans, as the case may be,
o vehicles financed by the motor vehicle loans that have been repossessed
by the servicer on behalf of the trust,
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o certain rights under swap agreements or other interest rate protection
agreements, if any, and
o any and all proceeds of the above property.
If provided in the related prospectus supplement, the property of a trust
may include monies on deposit in a pre-funding account to be used to purchase
additional motor vehicle loans from Chase USA from time to time during the
funding period specified in the prospectus supplement.
If provided in the related prospectus supplement, the property of a trust
may include one or more reserve accounts maintained in the name of the related
indenture trustee, a yield supplement agreement and/or a yield supplement
account or other form of credit enhancement.
On or before the closing date of a trust, we will transfer a pool of motor
vehicle loans having an aggregate principal balance specified in the related
prospectus supplement to the trust in exchange for the securities issued by that
trust. If provided in the related prospectus supplement, we will convey to the
trust additional motor vehicle loans and the related property having an
aggregate principal balance approximately equal to the amount deposited in the
pre-funding account on the closing date as frequently as daily during the
funding period specified in the prospectus supplement. These motor vehicle loans
will also be assets of the trust.
THE TRUSTEE
The trustee for each trust will be specified in the related prospectus
supplement. The trustee's liability in connection with the issuance and sale of
the securities issued by the trust is limited solely to the express obligations
of the trustee set forth in the related trust agreement. The trustee under each
trust agreement will perform administrative functions.
A trustee may resign at any time by giving the administrator written notice
of its resignation. The administrator will be obligated to appoint a successor
trustee. The administrator may also remove the trustee if the trustee ceases to
be eligible to continue as trustee under the related trust agreement becomes
legally unable to act or becomes insolvent. In these circumstances, the
administrator will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. Any resignation
or removal of a trustee and appointment of a successor trustee will not become
effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor trustee. The
administrator will be obligated to indemnify the trustee. If the administrator
does not provide indemnification to the trustee, the trustee may be indemnified
from the assets of the related trust. No indemnification will be permitted to be
paid on any payment date until the holders of the securities issued by the trust
and the servicer have been paid all amounts otherwise due to them on that date
and the amount on deposit in any enhancement account equals its required amount.
The principal offices of each trust and the entity named as trustee of that
trust will be specified in the related prospectus supplement.
CHASE USA
Chase USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JP Morgan Chase & Co., was formed
in 1982 and is headquartered in Newark, Delaware. Chase USA is currently
chartered as a national bank and as such is regulated primarily by the United
States Comptroller of the Currency. Chase USA's activities are predominantly
related to credit card lending and other forms of consumer lending.
The principal executive office of Chase USA is located at 200 White Clay
Center Drive, Newark, Delaware 19711, telephone number (302) 575-5000.
On December 31, 2000, J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated and The Chase
Manhattan Corporation completed their merger, with the surviving corporation
being named J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. On November 11, 2001, The Chase Manhattan
Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York completed their merger, with
the surviving bank being named JPMorgan Chase Bank. JPMorgan Chase Bank and
Chase USA are the principal banking subsidiaries of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
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THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
GENERAL
Chase USA, together with its affiliates, is engaged in the automotive
financing and automotive loan servicing business. Chase USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank
and/or one or more of their affiliates engaged in the automotive finance
business may originate or acquire the motor vehicle loans to be transferred to a
trust.
The motor vehicle loans to be transferred to a trust may include:
o motor vehicle retail installment sales contracts relating to new or used
automobiles and light-duty trucks purchased from dealers who regularly
originate and sell these contracts to the originating banks in accordance
with approved dealer agreements,
o purchase money loans secured by new or used automobiles and light-duty
trucks made by the originating banks directly,
o purchase money loans secured by new or used automobiles and light-duty
trucks made pursuant to arrangements with dealers in accordance with
approved dealer agreements or
o motor vehicle retail installment sales contracts relating to, and
purchase money loans secured by, new or used automobiles and light-duty
trucks purchased by the originating banks from other originators of motor
vehicle loans.
The motor vehicle loans to be held by each trust will be selected from the
motor vehicle loans that Chase USA originates itself and from those that Chase
USA acquires from its affiliates or other originators. Selection will be based
upon several criteria, including, unless otherwise provided in the related
prospectus supplement, that each motor vehicle loan:
o was either
o acquired from or made through a dealer located in the United States,
o made directly by one of the originating banks in the United States
without the involvement of a dealer or
o acquired from another originator of motor vehicle loans,
o is secured by a financed vehicle that, as of the cutoff date specified in
the related prospectus supplement, had not been repossessed without
reinstatement,
o has not been identified on our computer files as relating to an obligor
who was in a bankruptcy proceeding as of the cutoff date specified in the
related prospectus supplement,
o if not a FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLE or a DEFERRED PAYMENT RECEIVABLE,
provides for fully amortizing level scheduled monthly payments, other
than the last payment, which may be different from the level payments,
o is an ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLE or a SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE and
o satisfies the other criteria, if any, set forth in the related sale and
servicing agreement and described in the related prospectus supplement.
We will not use any selection procedures that we believe to be materially
adverse to you in selecting the motor vehicle loans to be transferred to a
trust.
If we transfer any FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLES to a trust, we will transfer
to the trust only the principal and interest payments due prior to the final
scheduled payment and not the final scheduled payment. We will retain the final
scheduled payment. However, we will have the option to transfer the final
scheduled payments of the FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLES to the trust and to cause
that trust to issue certificates representing interests in, or notes secured by,
those final scheduled payments.
All of the motor vehicle loans will be prepayable at any time without
penalty and will contain due-on-sale provisions that require the obligors to
repay the motor vehicle loans when the related financed vehicles are sold. If an
obligor prepays a SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE in full, the obligor is required to
pay interest only to the date of
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prepayment. If an obligor prepays an ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLE in full, with minor
variations based upon state law, the obligor is entitled to a rebate calculated
on the basis of a constant interest rate.
If we repossess and sell the financed vehicle securing a delinquent motor
vehicle loan, we will apply the amounts recovered in accordance with our normal
and customary servicing practices and procedures. We reserve the right to change
our policies with respect to the application of amounts recovered from motor
vehicle loans that we liquidate and financed vehicles that we repossess and
sell.
We will provide information with respect to each pool of motor vehicle
loans transferred to a trust in the related prospectus supplement, including, to
the extent appropriate:
o the composition of the motor vehicle loans,
o the distribution by the annual contract rate of interest and by the
states of origination of those motor vehicle loans,
o the portion of the pool consisting of ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES, SIMPLE
INTEREST RECEIVABLES and any portions consisting of FINAL PAYMENT
RECEIVABLES or DEFERRED PAYMENT RECEIVABLES and
o the portion of the pool secured by new financed vehicles and the portion
of the pool secured by used financed vehicles.
The information in the prospectus supplement with respect to a pool of
motor vehicle loans transferred to a trust may be provided as of a statistical
cutoff date that is earlier than the applicable cutoff date for the trust.
Certain motor vehicle loans included in the statistical information in the
prospectus supplement may not be included in the motor vehicle loans transferred
to the trust on the closing date. In addition, the seller may select additional
motor vehicle loans to be transferred to the trust after that statistical cutoff
date. Any variations in the characteristics of the motor vehicle loans as of the
cutoff date from those characteristics presented as of the statistical cutoff
date in the prospectus supplement will not be material.
If a trust includes a pre-funding account, we will be obligated to sell,
subject to availability, and the trust will be obligated to purchase, subject to
the satisfaction of certain conditions, additional motor vehicle loans and the
related property having an aggregate principal balance approximately equal to
the amount deposited in the pre-funding account on the closing date. The
additional motor vehicle loans that we transfer to the trust will be required to
satisfy the eligibility criteria specified in the related sale and servicing
agreement, at the time of its addition. Except for those criteria, there will be
no required characteristics of the additional motor vehicle loans. Therefore,
following the transfer of additional motor vehicle loans to the trust, the
overall characteristics of the pool of motor vehicle loans held by the trust may
vary from those of the initial pool of motor vehicle loans transferred to the
trust. Those additional motor vehicle loans may be originated at a later date
using credit criteria different from those which were applied to the initial
pool of motor vehicle loans and may be of a different credit quality and
seasoning. If a trust includes a pre-funding account, the related prospectus
supplement will also describe the effects the addition of motor vehicle loans
may have on the pool of motor vehicle loans included in the trust. If a trust
acquires additional motor vehicle loans, regular periodic reports regarding
those loans will be included under Item 5 in each current report filed by or on
behalf of the trust on Form 8-K with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
DELINQUENCY AND LOAN LOSS INFORMATION
We will provide information in each prospectus supplement concerning the
delinquencies, loan losses and recoveries for the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO as of the
dates and for the periods set forth in the related prospectus supplement. We
cannot assure you that the delinquency and loan loss experience on any pool of
motor vehicle loans transferred to a trust will be comparable to prior
experience or to the information with respect to the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO in the
prospectus supplement.
The CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO has included from time to time motor vehicle loans
that were originated by affiliates of Chase USA or its predecessors using
origination criteria that were different but not materially different from the
then existing underwriting criteria of Chase USA or its predecessors. We believe
that the delinquency and loan loss experience for any period presented in a
prospectus supplement without the inclusion of those motor vehicle loans
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would not be materially different from the delinquency and
loan loss experience that will be set forth in the prospectus supplement.
If specified in the related prospectus supplement, we may transfer to a
trust motor vehicle loans that were made directly to obligors without the
involvement of dealers acting pursuant to dealer agreements with Chase USA or
one of its affiliates. However, the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO does not include motor
vehicle loans made directly by Chase USA and its affiliates to obligors without
the involvement of dealers and as a result the delinquency and loan loss
experience of the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO included in the related prospectus
supplement will not include the delinquency and loan loss experience for those
motor vehicle loans. We believe that the delinquency and loan loss experience
for those motor vehicle loans will not be materially different from the
delinquency and loan loss experience for the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO.
If specified in the related prospectus supplement, we may transfer to a
trust motor vehicle loans that were acquired by Chase USA from another
originator of motor vehicle loans. The CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO does not include
motor vehicle loans acquired from other originators and as a result the
delinquency and loan loss experience of the CHASE AUTO Portfolio included in the
related prospectus supplement will not include the delinquency and loan loss
experience for those motor vehicle loans. If we believe that including motor
vehicle loans acquired by Chase USA from other originators in the motor vehicle
loans being transferred to a trust will result in the performance of those motor
vehicle loans being materially different from the delinquency and loan loss
experience for the CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO, we will provide additional information
with respect to the motor vehicle loans acquired by Chase USA in the related
prospectus supplement.
ORIGINATION AND SERVICING OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
ORIGINATION. Chase USA purchases motor vehicle retail installment sales
contracts relating to new or used automobiles from dealers who regularly
originate those contracts pursuant to the terms of approved dealer agreements.
The dealers assign the contracts to Chase USA pursuant to standard form
assignments. Chase USA also makes purchase money loans secured by financed
vehicles directly or pursuant to arrangements with dealers made pursuant to
approved dealer agreements. Chase USA enters into dealer agreements with dealers
based upon a review of the dealer, including in some cases, a financial review,
and a review of the dealer's reputation and prior experience with the dealer and
its key management. Generally, the dealers selling new financed vehicles are
franchised by the manufacturer of those vehicles.
Chase USA currently makes or purchases motor vehicle loans made indirectly
with the involvement of dealers throughout the United States. Each dealer makes
representations and warranties to Chase USA with respect to the motor vehicle
loans, the obligors on the motor vehicle loans and the security interests in the
related financed vehicles. These representations and warranties typically
include, among others, that:
o to the best of the dealer's knowledge,
o no statements made or furnished by the obligor, the dealer or any other
person are untrue or incomplete,
o the obligor has not financed any down payment for the financed vehicle,
o the obligor is a bona fide applicant having legal capacity to contract
for a motor vehicle loan,
o the signature of the obligor on all documents is genuine and
o the amount stated in the motor vehicle loan to be due will in fact be
due and payable at the time or times provided, free of any claims,
defenses, setoffs or counterclaims,
o the dealer had indefeasible title to the financed vehicle immediately
prior to the purchase by the obligor, and had the right and authority to
sell the vehicle to the obligor, free and clear of all liens and
encumbrances,
o the dealer will secure and perfect for Chase USA a security interest in
the financed vehicle, free and clear of any liens or encumbrances and
o the description of the financed vehicle in the motor vehicle loan is true
and complete and the financed vehicle will be or has been duly delivered
to and accepted without revocation by the obligor.
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Generally, these representations and warranties do not relate to the
creditworthiness of the obligors or the ability to collect payments due on the
motor vehicle loans.
Upon breach of any representation or warranty made by a dealer, Chase USA
has a right of recourse against that dealer to require it to purchase or
repurchase the related motor vehicle loan. Generally, in determining whether to
exercise any right of recourse, Chase USA considers the prior performance of the
dealer, as well as other business and commercial factors. As servicer Chase USA
will be obligated to enforce its rights under the dealer agreements relating to
the motor vehicle loans transferred to a trust in accordance with its customary
practices. As seller Chase USA will convey the right to any proceeds received
upon enforcement of those rights to the related trust under the sale and
servicing agreement. It will make no representations as to the financial
condition of any of the dealers to which it may have recourse. We cannot assure
you as to the ability of any dealer to perform its obligations to Chase USA
under a dealer agreement.
Motor vehicle loans purchased from dealers may include motor vehicle loans
originated under manufacturer subvention programs. Subvention programs are
marketing tools of automobile manufacturers under which the manufacturers offer
reduced financing rates to retail customers as an incentive to purchase
automobiles. Subvention programs generally require the automobile manufacturer
to pay an amount to compensate Chase USA for offering the incentive interest
rate financing. Subvention compensation payments relating to motor vehicle loans
transferred to a trust will not be property of the trust.
Motor vehicle loans purchased from dealers may include motor vehicle loans
originated under manufacturer programs allowing obligors to defer the initial
scheduled monthly payment under the loan for some period of time. These programs
are typically limited to certain makes and models of vehicles and are offered
only to certain eligible obligors.
Chase USA and the other originating banks make direct motor vehicle loans
to obligors at their branches or by accepting applications by phone. Since
dealers do not originate these motor vehicle loans under dealer agreements, the
representations and warranties customarily made by the dealers in the dealer
agreements are not made with respect to these motor vehicle loans. However, the
dealers and others selling the financed vehicles to the obligors make more
limited representations and warranties regarding the motor vehicle loans and the
related financed vehicles by accepting the proceeds of the motor vehicle loans
under a restrictive endorsement. These representations and warranties include a
representation that the financed vehicle is free and clear of all liens,
security interests and other claims and a warranty that the dealer, or the
obligor, if the seller of the vehicle is not a dealer, will apply for a
certificate of title for the financed vehicle showing only the obligor as the
owner of the financed vehicle and perfect a first priority security interest in
the financed vehicle in favor of the originating bank. If a motor vehicle loan
is made in connection with the refinancing of an existing loan, no one other
than the obligor will make any representations or warranties with respect to the
financed vehicle and the obligor alone will be responsible for securing and
perfecting the originating bank's security interest in the financed vehicle.
Chase USA and the other originating banks also make motor vehicle loans to
obligors by accepting loan applications via a number of internet sites offering
online shopping and financing. These motor vehicle loans are not made by dealers
acting pursuant to dealer agreements. However, where the financed vehicle is
paid for with a site draft containing a restrictive endorsement, the dealer
selling the financed vehicle and the internet provider make the same limited
representations and warranties regarding the motor vehicle loan and the related
financed vehicle that are made by a dealer accepting the proceeds of a direct
motor vehicle loan under a restrictive endorsement described above. Motor
vehicle loans not funded by site drafts containing restrictive endorsements are
funded by the originating bank through the internet provider. In those cases,
the internet provider makes similar limited representations and warranties
regarding the motor vehicle loans and the related financed vehicles.
Chase USA may from time to time acquire pools of motor vehicle loans from
the originators of those motor vehicle loans. All motor vehicle loans purchased
in a pool and transferred to a trust will be re-underwritten to our underwriting
standards at the time of their acquisition.
SERVICING. Chase USA, as servicer, directly and through one or more of its
affiliates, will service the motor vehicle loans transferred to each trust
consistent with its servicing policies and practices. Chase USA and its
affiliates perform the following functions on a centralized basis:
o payment of motor vehicle loan proceeds to dealers,
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o customer service,
o document files and computerized record keeping,
o vehicle title processing and
o automated collections.
Chase USA and its affiliates perform other servicing functions on a
regionalized basis through several regional dealer service centers. The
servicing functions performed by the dealer service centers include
o aspects of automobile dealer liaison,
o dealer sales,
o customer service,
o credit underwriting,
o documentation reviews,
o collections and
o other services.
An outside service provider enters credit application data relating to indirect
motor vehicle loans into the servicer's loan origination system.
Chase USA may change its servicing policies and practices over time in
accordance with its business judgment.
UNDERWRITING OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
We evaluate each applicant for a motor vehicle loan individually through
the appropriate dealer service center based on our uniform underwriting
standards. These underwriting standards are intended to assess the applicant's
ability to repay the motor vehicle loan and the adequacy of the financed vehicle
as collateral, based upon a review of the information contained in a loan
application form that generally lists the applicant's income, deposit accounts,
liabilities, credit history, employment history and a description of the
financed vehicle intended to secure the motor vehicle loan. We consider the
following criteria, among others, in evaluating individual applications:
o the obligor's stability, with specific regard to the obligor's length of
residence in the area and length of employment,
o the obligor's payment history based on our direct knowledge or as
provided by various credit reporting agencies with respect to present and
past debt,
o a debt-service-to-gross-monthly-income ratio test,
o a loan-to-value ratio test taking into account the age, type and market
value of the financed vehicle and
o a credit bureau score.
The amount advanced under any motor vehicle loan generally will not exceed
o for a new financed vehicle, 110% to 125% of the vehicle's invoice price
or
o for a used financed vehicle, 85% to 120% of the "average trade-in" value
stated in the most recently published National Automobile Dealer's
Association Official Used Car Price Guide for the applicable region,
plus taxes and title and license fees on the financed vehicle. However, the
maximum amount advanced on a motor vehicle loan may vary depending on a number
of factors, including the term of the motor vehicle loan and the model and year
of the financed vehicle. These adjustments are made to insure that the financed
vehicle constitutes adequate collateral to secure the motor vehicle loan.
In addition, whether a financed vehicle is new or used, we will also
finance credit life, accident and health insurance and service warranties under
a motor vehicle loan. Our general policy has been to reject applications for
motor vehicle loans where the prospective obligor's
debt-service-to-gross-monthly-income ratio exceeds 40%.
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We use an empirically based credit scoring process to objectively index the
applicant's creditworthiness. We created this scoring process using historical
information from our database of motor vehicle loans owned or serviced by us or
one of our affiliates . Through credit scoring, we evaluate credit profiles in
order to satisfactorily quantify credit risk. The credit scoring process entails
the use of statistics to correlate common characteristics with credit risk. We
periodically review and update the credit scoring process that we use to ensure
its validity. In addition to our scoring process, we use consumer reporting
agency scores to assist in the underwriting process. In January 1998, we
introduced, and in February 2001 we re-developed, custom credit scorecards to
enhance the underwriting process.
We use an automated approval and declination process for certain
applications based on selection criteria that were statistically derived from
our database of motor vehicle loans owned or serviced by us or one of our
affiliates. A credit analyst reviews applications that are not automatically
approved or denied. Except for the applications that are automatically approved
or denied, our scoring process and consumer reporting agency scores are intended
to provide a basis for lending decisions but are not meant to supersede the
judgment of the credit analyst. We approve motor vehicle loans that vary from
our standard credit guidelines, both before and after implementation of the
credit scoring process, but approval of those motor vehicle loans generally
requires concurrent approval of a second designated senior credit analyst or
credit manager. Motor vehicle loans that do not comply with all of our
guidelines must have strong compensating factors that indicate a high ability of
the applicant to repay the loan. Generally these motor vehicle loans are made
where the obligor has made a down payment and the amount financed is lower than
the maximum amount permitted by our guidelines.
We perform detailed analysis of our portfolio to evaluate the effectiveness
of our credit guidelines and scoring process. If external economic factors,
credit delinquencies or credit losses change, we adjust the credit guidelines to
maintain a level of asset quality that we deem acceptable. Each day, the credit
manager and credit supervisors of each of our dealer service centers review a
computer-selected group of motor vehicle loan applications to ensure that credit
analysts are following our established policies and procedures. We randomly
review, on a quarterly basis, the quality of the motor vehicle loans and conduct
quality audits to ensure compliance with our established policies and
procedures.
We may change our credit underwriting standards over time in accordance
with our business judgment.
INSURANCE
Each motor vehicle loan requires the obligor to obtain fire, theft and
collision insurance or comprehensive and collision insurance on the financed
vehicle. The dealer agreements include a representation and warranty from the
dealer that each financed vehicle has the required insurance at the time of
origination of the motor vehicle loan.
Chase USA, as seller or servicer, does not and will not independently
verify whether obligors obtain or maintain the required insurance either at or
after the origination of a motor vehicle loan. We monitor our loss experience
with respect to financed vehicles that are not properly insured.
We reserve the right to change our policies with respect to insurance on
financed vehicles in accordance with our business judgment.
As a result of a New York law, we do not to obligate the obligors under
motor vehicle loans originated through New York dealers to pay the so-called
"GAP amount" in the event of a total loss of the vehicle caused by its theft,
confiscation or physical damage. The "GAP amount" that the obligor will not be
obligated to pay is the difference between the amount owed on the motor vehicle
loan as of the date of the total loss and the sum of
o any unpaid monthly payments, unpaid late fees and other unpaid amounts
due prior to the date of the total loss, plus
o the vehicle's actual cash value as of the date of the total loss.
If the obligor has maintained the insurance required under the motor vehicle
loan, the vehicle's actual cash value will be the cash value under the insurance
policy, inclusive of the deductible, which the motor vehicle loan specifies may
be no higher than $500. If the obligor has not maintained the required
insurance, the vehicle's actual cash value will be the "average trade" value of
the vehicle in the most recently published National Automobile Dealer's
Association Official Used Car Guide for the applicable region as of the date of
the total loss. We do not and will not maintain third-party insurance of any
kind against this risk. We do not have any data on our historical loss
experience resulting from this risk.
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COLLECTION PROCEDURES
Chase USA, as servicer, will perform collection activities with respect to
delinquent motor vehicle loans included in a trust consistent with its servicing
policies and practices. Collection activities include prompt investigation and
evaluation of the causes of any delinquency. An obligor is deemed current if an
amount equal to no more than 10% of a scheduled monthly payment remains unpaid.
We use an automated collection system to assist us in collection efforts.
The automated collection system provides us with relevant obligor information,
such as current addresses, phone numbers and loan information, records of all
contacts with obligors and, in some cases, automated dialing. The system records
an obligor's promise to pay. The system
o allows supervisor review of collection personnel activity,
o permits supervisors to modify priorities as to which obligors should be
contacted and
o provides extensive reports concerning motor vehicle loan delinquencies.
Under our current practices, we make contact by mail with an obligor whose
motor vehicle loan generally has become 10 days delinquent and attempt to make
contact by telephone with an obligor whose motor vehicle loan is more than 11
days delinquent. Generally, we commence repossession procedures when a motor
vehicle loan is delinquent for 90 days. However, if:
o a motor vehicle loan is deemed uncollectible,
o the financed vehicle is deemed by our collection personnel to be in
danger of being damaged, destroyed or made unavailable for repossession
or
o the obligor voluntarily surrenders the financed vehicle,
we may repossess the financed vehicle without regard to length or existence of a
payment delinquency.
Repossessions are generally conducted by third parties who are engaged in
the business of repossessing vehicles for secured parties. After repossession,
the obligor generally has an additional 10 to 30 days to redeem the financed
vehicle before we sell the financed vehicle. Upon repossession of the financed
vehicle, we generally sell the financed vehicle in an auction. After the sale of
the financed vehicle, we will pursue any deficiency remaining to the extent we
deem practical and to the extent permitted by law.
Losses may occur in connection with delinquent motor vehicle loans. Losses
can arise in several ways, including
o the inability to locate the financed vehicle or the obligor or
o the discharge of the obligor in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Generally, we recognize losses on motor vehicle loans:
o during the calendar month in which we repossess and sell a financed
vehicle if the repossession and sale takes place at or before the
calendar month in which more than 10% of a scheduled payment of the
related motor vehicle loan becomes 120 days delinquent,
o during the calendar month in which more than 10% of a scheduled payment
of a motor vehicle loan becomes 120 days delinquent if we have not
repossessed the related financed vehicle by the end of that calendar
month,
o at any earlier time as we deem a motor vehicle loan uncollectible or
o at such other time or in such a manner as we believed or believe is
appropriate in accordance with our normal and customary servicing
practices and procedures.
In any event, we recognize a loss on a delinquent motor vehicle loan no later
than the calendar month in which more than 10% of a scheduled payment on the
motor vehicle loan becomes 240 days delinquent.
We may change our loss recognition and collection policies and practices
over time in accordance with our business judgment.
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We may, on a case-by-case basis, extend the due dates of payments on motor
vehicle loans in accordance with our normal and customary servicing practices
and procedures. These practices and procedures are described more fully in the
attached prospectus supplement.
WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE OF THE SECURITIES
The weighted average life of the securities issued by a trust will
generally be influenced by the rate at which the principal balances of the motor
vehicle loans held by the trust are paid. Principal payments come in the form of
scheduled principal payments and prepayments. Prepayments can result from
o prepayments of motor vehicle loans in full,
o partial prepayments of motor vehicle loans,
o liquidations due to default,
o receipts of proceeds from theft and physical damage, credit life and
credit disability insurance policies covering financed vehicles or
obligors and
o repurchases of motor vehicle loans by the seller or purchases of motor
vehicle loans by the servicer for administrative reasons.
Obligors may prepay motor vehicle loans at any time.
If the property of a trust includes a pre-funding account, the securities
issued by that trust will be subject to partial redemption on or immediately
following the end of the funding period described in the related prospectus
supplement. If a trust includes a reserve account or other credit enhancement,
the securities issued by that trust will be subject to prepayments as a result
of withdrawals being made from the reserve account or payments being made under
the other enhancement in respect of defaulted motor vehicle loans.
The rate of prepayments on the motor vehicle loans may be influenced by a
variety of economic, social and other factors, including the fact that an
obligor may not sell or transfer the financed vehicle securing a motor vehicle
loan without our consent. Programs offered by lenders, such as Chase USA and its
affiliates, which solicit or make available credit that may be used by obligors
to prepay motor vehicle loans may also influence the rate of prepayment on the
motor vehicle loans. The credit offered may include home equity lines of credit,
consumer installment credit and credit cards. Chase USA and its affiliates may
in the ordinary course of business offer general or targeted solicitations for
extensions of credit. These solicitations may be sent to obligors. In addition,
each sale and servicing agreement will allow us to refinance an existing motor
vehicle loan for an obligor so long as the proceeds of the refinanced loan are
used to prepay the existing motor vehicle loan in full and the refinanced loan
is evidenced by a new promissory note. Any loan resulting from the refinancing
will not be the property of the related trust.
Because of the uncertain amount of prepayments on the motor vehicle loans
included in a trust, we cannot assure you of the amount of principal payments
that will be made on the securities issued by that trust on each payment date.
Holders of the securities alone will bear the reinvestment risks resulting from
a faster or slower incidence of prepayments on the motor vehicle loans. A
prospectus supplement may set forth additional information with respect to the
maturity and prepayment considerations applicable to a particular pool of motor
vehicle loans and the related securities.
We maintain records of the historical prepayment experience of portions of
our portfolio of motor vehicle loans. We believe that these records are not
adequate to provide meaningful information with respect to the motor vehicle
loans to be included in any trust. In any event, we cannot give you any
assurance that prepayments on a given pool of motor vehicle loans would conform
to our historical experience. We cannot predict the actual prepayment experience
of any pool of motor vehicle loans.
In addition, as servicer we may grant extensions on payments on the motor
vehicle loans under limited circumstances. The related prospectus supplement
will contain a description of the terms and conditions under which the motor
vehicle loans included in a particular trust may be extended or modified. Any
deferrals or extensions of those motor vehicle loans may increase the weighted
average life of the related securities.
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If an obligor under a SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE, in addition to making his
or her regularly scheduled payment, makes one or more additional scheduled
payments in any COLLECTION PERIOD, we will treat the additional scheduled
payments made in that COLLECTION PERIOD as a principal prepayment and we will
apply it to reduce the principal balance of the related motor vehicle loan in
that COLLECTION PERIOD. As a result of that prepayment, unless otherwise
requested by the obligor, the obligor will not be required to make any scheduled
payment in respect of that motor vehicle loan for the number of due dates
corresponding to the number of additional scheduled payments he made. During
that period interest will continue to accrue on the outstanding principal
balance of the prepaid motor vehicle loan and the obligor's account will not be
considered delinquent. The related prospectus supplement will describe any
obligation of Chase USA as servicer to make ADVANCES in respect of those unpaid
interest payments.
When the obligor resumes his or her required payments, his regularly
scheduled payments may be insufficient to cover the interest that has accrued
since his last payment. Nonetheless the obligor's prepaid motor vehicle loan
would be considered current. This situation will continue until the regularly
scheduled payments are once again sufficient to cover all accrued interest and
to reduce the principal balance of the prepaid motor vehicle loan. Depending on
the principal balance and interest rate of the related motor vehicle loan and on
the number of payments that were prepaid, there may be extended periods of time
during which such a motor vehicle loan is current but not amortizing.
Prepaid SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLES in any trust will affect the weighted
average life of the securities issued by the trust. The distribution of the
prepaid amount to the holders of the securities on the payment date following
the COLLECTION PERIOD in which the amount was received will generally shorten
the weighted average life of the securities. In addition, to the extent we make
any ADVANCES of interest with respect to a prepaid SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE
which subsequently goes into default, the loss on that motor vehicle loan may be
larger than would have been the case had the ADVANCES not been made because the
liquidation proceeds from that motor vehicle loan will be applied first to
reimburse us for the ADVANCES.
Our portfolio of motor vehicle loans has historically included motor
vehicle loans that have been prepaid by one or more scheduled monthly payments.
We cannot assure you as to the number of motor vehicle loans that may become
prepaid SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLES or the number or the principal amounts of
the scheduled payments that may be prepaid.
If an obligor under any ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLE, in addition to making his or
her regularly scheduled payment, makes one or more additional scheduled payments
in any COLLECTION PERIOD, we may deposit the additional scheduled payments made
in that COLLECTION PERIOD into an account for the related trust and apply them
as described in the related prospectus supplement. No shortfalls in payment of
interest or principal will result when prepaid amounts on ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES
are deposited into an account on behalf of the trust.
HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING OF YOUR SECURITIES
As servicer we will provide to you in each report which we deliver to you a
factor which you can use to compute your portion of the principal amount
outstanding of your securities.
We will compute a separate factor for each class of notes. The factor for
each class of notes will be an eight-digit decimal which we will calculate prior
to each payment date. The note factor will equal the remaining outstanding
principal balance of that class of notes as of the applicable payment date,
after giving effect to payments to be made on that payment date, as a fraction
of the initial outstanding principal balance of that class of notes. Your
portion of each class of notes will equal the product of
o the original denomination of your note and
o the factor relating to your class of notes.
We will compute a separate factor for each class of certificates. The
factor for each class of certificates will be an eight-digit decimal which we
will calculate prior to each payment date. The certificate factor will equal the
remaining balance of that class of certificates as of the applicable payment
dates, after giving effect to distributions to be made on that payment date, as
a fraction of the initial stated certificate balance of that class of
certificates. Your portion of each class of certificates will equal the product
of
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o the original denomination of your certificate and
o the factor relating to your class of certificates.
Each factor will be 1.00000000 as of the cutoff date specified in the
prospectus supplement for that series of securities and will decline to reflect
reductions in the outstanding principal balance of the applicable class of notes
or the reduction of the initial stated certificate balance of the applicable
class of certificates.
As servicer we will provide to you monthly reports concerning:
o payments received on the motor vehicle loans included in the trust,
o the aggregate principal balance of those motor vehicle loans as of the
last day of the preceding Collection Period, calculated as described in
the related prospectus supplement,
o each factor relating to each class of securities issued by the trust and
o various other items of information that will be specified in the related
prospectus supplement.
In addition, you will be provided information for tax reporting purposes not
later than the latest date permitted by law.
USE OF PROCEEDS
We will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the securities of a trust
as follows:
o if the trust has a pre-funding account, to make a capital contribution to
the trust by making a deposit into that account,
o if the trust has a yield supplement account, to make a capital
contribution to the trust by making a deposit into that account,
o if the trust has a reserve account, to make a capital contribution to the
trust by making the initial deposit into that account and
o for any other purposes specified in the related prospectus supplement.
We will add the remaining funds received by us to our general funds.
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PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS
In general, the operations of a trust will be governed by the following
documents:
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DOCUMENT PARTIES PRIMARY PURPOSES
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Trust Agreement Trustee and Chase USA, o creates the trust
as depositor
o provides for issuance of
Class R certificates and
the certificates and
payments to
certificateholders and
Chase USA as holder of
the Class R certificates
o establishes the rights and
duties of the trustee
o establishes the rights of
certificateholders
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Indenture Trust, as issuer of the notes, and o provides for issuance of
Indenture Trustee the notes, the terms of
the notes and payments to
noteholders
o establishes the rights and
duties of the indenture
trustee
o establishes the rights of
noteholders
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Sale and Servicing Agreement Chase USA, as seller and o effects transfer of motor
servicer, and the Trust vehicle loans to the trust
o contains representations
and warranties of Chase
USA, as seller, concerning
the motor vehicle loans
o contains servicing
obligations
o provides for compensation
of the servicer
o directs how proceeds of
the motor vehicle loans
will be applied to the
expenses of the trust and
payments on the securities
issued by the trust
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Various provisions of these documents are described throughout this
prospectus and will be described in the related prospectus supplement. The
prospectus supplement for a trust will describe any material provisions of the
documents relating to that trust that differ in a material way from the
provisions described in this prospectus.
A form of each of these principal documents has been filed as an exhibit to
the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. The summaries
of the principal documents in this prospectus do not purport to be complete and
are subject to, and are qualified in their entirety by reference to, all the
provisions of those principal documents.
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PAYMENTS ON THE SECURITIES
The prospectus supplement relating to the securities issued by a particular
trust will describe
o the timing, amount and priority of payments of principal and interest on
each class of those securities,
o their interest rates or the formula for determining their interest rates,
o the method of determining the amount of their principal payments,
o the priority of the application of the trust's available funds to its
expenses and payments on its securities and
o the allocation of losses on the motor vehicle loans included in that
trust among the classes of those securities.
The rights of any class of securities to receive payments may be senior or
subordinate to other classes of securities. A security may be entitled to
principal payments with disproportionate, nominal or no interest payments or
interest payments with disproportionate, nominal or no principal payments or
residual cash flow remaining after all other classes have been paid. Interest
rates may be fixed or floating.
One or more classes of securities may have fixed principal payment
schedules, including a targeted scheduled payment date on which the securities
are paid in full. The trust issuing these securities may have issued variable
funding securities or have a liquidity facility or similar arrangement that
permits it to make those scheduled payments. If a class of securities is
redeemable or subject to prepayment, the prospectus supplement will describe
when the securities may be redeemed or prepaid and at what price, including any
premium payable. The aggregate initial principal amount of the securities issued
by a trust may be greater than, equal to or less than the aggregate initial
principal amount of the motor vehicle loans held by that trust.
Payments of principal and interest on any class of securities will be made
on a pro rata basis among all the securityholders of such class. If the amount
of funds available to make a payment on a class is less than the required
payment, the holders of the securities of that class will receive their pro rata
share of the amount available for the class.
One or more classes of notes issued by a trust may have a final scheduled
payment date of less than 397 days from the date of the related prospectus
supplement and that class or those classes may have received a short-term rating
by a rating agency that is in one of the two highest short-term rating
categories. The failure to pay a class of notes on or prior to the related final
payment date will constitute an EVENT OF DEFAULT under the related indenture.
CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THE SECURITIES
FIXED RATE SECURITIES
Each class of fixed rate securities will bear interest at the applicable
per annum interest rate or pass-through rate, as the case may be, specified in
the related prospectus supplement. Interest on each class of fixed rate
securities may be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months or on such other day count basis as is specified in the related
prospectus supplement.
FLOATING RATE SECURITIES
Each class of floating rate securities will bear interest for each
applicable interest accrual period described in the related prospectus
supplement at a rate per annum determined by reference to a base rate, plus or
minus the number of basis points specified in the prospectus supplement, if any,
or multiplied by the percentage specified in the prospectus supplement, if any
or as otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement. Interest on each
class of floating rate securities will be computed on the day count basis
specified in the related prospectus supplement.
The base rate of interest for any floating rate securities will be based on
the London interbank offered rate, commercial paper rates, federal funds rates,
U.S. government treasury securities rates, negotiable certificates of deposit
rates or another rate set forth in the related prospectus supplement.
A class of floating rate securities may also have either or both of the
following, in each case expressed as a rate per annum:
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o a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at which interest may
accrue during any interest accrual period and
o a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest may accrue
during any interest accrual period.
In addition to any maximum interest rate that may be applicable to any
class of floating rate securities, the interest rate applicable to any class of
floating rate securities will in no event be higher than the maximum rate
permitted by applicable law.
Each trust issuing floating rate securities may appoint a calculation agent
to calculate interest rates on each class of its floating rate securities. The
related prospectus supplement will identify the calculation agent, if any, for
each class of floating rate securities, which may be either the trustee or the
indenture trustee for the trust. All determinations of interest by the
calculation agent will, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all
purposes and binding on the holders of the floating rate securities of a given
class.
BOOK-ENTRY REGISTRATION
Following is a description of the form your securities, whether
certificates or notes, may take. We also describe how your securities may be
transferred and how payments may be made to you.
The information in this section concerning DTC and its book-entry system
has been provided by DTC. We have not independently verified the accuracy of
this information.
Each class of securities issued by a trust may be represented by one or
more global certificates registered in the name of Cede & Co., DTC's nominee.
Accordingly, Cede is expected to be the holder of record of each series of
securities issued in book-entry form. This means that you, as an owner of
securities, will generally not be entitled to DEFINITIVE SECURITIES representing
your interest in the issued securities. You will own securities through a
book-entry record maintained by DTC. Your interests in the global securities
will be represented through financial institutions acting on your behalf as
direct and indirect participants in DTC. You may hold your securities through
DTC in the U.S., CLEARSTREAM or the EUROCLEAR system in Europe or in any manner
described in the related prospectus supplement. CLEARSTREAM and EUROCLEAR will
hold positions on behalf of their customers or participants through their
respective depositaries, which in turn will hold such positions in accounts as
DTC participants.
If a class of securities is issued in book-entry form, all references in
this prospectus and in the related prospectus supplement to actions by holders
of such class of securities refer to actions taken by DTC upon instructions from
its participating organizations and all references in this prospectus and in the
related prospectus supplement to distributions, notices, reports and statements
to holders of such class of securities refer to distributions, notices, reports
and statements to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered
holder of such class of securities, for distribution to the holders of such
class of securities in accordance with DTC's procedures. Conveyance of notices
and other communications by DTC to DTC participants, by DTC participants to
indirect participants, and by DTC participants and indirect participants to
securityholders will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any
statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time.
Any securities of a given trust owned by Chase USA or any of its affiliates
will be entitled to equal and proportionate benefits under the applicable
indenture or trust agreement, except that, unless Chase USA and its affiliates
own the entire class, such securities will be deemed not to be outstanding for
the purpose of determining whether the requisite percentage of securityholders
have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
other action under those documents.
The prospectus supplement will specify whether the holders of the notes or
certificates of a trust will hold their respective securities as global
securities in book-entry form under the DTC system. Any purchase that you make
of securities issued in book-entry form under the DTC system must be made by or
through a DTC participant, which will receive a credit for the securities on
DTC's records. Your ownership interest is in turn recorded on the DTC
participants' and indirect participants' records. You will not receive written
confirmation from DTC of your purchase, but you can expect to receive written
confirmation providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic
statements of your holdings, from the DTC participant or indirect participant
through which you entered into the transaction. Transfers of ownership interests
in the securities are accomplished by entries made on the books of DTC
participants acting on behalf of you and other securityholders.
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In addition, securityholders will receive all distributions of principal
and interest from the indenture trustee or the applicable trustee through the
participants who in turn will receive them from DTC. Under a book-entry format,
securityholders may experience some delay in their receipt of payments, since
such payments will be forwarded by the applicable trustee to DTC's nominee. DTC
will forward such payments to its participants which thereafter will forward
them to indirect participants or securityholders.
Distributions on securities held through CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR will be
credited to the cash accounts of CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS
in accordance with the relevant system's rules and procedures, to the extent
received by its depositary. Such distributions will be subject to tax reporting
in accordance with relevant U.S. tax laws and regulations.
Under the rules, regulations and procedures creating and affecting DTC and
its operations, DTC is required to make book-entry transfers of securities among
participants on whose behalf it acts and is required to receive and transmit
distributions of principal and interest on the securities it holds. Participants
and indirect participants with whom securityholders have accounts similarly are
required to make book-entry transfers and receive and transmit payments on
behalf of their respective securityholders. Accordingly, although
securityholders will not possess their respective securities, the rules provide
a mechanism by which participants will receive payments and will be able to
transfer their interests.
Because DTC can only act on behalf of participants, who in turn act on
behalf of indirect participants and certain banks, your ability to pledge
securities to persons or entities that do not participate in the DTC system, or
otherwise take actions with respect to such securities, may be limited due to
the lack of a physical certificate for the securities.
You will not be recognized as a securityholder by the trustee or the
indenture trustee. You will be permitted to exercise the rights of a
securityholder only indirectly through DTC and its participants. Neither DTC nor
Cede will consent or vote with respect to the securities issued by a trust.
Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an omnibus proxy to Chase USA as soon as
possible after the record date, which assigns Cede's consenting or voting rights
to those DTC participants to whose accounts the securities are credited on the
relevant record date. CLEARSTREAM and the EUROCLEAR operator, as the case may
be, will take any action permitted to be taken by a securityholder on behalf of
a CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT only in accordance with its
relevant rules and procedures and subject to its depositary's ability to effect
such actions on its behalf through DTC.
Except as required by law, none of the administrator, the applicable
trustee or the applicable indenture trustee will have any liability for any
aspect of the records relating to payments made on account of beneficial
ownership interests of the securities issued by any trust held by DTC,
CLEARSTREAM or the EUROCLEAR system or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing
any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
The global securities will be tradeable as home market instruments in both
the European and U.S. domestic markets. Initial settlement and all secondary
trades will settle in same-day funds.
INITIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE GLOBAL SECURITIES. Investors electing to hold
their global securities through DTC will follow the settlement practices that
apply to U.S. corporate debt obligations. Investor securities custody accounts
will be credited with their holdings against payment in same-day funds on the
settlement date. Investors electing to hold their global securities through
Clearstream or Euroclear accounts will follow the settlement procedures that
apply to conventional eurobonds, except that there will be no temporary global
security and no "lock-up" or restricted period. Global securities will be
credited to the securities custody accounts on the settlement date against
payment in same-day funds.
SECONDARY MARKET TRADING OF THE GLOBAL SECURITIES. Since the purchaser
determines the place of delivery, it is important to establish at the time of
the trade where both the purchaser's and seller's accounts are located to ensure
that settlement can be made on the desired value date.
--TRADING BETWEEN DTC PARTICIPANTS. Secondary market trading between DTC
participants will be settled using the procedures applicable to U.S. corporate
debt obligations in same-day funds.
--TRADING BETWEEN CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS AND/OR EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS.
Secondary market trading between CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS
will be settled using the procedures applicable to conventional eurobonds in
same-day funds.
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--TRADING BETWEEN DTC SELLER AND CLEARSTREAM OR EUROCLEAR PURCHASER. When
global securities are to be transferred from the account of a DTC participant to
the account of a CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER or a EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT, the purchaser
will send instructions to CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR through a CLEARSTREAM
CUSTOMER or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT at least one business day prior to settlement.
CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR will instruct the respective depositary, as the case
may be, to receive the global securities against payment. Payment will include
interest accrued on the global securities from and including the last interest
payment date to and excluding the settlement date. Payment will then be made by
the respective depositary to the DTC participant's account against delivery of
the global securities. After settlement has been completed, the global
securities will be credited to the respective clearing system and by the
clearing system, in accordance with its usual procedures, to the CLEARSTREAM
CUSTOMER'S or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT'S account. The securities credit will appear
the next day (European time) and the cash debit will be back-valued to, and the
interest on the global securities will accrue from, the value date (which would
be the preceding day when settlement occurred in New York). If settlement is not
completed on the intended value date (that is, the trade fails), the Clearstream
or Euroclear cash debit will be valued instead as of the actual settlement date.
CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS and EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS will need to make
available to the respective clearing systems the funds necessary to process
same-day funds settlement. The most direct means of doing this is to
pre-position funds for settlement, either from cash on hand or existing lines of
credit, as they would for any settlement occurring within CLEARSTREAM or
EUROCLEAR. Under this approach, they may take on credit exposure to CLEARSTREAM
or EUROCLEAR until the global securities are credited to their accounts one day
later.
As an alternative, if CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR has extended a line of
credit to them, CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS can elect not to
pre-position funds and allow that credit line to be drawn upon to finance
settlement. Under this procedure, CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANTS purchasing global securities would incur overdraft charges for one
day, assuming they cleared the overdraft when the global securities were
credited to their accounts. However, interest on the global securities would
accrue from the value date. Therefore, in many cases the investment income on
the global securities earned during that one-day period may substantially reduce
or offset the amount of such overdraft charges, although this result will depend
on each CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER'S or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT'S particular cost of
funds.
Since the settlement is taking place during New York business hours, DTC
participants can employ their usual procedures for sending global securities to
the respective depositary for the benefit of CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANTS. The sale proceeds will be available to the DTC seller on the
settlement date. Thus, to the DTC participant a cross-market transaction will
settle no differently than a trade between two DTC participants.
--TRADING BETWEEN CLEARSTREAM OR EUROCLEAR SELLER AND DTC PURCHASER. Due to
time zone differences in their favor, CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS and EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANTS may employ their customary procedures for transactions in which
global securities are to be transferred by the respective clearing system,
through the respective depositary, to a DTC participant. The seller will send
instructions to CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR through a CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER or
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT at least one business day prior to settlement. In these
cases, CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR will instruct the respective depositary, as
appropriate, to deliver the securities to the DTC participant's account against
payment. Payment will include interest accrued on the global securities from and
including the last coupon payment date to and excluding the settlement date. The
payment will then be reflected in the account of the CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER or
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT the following day, and receipt of the cash proceeds in the
CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER'S or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT'S account would be back-valued
to the value date (which would be the preceding day, when settlement occurred in
New York). Should the CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT have a line
of credit with its respective clearing system and elect to be in debit in
anticipation of receipt of the sale proceeds in its account, the back-valuation
will extinguish any overdraft charges incurred over that one-day period. If
settlement is not completed on the intended value date (that is, the trade
fails), receipt of the cash proceeds in the CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER'S or EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANT'S account would instead be valued as of the actual settlement date.
Finally, day traders that use CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR and that purchase
global securities from DTC participants for delivery to CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS or
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS should note that these trades would automatically fail on
the sale side unless affirmative action is taken. At least three techniques
should be readily available to eliminate this potential problem:
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o borrowing through CLEARSTREAM or EUROCLEAR for one day (until the
purchase side of the day trade is reflected in their CLEARSTREAM or
EUROCLEAR accounts) in accordance with the clearing system's customary
procedures,
o borrowing the global securities in the U.S. from a DTC participant no
later than one day prior to settlement, which would give the global
securities sufficient time to be reflected in their CLEARSTREAM or
EUROCLEAR account in order to settle the sale side of the trade or
o staggering the value dates for the buy and sell sides of the trade so
that the value date for the purchase from the DTC participant is at least
one day prior to the value date for the sale to the CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMER
or EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT.
THE DEPOSITORIES--DTC. DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized
under the laws of the State of New York, a member of the Federal Reserve System,
a "clearing corporation" within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial
Code, and a "clearing agency" registered under the provisions of Section 17A of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. DTC was created to hold
securities for its participants and facilitate the clearance and settlement of
securities transactions between participants through electronic book-entries,
thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates. Participants
include securities brokers and dealers (who may include any of the underwriters
of securities of issued by a trust), banks, trust companies and clearing
corporations and may include certain other organizations. Indirect access to the
DTC system also is available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust
companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a
participant, either directly or indirectly. The rules applicable to DTC and its
DTC participants are on file with the SEC.
--CLEARSTREAM. CLEARSTREAM is incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg.
CLEARSTREAM holds securities for CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS and facilitates the
clearance and settlement of securities transactions between CLEARSTREAM
CUSTOMERS through electronic book entry changes in accounts of CLEARSTREAM
CUSTOMERS, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates.
Transactions may be settled through CLEARSTREAM in any of 36 currencies,
including U.S. dollars. Clearstream provides to its customers, among other
things, services for safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of
internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing.
CLEARSTREAM also deals with domestic securities markets in over 30 countries
through established depository and custodial relationships. As a professional
depository, CLEARSTREAM is subject to regulation and supervision by the
Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier. CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS are
worldwide financial institutions including underwriters, securities brokers and
dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other
organizations and may include the underwriters of the securities issued by a
trust. CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS in the U.S. are limited to securities brokers and
dealers and banks. Currently, CLEARSTREAM has approximately 2,000 customers
located in over 80 counties, including all major European countries, Canada and
the United States. Indirect access to CLEARSTREAM is also available to other
institutions that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with an
account holder of CLEARSTREAM.
CLEARSTREAM has established an electronic bridge with Euroclear Bank
S.A./N.V. as the operator of the EUROCLEAR system in Brussels to facilitate
settlement of trades between CLEARSTREAM and EUROCLEAR.
--EUROCLEAR. The EUROCLEAR system was created in 1968 to hold securities of
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS and to clear and settle transactions between EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANTS through simultaneous electronic book-entry delivery against
payment, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates and
any risk from lack of simultaneous transfers of securities and cash.
Transactions may now be settled in any of 34 currencies, including U.S. dollars.
The EUROCLEAR system includes various other services, including securities
lending and borrowing and interfaces with domestic markets in several countries
generally similar to the arrangements for cross-market transfers with DTC
described above. The EUROCLEAR system is operated by EUROCLEAR Bank S.A./N.V.
All operations are conducted by the EUROCLEAR operator, and all EUROCLEAR
securities clearance accounts and Euroclear cash accounts are accounts with the
EUROCLEAR operator, not the EUROCLEAR clearance system. EUROCLEAR clearance
system establishes policy for the EUROCLEAR system on behalf of EUROCLEAR
PARTICIPANTS. EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS include banks (including central banks),
securities brokers and dealers and other professional financial intermediaries
and may include the underwriters of the securities issued by a trust. Indirect
access to the EUROCLEAR system is also available to other firms that clear
through or maintain a custodial relationship with a EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANT,
either directly or indirectly.
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Securities clearance accounts and cash accounts with the EUROCLEAR operator
are governed by the terms and conditions governing use of EUROCLEAR and the
related operating procedures of the EUROCLEAR system and applicable Belgian law.
These terms and conditions govern transfers of securities and cash within the
EUROCLEAR system, withdrawal of securities and cash from the EUROCLEAR system,
and receipts of payments with respect to securities in the EUROCLEAR system. All
securities in the EUROCLEAR system are held on a fungible basis without
attribution of specific certificates to specific securities clearance accounts.
The EUROCLEAR operator acts under these terms and conditions only on behalf of
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS and has no record of or relationship with persons holding
through EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS.
DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities depository for the
securities issued by a trust at any time by giving reasonable notice to Chase
USA, as servicer, the trustee and, if applicable, the indenture trustee. If this
occurs and a successor securities depository is not obtained, DEFINITIVE
SECURITIES will be printed and delivered. The servicer may decide to discontinue
use of the system of book-entry transfers through DTC or a successor securities
depository. In that event, DEFINITIVE SECURITIES will be delivered to each
securityholder.
Although DTC, CLEARSTREAM and EUROCLEAR have agreed to the foregoing
procedures in order to facilitate transfers of securities among their
participants, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform
these procedures and these procedures may be discontinued at any time.
DEFINITIVE SECURITIES
Any notes or certificates initially issued by a trust in book-entry form
will be issued in fully registered, certificated form to the holders of the
notes or the certificates or their respective nominees rather than to DTC or its
nominee, only if:
o Chase USA, as servicer, advises the trustee or indenture trustee, as
applicable, in writing that DTC is no longer willing or able to properly
discharge its responsibilities as depository with respect to the
securities and the servicer is unable to locate a qualified successor
depository,
o Chase USA, as servicer, elects to terminate the book-entry system through
DTC or
o after the occurrence of an EVENT OF DEFAULT or an EVENT OF SERVICING
TERMINATION with respect to the securities issued by a trust, holders
representing at least a majority of the outstanding principal amount of
the notes or certificates issued by that trust advise the indenture
trustee or the trustee, as applicable, through DTC in writing that the
continuation of a book-entry system through DTC with respect to the notes
or certificates, as the case may be, is no longer in the best interest of
the holders of those securities.
Upon the occurrence of any event described in the immediately preceding
paragraph, the indenture trustee or the trustee through DTC and its participants
will be required to notify all applicable holders of the securities of the
availability of DEFINITIVE SECURITIES. Upon surrender by DTC of the definitive
certificates representing the securities and receipt of instructions for
re-registration, the trustee or indenture trustee, as applicable, will re-issue
the securities as DEFINITIVE SECURITIES to their holders.
Distributions of principal of, and interest on, DEFINITIVE SECURITIES will
be made by the related trustee or indenture trustee in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the related indenture or trust agreement, as applicable,
directly to the holders in whose names those DEFINITIVE SECURITIES were
registered at the close of business on the applicable record date specified in
the related prospectus supplement. These distributions will be made by check
mailed to the address of the securityholder as it appears on the register
maintained by the trustee or indenture trustee, as applicable. However, the
final payment on any DEFINITIVE SECURITY will be made only upon presentation and
surrender of the DEFINITIVE SECURITY at the office or agency specified in the
notice of final distribution to the applicable securityholders.
DEFINITIVE SECURITIES will be transferable and exchangeable at the offices
of the related transfer agent and registrar for the securities. No service
charge will be imposed for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the
trustee or indenture trustee, as applicable, may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed on the transfer
or exchange.
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LIST OF SECURITYHOLDERS
Three or more holders of the notes of any series, each of whom has owned a
note for at least six months, may, by written request to the related indenture
trustee, obtain access to the list of all holders of the notes of that series
maintained by the indenture trustee for the purpose of communicating with them
with respect to their rights under the indenture or the notes. The indenture
trustee may elect not to grant the requesting noteholders access to the list of
all noteholders if it agrees to mail the desired communication or proxy, on
behalf and at the expense of the requesting noteholders, to all noteholders of
record. Unless DEFINITIVE SECURITIES have been issued in exchange for the notes,
the only noteholder appearing on the list maintained by the related indenture
trustee will be Cede, as nominee for DTC. Under these circumstances, any
beneficial owner of a note who wishes to communicate with other beneficial
owners of the notes will not be able to identify those beneficial owners through
the indenture trustee and instead will have to attempt to identify them through
DTC and its participants or by such other means as the beneficial owner may find
available.
Three or more holders of certificates of any series or one or more holders
of certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the initial stated certificate
balance of the series may, by written request to the related trustee, obtain
access to the list of all holders of the certificates of the series for the
purpose of communicating with them with respect to their rights under the
related trust agreement or under the certificates. Unless DEFINITIVE SECURITIES
have been issued in exchange for the certificates, the only certificateholder
appearing on the list maintained by the related trustee will be Cede, as nominee
for DTC. Under these circumstances, any beneficial owner of a certificate who
wishes to communicate with other beneficial owners of the certificates will not
be able to identify those beneficial owners through the related trustee and
instead will have to attempt to identify them through DTC and its participants
or by such other means as the beneficial owner may find available.
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REPORTS TO SECURITYHOLDERS
On each payment date, the paying agent, will include with each payment or
distribution to securityholders a statement prepared by Chase USA, as servicer.
Each statement will include, to the extent applicable, the following
information, and any other information specified in the related prospectus
supplement, with respect to the payment date or the period since the previous
payment date, as applicable:
o the amount of the distribution allocable to principal of each class of
securities and the derivation of the amounts,
o the amount of the distribution allocable to interest on or with respect
to each class of securities,
o the amount of the servicing fee paid to Chase USA, as servicer, and the
amount of any unpaid servicing fee in respect of the related COLLECTION
PERIOD or COLLECTION PERIODS, as the case may be,
o the amount of the administration fee paid to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
administrator, and the amount of any unpaid administration fees in
respect of the related COLLECTION PERIOD, or COLLECTION PERIODS, as the
case may be,
o the aggregate unreimbursed amount of ADVANCES as of the last day of the
preceding COLLECTION PERIOD and the change in that amount from the
previous COLLECTION PERIOD,
o the aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans as of the
close of business on the last day of the preceding COLLECTION PERIOD,
o the aggregate outstanding principal balance of each class of securities,
in each case after giving effect to all payments reported under the first
bullet above on the payment date,
o the interest rate for the next interest accrual period with respect to
any class of securities with a variable rate,
o the amount of the aggregate losses realized on the motor vehicle loans
for the preceding COLLECTION PERIOD,
o the amount of any shortfalls in payment of principal of or interest on
any class of the securities and the change in those amounts from the
preceding statement,
o the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of motor vehicle loans, if
any, purchased by the servicer or repurchased by the seller in the
preceding COLLECTION PERIOD,
o the balance of the reserve account, if any, or any other enhancement
account, as of the payment date, after giving effect to changes to that
account on that date, the amount required to be on deposit in that
account on that payment date and the components of calculating that
required amount,
o for each payment date during the funding period, if any specified in the
prospectus supplement, the remaining amount on deposit in the pre-funding
account and available to be used to purchase additional motor vehicle
loans,
o for the first payment date that is on or immediately following the end of
the funding period specified in the prospectus supplement, the amount
remaining on deposit in the pre-funding account that has not been used
and is being passed through as payments of principal on the securities
and
o the balance in any account in which prepayments of scheduled payments by
or on behalf of the obligors on ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES are deposited.
Each amount set forth in the first four bullets with respect to the
securities of any series will be expressed as a dollar amount per $1,000 of the
initial principal balance of the notes or the initial stated certificate balance
of the certificates, as applicable. The paying agent will deliver these
statements to DTC for further distribution to the securityholders in accordance
with DTC's procedures.
Chase USA, as servicer, will file on behalf of each trust such periodic
reports with respect to each trust with the SEC as is required under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Within the prescribed period of time for tax reporting purposes after the
end of each calendar year during the term of each trust, the applicable
indenture trustee, trustee or paying agent, will furnish to each person who at
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any time during the calendar year has been a securityholder of that trust and
received any payment on those securities, a statement containing information for
the purposes of that securityholder's preparation of federal income tax returns.
THE INDENTURE
Each trust will issue one or more classes of notes. The notes will be
issued under the terms of an indenture between the trust and the indenture
trustee specified in the prospectus supplement, a form of which has been filed
as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a
part. This summary describes the material provisions of the indenture common to
the notes of each trust. The attached prospectus supplement will give you
additional information specific to the notes which you are purchasing. This
summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in
its entirety by reference to, all the provisions of the notes and the indenture.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
The EVENTS OF DEFAULT under each indenture will consist of:
o a default for five days, or such longer period as is specified in the
related prospectus supplement, or more in the payment of any interest on
any of the notes issued pursuant to the indenture,
o a default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the
principal of any note issued pursuant to the indenture when it becomes
due and payable,
o a default in the observance or performance of any other covenant or
agreement of the trust made in the indenture which default materially and
adversely affects the rights of the holders of the notes issued pursuant
to the indenture and which default continues for a period of 30 days
after written notice of the default is given to the trust by the related
indenture trustee or to the trust and the indenture trustee by the
holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of
notes, or for such longer period, not to exceed 90 days, as may be
reasonably necessary to remedy the default, provided that the default is
capable of being remedied within 90 days or less, or
o certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or liquidation of
the trust.
The amount of principal due and payable to the holders of a class of notes
under the indenture until the final scheduled payment date for that class of
notes will generally be limited to amounts available to pay the principal of the
notes. Therefore the failure to pay principal on a class of notes on any payment
date generally will not result in the occurrence of an EVENT OF DEFAULT until
the final scheduled payment date for that class of notes.
NOTEHOLDER RIGHTS UPON EVENT OF DEFAULT. If an EVENT OF DEFAULT should
occur and be continuing with respect to the notes issued by any trust, the
related indenture trustee or the holders of a majority of the principal amount
of the CONTROLLING CLASS of the notes may declare the principal of the notes to
be immediately due and payable. The holders of a majority of the principal
amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of the notes may rescind that declaration at any
time before the indenture trustee obtains a judgment or decree for the payment
of money by the trust.
If the notes issued by any trust are declared to be due and payable
following an EVENT OF DEFAULT, the related indenture trustee may:
o institute proceedings to collect amounts due on the notes,
o foreclose on the trust property or
o exercise other remedies as a secured party.
In addition, the indenture trustee may sell the motor vehicle loans held by the
trust if
o the holders of all the outstanding notes issued by the trust consent to
the sale,
o the proceeds of the sale are sufficient to pay in full the principal and
the accrued interest on all outstanding notes and certificates issued by
the trust at the date of the sale or
o there has been an EVENT OF DEFAULT arising from a failure to pay
principal or interest on any notes and the indenture trustee determines
that the proceeds of the motor vehicle loans would not be sufficient on
an ongoing basis to make all payments on the notes as those payments
would have become due if the
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obligations had not been declared due and payable, and the indenture
trustee obtains the consent of the holders of 66% of the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of notes.
The indenture trustee may elect to have the trust maintain possession of the
motor vehicle loans and continue to apply collections on those motor vehicle
loans as if the notes had not been declared to be due and payable.
If an EVENT OF DEFAULT occurs and is continuing under an indenture, the
related indenture trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers under the indenture at the request or direction of any of the
holders of the notes issued under the indenture if the indenture trustee
reasonably believes it will not be adequately indemnified against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in complying with that
request.
The holders of a majority of the principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS
of the notes issued under the indenture will have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding or any remedy available to the
related indenture trustee.
Prior to the declaration that a series of notes are due and payable
following the occurrence of an EVENT OF DEFAULT, the holders of a majority of
the principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of those notes may waive the EVENT
OF DEFAULT unless the EVENT OF DEFAULT was caused by a default in the payment of
principal or interest or a default in respect of a covenant or provision of the
indenture that cannot be modified without the waiver or consent of all the
holders of the outstanding notes.
No holder of a note will have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the related indenture unless:
o the holder has previously given written notice to the related indenture
trustee of a continuing EVENT OF DEFAULT,
o the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the CONTROLLING
CLASS of notes have made a written request to the indenture trustee to
institute a proceeding in its own name as indenture trustee,
o such holder or holders have offered the indenture trustee indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities
to be incurred in complying with their request,
o the indenture trustee has, for 60 days after receipt of the notice,
request and offer of indemnity, failed to institute a proceeding and
o no direction inconsistent with the written request has been given to the
indenture trustee during the 60-day period by the holders of a majority
of the principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of notes.
Nonetheless the holder of each note issued by a trust will have the
absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of principal of and interest
on that note and to institute suit for the enforcement of that payment, which
right may not be impaired without the individual holder's consent.
Each indenture trustee and the related noteholders, by accepting notes,
will covenant that they will not, at any time, institute against the trust
issuing the notes any bankruptcy, reorganization or other proceeding under any
federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.
Neither the indenture trustee nor the trustee in its individual capacity,
nor any holder of a certificate representing an ownership interest in a trust
nor any of their respective owners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees, affiliates, successors or assigns will be personally liable for the
payment of the principal of or interest on the notes issued by the trust or for
the agreements of the trust contained in the applicable indenture.
CERTAIN COVENANTS
RESTRICTIONS ON MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION. Each indenture will provide that
the related trust may not consolidate with or merge into any other entity,
unless
o the entity formed by or surviving the consolidation or merger is
organized under the laws of the United States, any state or the District
of Columbia,
o the entity expressly assumes the trust's obligation to make due and
punctual payments of principal and interest on the notes issued by the
trust and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant
of the trust under the indenture,
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o no EVENT OF DEFAULT under the indenture has occurred and is continuing
immediately after the merger or consolidation,
o the trust has been advised that the rating of the notes and the
certificates if any issued by the trust then in effect would not be
downgraded or withdrawn by the rating agencies as a result of the merger
or consolidation,
o all action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest
created by the indenture has been taken and
o the trust has received an opinion of counsel to the effect that the
consolidation or merger would have no material adverse tax consequence to
the trust or to any holder of a security issued by the trust.
OTHER COVENANTS. Each trust will agree, among other things, not to:
o except as expressly permitted by the applicable RELATED DOCUMENTS, sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the assets of the
trust,
o claim any credit on or make any deduction from the principal or interest
payable in respect of the notes issued by the trust, other than amounts
withheld under the tax code or applicable state law,
o assert any claim against any present or former noteholders because of the
payment of taxes levied or assessed upon the trust,
o permit the validity or effectiveness of the related indenture to be
impaired or permit any person to be released from any covenants or
obligations with respect to the notes under the indenture except as may
be expressly permitted under the indenture,
o permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or
other encumbrance to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon
or burden the assets of the trust or any part of those assets, or any
interest in those assets or the proceeds of those assets or
o permit any lien of the indenture not to constitute a valid first priority
security interest in the trust, except as a result of any tax, mechanics'
or other like liens.
No trust will be permitted to engage in any activity other than as
described in the section of the related prospectus supplement entitled "The
Trust." No trust will be permitted to incur, assume or guarantee any
indebtedness other than the indebtedness incurred under the notes issued by the
trust and the indenture, the certificates issued by the trust and as a result of
any ADVANCES made to it by the servicer in accordance with the related sale and
servicing agreement.
ANNUAL COMPLIANCE STATEMENT. Each trust will be required to file annually
with the related indenture trustee a written statement as to the fulfillment of
its obligations under the indenture.
INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S ANNUAL REPORT. The indenture trustee for each trust
will be required to mail each year to all related noteholders a brief report
relating to
o its eligibility and qualification to continue as indenture trustee under
the related indenture,
o any amounts advanced by it under the related indenture,
o the amount, interest rate and maturity date of certain indebtedness owed
by the trust to the related indenture trustee in its individual capacity,
o the property and funds physically held by the indenture trustee in his
capacity as indenture trustee and
o any action taken by it that materially affects the related notes and that
has not been previously reported.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. An indenture will be discharged
upon the delivery to the related indenture trustee for cancellation of all notes
issued under that indenture, or with certain limitations, upon deposit with the
indenture trustee of funds sufficient for, the payment in full of all those
notes.
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MODIFICATIONS OF THE INDENTURE
MODIFICATIONS OF THE INDENTURE WITH NOTEHOLDER CONSENT. Any trust and the
related indenture trustee may, with the consent of the holders of a majority of
the principal amount of the notes of the CONTROLLING CLASS, execute a
supplemental indenture to add provisions to, change in any manner or eliminate
any provisions of, the related indenture, or modify in any manner the rights of
the related holders of the notes. However, no supplemental indenture may effect
any of the following changes without the consent of the holder of each note
affected by that change:
o change the due date of payment of any installment of principal of or
interest on any note,
o reduce the principal amount, the specified interest rate or the
redemption price of any note,
o change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any
note or any interest on the note is payable,
o impair the right to sue for the enforcement of provisions of the related
indenture regarding payment,
o reduce the percentage of the aggregate amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of
notes, the consent of the holders of which is required to waive
compliance with certain provisions of the related indenture or of certain
defaults under the indenture and their consequences as provided for in
the indenture,
o modify or alter the provisions of the related indenture regarding the
voting of notes held by Chase USA, the related trust, any other obligor
on the notes or any affiliate of any of Chase USA, the related trust or
such other obligor on the notes,
o reduce the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the
CONTROLLING CLASS of the notes, the consent of which is required to
direct the related indenture trustee to sell or liquidate the motor
vehicle loans held by the trust after an EVENT OF DEFAULT if the proceeds
of the sale would be insufficient to pay the principal amount and accrued
but unpaid interest on all of the outstanding notes issued by the trust,
o reduce the percentage of the aggregate amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of
the notes, the consent of which is required to amend the sections of the
related indenture that specify the applicable percentage of aggregate
principal amount of the notes necessary to amend the indenture or the
RELATED DOCUMENTS,
o modify any provisions of the indenture in a manner that affects the
calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on
any note on any payment date, including the calculation of any of the
individual components of the calculation,
o permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the
lien of the related indenture with respect to any of the collateral for
the notes or
o except as otherwise permitted or contemplated in the indenture, terminate
the lien of the indenture on any collateral for the notes or deprive the
holder of any note of the security afforded by the lien of the indenture.
MODIFICATIONS OF THE INDENTURE WITHOUT NOTEHOLDER CONSENT. Any trust and
the related indenture trustee may enter into supplemental indentures, without
obtaining the consent of the holders of the notes issued by that trust, for the
purpose of, among other things, adding any provisions to or changing in any
manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the related indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the notes so long as such
action does not materially and adversely affect the interest of any noteholder.
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
The indenture trustee for the notes issued by each trust will be specified
in the related prospectus supplement. The indenture trustee for any series may
resign at any time, in which event JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrator of the
trust, will be obligated to appoint a successor indenture trustee. The
administrator of the trust may also remove any indenture trustee if the
indenture trustee ceases to be eligible to continue as indenture trustee under
the related indenture or if the indenture trustee becomes insolvent. In those
circumstances, the administrator of the trust will be obligated to appoint a
successor indenture trustee for the related series of notes.
If a trust issues a class of notes that is subordinated to one or more
other classes of notes and an EVENT OF DEFAULT occurs under the related
indenture, the indenture trustee may be deemed to have a conflict of interest
under
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the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and may be required to resign as
trustee for one or more of those classes of notes. In that case, the indenture
will provide for a successor trustee to be appointed for one or more of those
classes of notes and may provide for rights of senior holders of the notes to
consent to or direct actions by the related indenture trustee that are different
from those of subordinated holders of the notes. Any resignation or removal of
the indenture trustee and appointment of a successor indenture trustee will not
become effective until acceptance of the appointment by a successor indenture
trustee.
TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS
The following summary describes certain terms of the sale and servicing
agreement pursuant to which Chase USA, as seller, will transfer a pool of motor
vehicle loans to a trust and Chase USA, as servicer, will service the motor
vehicle loans on behalf of the trust. This section also describes certain
provisions of the trust agreement and the administration agreement. Forms of
those documents have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of
which this prospectus forms a part. This summary describes the material
provisions common to the securities of each trust. The attached prospectus
supplement will give you additional information specific to the securities which
you are purchasing. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject
to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, all the provisions of those
documents.
SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF INITIAL MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS. When a trust issues
securities, Chase USA, as seller, will, in exchange for those securities, sell
and assign to the trust under a sale and servicing agreement, without recourse,
its interest in a pool of motor vehicle loans, including its security interests
in the related financed vehicles. Each motor vehicle loan will be identified in
a schedule to the related sale and servicing agreement. Chase USA will then sell
the securities offered by this prospectus and the related prospectus supplement
as set forth in the prospectus supplement.
SALE AND ASSIGNMENT OF ADDITIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS. The prospectus
supplement for the trust will specify whether, and the terms, conditions and
manner under which, Chase USA will sell and assign additional motor vehicle
loans to the trust from time to time during a funding period.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA. Each sale and servicing agreement, will set forth the
criteria that must be satisfied by each motor vehicle loan as of the applicable
cutoff date to be included in the trust. These criteria will include, the
following:
o each motor vehicle loan
o in the case of a motor vehicle loan originated with the involvement of
a dealer acting under a dealer agreement with Chase USA, has been
originated in the form of a credit sales transaction by a dealer or a
purchase money loan or other note through a dealer located in one of
the states of the United States, including the District of Columbia,
for the retail financing of a motor vehicle or
o in the case of a motor vehicle loan originated by Chase USA or another
originating bank without the involvement of a dealer acting under a
dealer agreement with Chase USA, has been originated by Chase USA or
another originating bank in the United States in the form of a secured
loan for the retail financing of a motor vehicle or
o in the case of a motor vehicle loan originated by another originator
and acquired by Chase USA, has been originated in the form of a credit
sales transaction by an automobile dealer or such originator, or a
purchase money loan or other note by such originator in the United
States for the retail financing of a motor vehicle, and
o in each case, has been fully and properly executed by the related
parties,
o in the case of a motor vehicle loan in the form of a retail installment
sales contract originated with the involvement of a dealer acting under
a dealer agreement with Chase USA, if Chase USA purchased the retail
installment sales contract from the dealer, the retail installment
sales contract has been validly assigned by that dealer to Chase USA in
accordance with its terms,
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o in the case of a motor vehicle loan originated by a originating bank
other than Chase USA, has been purchased from that originating bank and
validly assigned by that originating bank to Chase USA,
o in the case of a motor vehicle loan or purchase money loan originated
by another originator and acquired by Chase USA, has been purchased by
Chase USA and validly assigned by such originator to Chase USA,
o contains customary and enforceable provisions so that the rights and
remedies of the holder thereof will be adequate for realization against
the collateral or the benefits of the security,
o other than a FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLE or a DEFERRED PAYMENT RECEIVABLE,
provides for fully amortizing level scheduled monthly payments, provided
that the last payment may be different from the level scheduled payment,
and for accrual of interest according to the simple interest or actuarial
method,
o each motor vehicle loan and each sale of the related financed vehicle
complied at the time it was originated or made, and complied on and after
the applicable cutoff date in all material respects with applicable
federal, state, and local laws, and related regulations, including usury
laws, and any consumer credit, equal opportunity and disclosure laws
applicable to the motor vehicle loan and the sale,
o each motor vehicle loan constitutes the legal, valid and binding payment
obligation in writing of the obligor, enforceable by the holder thereof
in all material respects in accordance with its terms, subject, as to
enforcement, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
liquidation and other similar laws and equitable principles relating to
or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights,
o subject to the limited exceptions specified in the sale and servicing
agreement, immediately prior to its sale and assignment to the trust,
each motor vehicle loan was secured by a validly perfected first priority
security interest in the related financed vehicle in favor of the
originator thereof, which security interest is assignable and has been
assigned to the related trust;
o as of the applicable cutoff date, Chase USA had no knowledge of any facts
which would give rise to any right, assertion or threat of rescission,
setoff, counterclaim or defense with respect to the motor vehicle loan,
o as of the applicable cutoff date, Chase USA had no knowledge of any liens
or claims that have been filed, including liens for work, labor,
materials or unpaid taxes relating to a financed vehicle, that would be
liens prior to, or equal or coordinate with, the lien granted by the
motor vehicle loan,
o except for payment defaults continuing for less than 30 days as of the
applicable cutoff date, Chase USA had no knowledge that a default,
breach, violation or event permitting acceleration under the terms of the
motor vehicle loans exists; Chase USA had no knowledge that a continuing
condition that with notice or lapse of time would constitute a default,
breach, violation or event permitting acceleration under the terms of the
motor vehicle loan exists and Chase USA has not waived any of the above,
o each motor vehicle loan requires that the related obligor obtain
comprehensive, liability, theft and physical damage insurance covering
the related financed vehicle and
o each motor vehicle loan satisfies the other criteria described in this
prospectus in the section entitled "The Motor Vehicle Loans" and the
criteria for the selection of the motor vehicle loans to be included in
the trust described in the related prospectus supplement.
REPURCHASE OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS. As of the last day of the second or, at
the option of the seller, the first COLLECTION PERIOD following the discovery by
or notice to Chase USA, as seller, that a motor vehicle loan did not meet the
criteria described above and that failure materially and adversely affects the
interests of the related trust in the motor vehicle loan, the seller, unless the
failure has been cured, will repurchase the motor vehicle loan from the trust.
The repurchase price will be the REPURCHASE AMOUNT, which is the unpaid
principal balance of that motor vehicle loan plus accrued interest thereon at
the contract rate through the last day of the month of the repurchase. The
seller's repurchase obligation will constitute the sole remedy available to the
securityholders of the related trust for any such uncured breach.
CUSTODY OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS. The indenture trustee pursuant to the sale
and servicing agreement will appoint Chase USA, as servicer, as the initial
custodian of the motor vehicle loans transferred to the trust in order to assure
uniform quality in servicing the motor vehicle loans and to reduce
administrative costs. The servicer will not
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stamp or otherwise mark the motor vehicle loans to reflect the transfer of the
motor vehicle loans to the trust. The servicer will not segregate the motor
vehicle loans transferred to the trust from the other motor vehicle loans that
the servicer owns or services. The servicer will not notify the obligors under
the motor vehicle loans of the transfer of those loans to the trust. However,
UCC financing statements reflecting the sale and assignment of the motor vehicle
loans by the seller to the trust will be filed, and the servicer's accounting
records and computer systems will be marked to reflect the sale and assignment.
Because those motor vehicle loans will remain in the servicer's possession and
will not be stamped or otherwise marked to reflect the assignment to the trust
if a subsequent purchaser were to obtain physical possession of those motor
vehicle loans without knowledge of the assignment, the trust's interest in the
motor vehicle loans could be defeated.
TRUST ACCOUNTS
Each trust will establish and maintain one or more collection accounts in
the name of the indenture trustee on behalf of the related securityholders. The
servicer will deposit all collections on the motor vehicle loans into the
collection account. The servicer may establish and maintain a distribution
account in the name of the indenture trustee on behalf of the noteholders into
which amounts released from the collection account and any other accounts of the
trust for payment to the noteholders will be deposited and from which
distributions of interest and/or principal to the noteholders will be made. The
trustee may establish and maintain one or more certificate distribution accounts
in the name of the trustee on behalf of the certificateholders into which
amounts released from the collection account and any other accounts of the trust
for distribution to the certificateholders will be deposited and from which all
distributions to the certificateholders will be made.
Chase USA, as servicer, may establish and maintain for the trust an
additional account, in the name of the related indenture trustee into which, to
the extent required by the related sale and servicing agreement, the servicer
will deposit prepayments of scheduled payments by or on behalf of obligors on
ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES. These prepayments do not constitute scheduled payments,
full prepayments, or certain partial prepayments. These prepayments will be held
in this paid-ahead account until the prepaid amounts fall due. Until the
servicer transfers these prepayments from this paid-ahead account to the
collection account, they will not be included in collections and will not be
available for distribution to the securityholders. So long as Chase USA is the
servicer for the trust, no EVENT OF SERVICING TERMINATION exists and each other
condition to holding these prepayments as may be required by the related sale
and servicing agreement, is satisfied, the servicer may retain these prepayments
until the applicable payment date.
Any other accounts to be established with respect to the securities of a
trust, including any pre-funding account, yield supplement account or reserve
account, will be described in the related prospectus supplement.
All of the accounts described in this section are collectively referred to
in this prospectus as the "trust accounts".
Funds in the trust accounts will be invested as provided in the related
sale and servicing agreement in PERMITTED INVESTMENTS. PERMITTED INVESTMENTS
satisfy criteria established by the rating agencies rating the securities issued
by the trust and are generally limited to obligations or securities that mature
on or before the business day preceding the next payment date. However, to the
extent permitted by the rating agencies, funds in any reserve account or yield
supplement account may be invested in PERMITTED INVESTMENTS that will mature
later than the business day preceding the next payment date but not later than
90 days after the date of investment. PERMITTED INVESTMENTS will not be sold to
meet any shortfalls. Thus, the amount of cash available in any reserve account
or yield supplement account at any time may be less than the balance in that
account. If the amount required to be withdrawn from any reserve account or
yield supplement account to cover shortfalls in collections on the related motor
vehicle loans exceeds the amount of cash available in that account, a temporary
shortfall in the amounts distributed to the related noteholders or
certificateholders could result, which could, in turn, increase the average life
of the notes or the certificates of the trust. Net investment earnings on funds
deposited in the trust accounts will either remain on deposit in the applicable
trust account or be paid to the party identified in the related prospectus
supplement.
The trust accounts will be required to be maintained as ELIGIBLE DEPOSIT
ACCOUNTS, which are accounts at a depository institution satisfying certain
requirements of the rating agencies rating the securities issued by a trust.
Each trust account, other than a reserve account or yield supplement account,
will be established initially with the
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trust department of JPMorgan Chase Bank. Should JPMorgan Chase Bank or any
depositary of a trust account no longer satisfy the requirements of the rating
agencies, the trust account will be moved to a depositary meeting the rating
agencies' requirements, provided that the trust account may remain at the
depositary if the trustee or indenture trustee receives written confirmation
from each rating agency rating the securities issued by the related trust to the
effect that the ratings of those securities will not be adversely affected.
JPMorgan Chase Bank, in its capacity as the initial paying agent under each
indenture or trust agreement, as applicable, will have the revocable right to
withdraw funds from the trust accounts for the purpose of making distributions
to securityholders in the manner provided in the applicable agreement.
SERVICING
SERVICING PROCEDURES. Chase USA will service the motor vehicle loans
transferred to each trust and will be obligated to make reasonable efforts to
collect all payments due with respect to those motor vehicle loans in a manner
consistent with the related sale and servicing agreement and with the terms of
the motor vehicle loans. It will be obligated to follow the collection and
servicing procedures that it follows with respect to comparable new or used
motor vehicle loans that it services for itself and that are consistent with
prudent industry standards.
Consistent with its normal procedures, the servicer may, in its discretion,
arrange with the obligor on a motor vehicle loan to defer or modify the payment
schedule. Some of these arrangements may require the servicer to purchase the
receivable while others may result in the servicer's making ADVANCES with
respect to the motor vehicle loan. The sale and servicing agreement will set
forth the limitations on the servicer's ability to make these arrangements.
Those limitations will be described in the related prospectus supplement. The
servicer may be obligated to purchase a receivable for the REPURCHASE AMOUNT if,
among other things, it extends the date for final payment by the obligor of such
motor vehicle loan beyond the last day of the COLLECTION PERIOD during which the
latest maturing motor vehicle loan in the trust matures as set forth in the
related prospectus supplement, or changes the contract rate of interest or the
total amount or number of scheduled payments.
If the servicer determines that eventual payment in full of a motor vehicle
loan is unlikely, the servicer will use reasonable efforts, consistent with its
customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise take possession of the
financed vehicle during the calendar month in which more than 10% of any
scheduled payment becomes 90 days delinquent. The servicer may, however,
repossess or otherwise take possession of a financed vehicle prior to the 90 day
period if the servicer determines that eventual payment in full of the amount
financed is unlikely, the vehicle is in danger of being damaged, destroyed or
otherwise made unavailable for repossession or the obligor voluntarily
surrenders the financed vehicle. The servicer may also delay repossession of the
financed vehicle if it is unable to locate the vehicle, the obligor is the
subject of a bankruptcy proceeding or the servicer otherwise defers repossession
of the financed vehicle in accordance with its normal and customary servicing
practices and procedures. After repossession of a financed vehicle, the servicer
will, in accordance with its normal and customary servicing practices and
procedures, sell the vehicle in an auction or consign the vehicle to a dealer
for resale as soon as is practicable after repossession, subject to any
applicable laws. The servicer will be obligated to follow its customary and
usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in
determining when and if to exercise reasonable efforts to realize upon any
recourse to dealers. The servicer will deposit any proceeds from its realization
efforts into the collection account.
The servicer will be obligated to determine that eventual payment in full
of a delinquent motor vehicle loan is unlikely no later than the calendar month
in which more than 10% of a scheduled payment under the motor vehicle loan
becomes 240 days delinquent.
COLLECTIONS. Chase USA, as servicer, will be required to deposit all
payments on the motor vehicle loans held by each trust and all proceeds of those
motor vehicle loans collected during each COLLECTION PERIOD into the collection
account on or before the business day preceding the following payment date so
long as Chase USA or JPMorgan Chase Bank is the servicer and each other
condition to making deposits less frequently than daily is satisfied as may be
confirmed by the rating agencies rating the securities issued by the trust as
set forth in the related prospectus supplement. If those conditions are not met,
the servicer will be required to deposit those amounts into the collection
account on a daily basis within forty-eight hours of receipt. In addition, the
servicer or the seller, as the case may be, will remit the aggregate REPURCHASE
AMOUNTS of any motor vehicle loans to be purchased from the trust to the
collection account on or prior to the business day preceding the applicable
payment date. Pending
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deposit into the collection account, the servicer may invest collections at its
own risk and for its own benefit. Those funds will not be segregated from the
servicer's own funds. If the servicer were unable to remit those funds, you
might incur a loss. The servicer may, to the extent described in the related
prospectus supplement and in order to satisfy the rating agency requirements for
monthly deposit of collections described above, obtain letters of credit or
other security for the benefit of the related trust to secure timely remittances
of collections on the related motor vehicle loans.
SERVICING COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES. The servicer will be entitled to
receive a servicing fee for each COLLECTION PERIOD payable on the following
payment date in an amount equal to the sum of:
o the product of one-twelfth of the percentage per annum set forth in the
related prospectus supplement and the aggregate principal balance of the
motor vehicle loans as of the close of business on the last day of the
preceding COLLECTION PERIOD and
o all late charges, credit-related extension fees, non-credit related
extension fees or other administrative fees or similar charges allowed by
applicable law with respect to the motor vehicle loans collected during
that COLLECTION PERIOD.
If specified in the related prospectus supplement, the servicer's compensation
may also include net investment earnings on funds deposited in one or more of
the trust accounts.
The servicing fee is intended to compensate the servicer for
o performing the functions of a third-party servicer of motor vehicle loans
as an agent for the trust, including collecting and posting all payments
and responding to inquiries of the obligors under the motor vehicle
loans, investigating delinquencies, reporting tax information to the
obligors and advancing costs of disposition and repossession of the
financed vehicles,
o administering the pool of motor vehicle loans, accounting for collections
and furnishing monthly and annual statements to the related trustee or
indenture trustee, as applicable and
o paying certain taxes, accounting fees, outside auditor fees, the fees of
JPMorgan Chase Bank as the paying agent and the transfer agent and
registrar for the trust, the related trustee and the indenture trustee
and its counsel, data processing costs and other costs incurred in
connection with administering the pool of motor vehicle loans.
ADVANCES. If specified in the related prospectus, the servicer may either
be obligated to make or have the discretion to make advances of delinquent
payments owing under the motor vehicle loans in the amounts and under the
circumstances described in the prospectus supplement. If the servicer makes
ADVANCES, it will be entitled to reimbursement for those ADVANCES in the manner
described in the related prospectus supplement. If the servicer makes ADVANCES,
it will deposit the ADVANCES made in respect of the delinquent payments for a
particular COLLECTION PERIOD on the business day preceding the following payment
date.
NET DEPOSITS. As an administrative convenience, so long as Chase USA is the
servicer and is permitted to make monthly deposits of collections on the motor
vehicle loans to the collection account, it will be permitted to deposit those
collections, aggregate ADVANCES and REPURCHASE AMOUNTS for each trust with
respect to a particular COLLECTION PERIOD net of distributions to be made to
Chase USA, as servicer, by the trust with respect to that COLLECTION PERIOD.
RESIGNATION OF THE SERVICER. Chase USA may not resign as the servicer of
the motor vehicle loans held by any trust under any sale and servicing
agreement, except:
o upon a determination that Chase USA's performance of its duties as
servicer is no longer permissible under applicable law or
o if a successor servicer is appointed, upon notification by each rating
agency then rating any of the securities issued by that trust that the
rating assigned to the securities will not be reduced or withdrawn.
Chase USA's resignation will not become effective until the related indenture
trustee or a successor servicer has assumed Chase USA's servicing
responsibilities and obligations under the sale and servicing agreement. The
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indenture trustee will not be obligated to act as the successor servicer unless
Chase USA resigns because the performance of its duties as servicer is no longer
permissible under applicable laws.
ASSIGNMENT BY THE SERVICER. Chase USA, as servicer, may not transfer or
assign all, or a portion of, its rights, obligations and duties under any sale
and servicing agreement, except in connection with a merger or consolidation of
Chase USA, unless:
o the transfer or assignment will not result in a reduction or withdrawal
by any rating agency then rating any of the securities issued by the
related trust of the rating then assigned to the securities and the
indenture trustee and the related trustee have consented to the transfer
or assignment or
o consent is obtained from the indenture trustee, the related trustee and
holders of securities evidencing not less than a majority of the voting
interests.
Chase USA cannot effect a transfer or assignment all of its rights, obligations
and duties as servicer under a sale and servicing agreement until a successor
servicer has assumed those rights, obligations and duties.
If Chase USA, its successor or assign or the indenture trustee is acting as
the servicer, it will be permitted to delegate any of its duties under the
related sale and servicing agreement to a third party, in the ordinary course of
its business. The servicer will be obligated to pay the compensation payable to
that third party from its own funds. None of the related trust, the related
trustee, the related indenture trustee (if not the servicer), or securityholders
will be liable for that third party's compensation. Any delegation of duties by
the servicer will not relieve the servicer of liability and responsibility for
the performance of those duties.
LIABILITIES OF THE SERVICER; INDEMNIFICATION OF THE SERVICER. Each sale and
servicing agreement will provide that neither Chase USA, as servicer, nor any of
its directors, officers, employees and agents will be under any liability to the
related trust, the related trustee, the related indenture trustee or any
securityholders for taking any action or for refraining from taking any action
as servicer pursuant to that sale and servicing agreement. However, neither
Chase USA nor any of those other persons will be protected against any liability
that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or
gross negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard
of obligations and duties under the sale and servicing agreement.
Chase USA, as servicer, and its directors, officers, employees and agents
will be entitled to indemnification by the related trust for, and will be held
harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with any
legal action relating to the performance of its servicing duties under the
related sale and servicing agreement that is not otherwise indemnified, other
than:
o any loss or liability otherwise reimbursable under the sale and servicing
agreement and
o any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith in performance of its duties or by reason of its
reckless disregard of obligations and duties under the sale and servicing
agreement.
The trust's obligation to indemnify the servicer will be limited to excess
amounts available on any payment date in the reserve account or other
enhancement account held by the trust or, if the trust has no enhancement
accounts, to amounts available after all payments or deposits required under the
related sale and servicing agreement for the benefit of the servicer or the
securityholders have been made.
In addition, each sale and servicing agreement will provide that Chase USA,
as servicer, is under no obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal
action that is not incidental to its servicing responsibilities under the sale
and servicing agreement and that, in its opinion, may cause it to incur any
expense or liability. The servicer may, however, undertake any reasonable action
that it deems necessary or desirable in respect of the sale and servicing
agreement and the rights and duties of the related parties and the interests of
the related securityholders under the sale and servicing agreement. In that
event, the related trust will be liable for the legal expenses and costs of the
action and the servicer will be entitled to be reimbursed for those expenses.
The trust's obligation to reimburse the servicer will be limited to excess
amounts available on any payment date in the reserve account or other
enhancement account held by the trust or, if the trust has no enhancement
accounts, to amounts available after all payments or deposits required under the
related sale and servicing agreement for the benefit of the servicer or the
securityholders have been made.
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EVENTS OF SERVICING TERMINATION. EVENTS OF SERVICING TERMINATION under each
sale and servicing agreement will consist of:
o the servicer's failure to deliver to the related trustee or indenture
trustee:
o the monthly report for any Collection Period or
o for deposit in the collection account or other trust account, any
amounts required to be deposited in those accounts under the terms of
the securities issued by the related trust or the related sale and
servicing agreement,
o which failure continues unremedied for five business days after the
servicer's discovery of that failure or the servicer's receipt of
written notice of that failure by the related trustee or indenture
trustee or to the related trustee or indenture trustee and the
servicer by holders of at least 25% of the principal amount of the
notes issued by the trust, or, if no notes are outstanding, by holders
of at least 25% of the certificate balance of the certificates issued
by the trust,
o the servicer's failure to duly observe or perform in any material
respect any other covenant or agreement in the related sale and
servicing agreement or indenture which failure materially and
adversely affects the rights of the related trust or the
securityholders, which determination will be made without regard to
whether funds are available to the securityholders pursuant to any
related enhancement, and continues unremedied for 60 days after the
date of the servicer's receipt of written notice of the failure by the
related trustee or indenture trustee or to the related trustee or
indenture trustee and the servicer by holders of at least 25% of the
principal amount of the notes issued by the trust or, if no notes are
outstanding, by holders of at least 25% of the certificate balance of
the certificates issued by the trust or
o the occurrence of certain insolvency events specified in the
applicable sale and servicing agreement in respect of the servicer.
RIGHTS UPON EVENT OF SERVICING TERMINATION. As long as an EVENT OF
SERVICING TERMINATION under a sale and servicing agreement remains unremedied,
the related indenture trustee or the holders of not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of the notes, and after the notes have
been paid in full, the trustee or the holders of not less than a majority of the
certificate balance of the certificates, may terminate all the rights and
obligations of the servicer under the sale and servicing agreement. If the
servicer is terminated, the indenture trustee or a successor servicer appointed
by the indenture trustee or trustee will succeed to all the responsibilities,
duties and liabilities of the servicer under the sale and servicing agreement
and will be entitled to similar compensation arrangements. In the event that the
indenture trustee is unwilling or unable to act as servicer, it may appoint, or
petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of, a successor
servicer. The compensation payable to a successor servicer may not exceed the
servicing fee paid to Chase USA, as servicer under the sale and servicing
agreement.
WAIVER OF PAST EVENTS OF SERVICING TERMINATION. The holders of not less
than a majority of the principal amount of the CONTROLLING CLASS of the notes,
and after the notes have been paid in full, the holders of not less than a
majority of the certificate balance of the certificates, may waive any EVENT OF
SERVICING TERMINATION and its consequences, except an EVENT OF SERVICING
TERMINATION consisting of a failure to make any required deposits to or payments
from any of the trust accounts in accordance with the applicable sale and
servicing agreement. In addition, the holders of not less than a majority of the
certificate balance of the certificates may waive a EVENT OF SERVICING
TERMINATION that does not adversely affect the related indenture trustee or
noteholders.
EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE. Each sale and servicing agreement will provide that
a firm of independent public accountants will annually furnish to the related
trustee and any indenture trustee a statement as to the servicer's compliance
during the preceding twelve months, or, if the first certification, from the
applicable closing date, with certain standards relating to the servicing of the
applicable motor vehicle loans, or as to the effectiveness of its processing and
reporting procedures and other matters.
Each sale and servicing agreement will also provide for delivery to the
firm of independent public accountants referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph, substantially simultaneously with the delivery of the accountants'
statement referred above, of a certificate signed by an officer of the servicer
stating that it has fulfilled its obligations in all material respects under the
sale and servicing agreement throughout the preceding twelve
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months, or, if the first certification, from the closing date, or, in the
alternative, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any obligation,
describing that default.
You may obtain copies of these statements and certifications by a request
in writing addressed to the servicer.
DISTRIBUTIONS
Beginning on the payment date specified in the related prospectus
supplement, distributions of principal and interest, or, where applicable, of
principal or interest only, on each class of securities issued by a trust will
be made by the applicable trustee, the indenture trustee or JPMorgan Chase Bank
as paying agent to the holders of the securities issued by that trust. The
timing, calculation, allocation, order, source, priorities of and requirements
for all payments to each class of securityholders will be set forth in the
related prospectus supplement.
If a trust issues both certificates and notes and the payment dates for
those certificates and notes do not coincide, all distributions, deposits or
other remittances made on one payment date will be treated as having been
distributed, deposited or remitted on the other payment date for the applicable
COLLECTION PERIOD for purposes of determining other amounts required to be
distributed, deposited or otherwise remitted on that second payment date.
CREDIT AND CASH FLOW ENHANCEMENT
The amounts and types of credit and cash flow enhancement arrangements, if
any, and the provider thereof, if applicable, with respect to each class of
securities issued by a trust will be set forth in the related prospectus
supplement. If and to the extent provided in the related prospectus supplement,
credit and cash flow enhancement may be in the form of
o subordination of one or more classes of securities,
o excess spread, i.e., interest earned on the motor vehicle loans in excess
of the sum of the amount of interest required to be paid on the
securities and the servicing fees and other expenses of the trust,
o one or more reserve accounts,
o a yield supplement agreement or other arrangement,
o a yield supplement account,
o over-collateralization,
o letters of credit,
o credit or liquidity facilities,
o surety bonds,
o guaranteed investment contracts,
o swaps, caps or other interest rate protection agreements,
o repurchase obligations,
o other agreements providing third party payments or other support,
o cash deposits in trust accounts or
o other arrangements.
If specified in the related prospectus supplement, credit or cash flow
enhancement for a class of securities issued by a trust may cover one or more
other classes of securities issued by the same trust, and credit or cash flow
enhancement for the securities issued by a trust may cover one or more other
classes of securities issued by another trust.
Credit and cash flow enhancement benefiting the securities issued by a
trust are intended to enhance the likelihood of receipt by the holders of those
securities of the full amount of principal and interest due on the securities
and to decrease the likelihood that those holders will experience losses. The
credit or cash flow enhancement for a class of securities may not provide
protection against all risks of loss and may not guarantee
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repayment of the entire principal amount of and interest on those securities. If
losses occur which exceed the amount covered by any credit enhancement or which
are not covered by any credit enhancement, securityholders will bear their
allocable share of deficiencies, as described in the related prospectus
supplement. In addition, if a form of credit enhancement covers more than one
series of securities, the holders of the securities of any series will be
subject to the risk that the credit enhancement will be exhausted by the claims
of holders of the securities of other series.
Chase USA, as seller, may replace or reduce the credit enhancement for any
class of securities issued by a trust with another form of credit enhancement
without the consent of the holders of that class of securities, provided the
rating agencies rating those securities confirm in writing that this
substitution or reduction will not result in the reduction, qualification or
withdrawal of the rating of that class of securities or any class of securities
issued by that trust.
STATEMENTS TO TRUSTEES AND TRUST
Prior to each payment date with respect to the securities issued by each
trust, Chase USA, as servicer, will provide to the related trustee and any
indenture trustee a statement setting forth substantially the same information
for that payment date and the related COLLECTION PERIOD as is required to be
provided in the periodic reports provided to the holders of those securities
described in the section of this prospectus entitled "Certain Information
Regarding the Securities--Reports to Securityholders."
AMENDMENTS OF TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS
WITHOUT SECURITYHOLDER CONSENT. The parties to the transfer and servicing
agreements may amend a transfer and servicing agreement without prior notice to
the related securityholders, but with the prior consent of the related trustee
or indenture trustee and prior notice to the rating agencies rating the
securities issued by the related trust, in order to:
o cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any of its provisions or the
provisions of the related securities, which may be inconsistent with any
other provision of the transfer and servicing agreement,
o evidence the succession of a successor servicer or seller pursuant to the
transfer and servicing agreement,
o add any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under the transfer and servicing agreement that are not inconsistent with
its provisions, provided that the amendment does not, on the basis of an
officer's certificate and/or opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to
the trustee and indenture trustee, materially and adversely affect the
interests of the trust or any securityholders or
o effect a transfer or assignment of the servicer's or the trust's rights,
obligations and duties under the transfer and servicing agreement.
WITH SECURITYHOLDER CONSENT. The parties to the transfer and servicing
agreements may amend a transfer and servicing agreement in order to add any
provisions to or change in any manner or eliminate any of the provisions of that
transfer and servicing agreement or to modify in any manner the rights of the
securityholders with the consent of the holders of a majority of the principal
amount of the notes and the holders of certificates evidencing at least a
majority of the certificate balance then outstanding. However, the parties may
not amend a transfer and servicing agreement without the consent of the holders
of all outstanding notes and certificates if the amendment:
o increases or reduces in any manner the amount of, or accelerates or
delays the timing of, collections of payments on the related motor
vehicle loans or distributions that are required to be made for the
benefit of the securityholders or
o reduces the percentage of the notes or certificates issued by a trust
that is required for consent to any such amendment.
CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE
The indenture trustee will agree in the indenture that, upon the payment in
full of all outstanding notes issued under that indenture and the satisfaction
and discharge of that indenture, it will continue to carry out its obligations
under the related sale and servicing agreement as agent for the trustee of the
trust for the benefit of the certificateholders of the trust.
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TERMINATION
The obligations of the servicer, the seller, the trustee and any indenture
trustee pursuant to the transfer and servicing agreements with respect to each
trust will terminate upon the earlier of:
o the payment date next succeeding the month that is six months after the
maturity or other liquidation of the last motor vehicle loan held by the trust
and the disposition of any amounts received upon liquidation of any property
remaining in the trust and
o the payment to the holders of the securities issued by the trust of all
amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the transfer and servicing
agreements.
In order to avoid excessive administrative expense, the servicer may be
permitted to purchase from the trust all the remaining motor vehicle loans as of
the end of any COLLECTION PERIOD if the outstanding aggregate principal balance
of the motor vehicle loans held by the trust at that time is equal to or less
than the percentage specified in the prospectus supplement of the initial
aggregate principal balance of the motor vehicle loans. The purchase price for
the motor vehicle loans will equal the aggregate of the REPURCHASE AMOUNTS. If
the servicer elects to purchase the motor vehicle loans held by a trust, the
trust will concurrently prepay in full any notes issued by the trust and retire
any certificates issued by the trust in the manner described in the related
prospectus supplement.
The trustee and any indenture trustee will give written notice of
termination to each holder of record of securities issued by the trust. The
notice will specify the payment date on which the securityholders may surrender
their securities to the related trustee, indenture trustee or transfer agent and
registrar for final payment. The final distribution to any securityholder will
be made only upon surrender and cancellation of that holder's security at the
office or agency of the related trustee, indenture trustee or transfer agent and
registrar, as specified in the notice of termination.
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank will act as the administrator of each trust. It will
agree under an administration agreement with the trust and the related indenture
trustee to provide the notices and to perform other administrative obligations
of the trust under the related indenture. The administrator will receive a
monthly administration fee that will be described in the related prospectus
supplement as compensation for its services and reimbursement of its related
expenses. The administrator may perform its obligations directly or through one
or more of its agents. These agents may include one or more affiliates of
JPMorgan Chase Bank.
MATERIAL LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS
The motor vehicle loans are "chattel paper" as defined in the UCC in effect
in the State of New York. The sale of chattel paper is treated in a manner
similar to the creation of a security interest in chattel paper under the UCC.
In order to protect a trust's ownership interest in the motor vehicle loans
transferred to it, Chase USA will file UCC-1 financing statements with the
appropriate governmental authorities in the State of Delaware to give notice of
the trust's ownership interest in the motor vehicles loans and their proceeds.
Under the sale and servicing agreement, Chase USA, as seller, will be
obligated to maintain the perfection of the trust's ownership interest in the
motor vehicle loans. However, a purchaser of chattel paper who gives new value
and takes possession of it in the ordinary course of its business has priority
over a security interest, including an ownership interest, in the chattel paper
that is perfected by filing UCC-1 financing statements, and not by possession of
the chattel paper by the original secured party if that purchaser acted in good
faith without knowledge that the related chattel paper is subject to a security
interest. Any purchaser would not be deemed to have knowledge of the trust's
ownership interest by virtue of UCC filings and would not learn of the transfer
of the motor vehicle loans to the trust from a review of the documents
evidencing the motor vehicle loans since they will not be marked to show any
sale. The master computer records of all of the motor vehicle loans owned or
serviced by Chase USA and its affiliates will indicate the sale.
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SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE FINANCED VEHICLES
INITIAL PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS. Security interests in vehicles
registered in most states may be perfected by a notation of the secured party's
lien on, or possession of, the certificate of title for the vehicle, depending
on state law. In certain states, such as California and Virginia these liens are
noted electronically rather than on paper certificates. Chase USA and the other
originating banks obtain a representation and warranty from each dealer from
whom they purchase a motor vehicle loan under a dealer agreement to the effect
that the originating bank has been designated as the sole lien holder on the
certificate of title for the related financed vehicle. Chase USA and the other
originating banks obtain the same representation and warranty from the obligor
under a motor vehicle loan being originated directly without involvement of a
dealer. If the dealer or obligor fails, due to clerical errors or for any other
reason, to effect notation of the originating bank's interest in the financed
vehicle, the originating bank would not have a perfected first priority security
interest in the financed vehicle. If this were to occur, the originating bank's
only recourse would be against the obligor on an unsecured basis or against the
dealer under the dealer agreement.
TRANSFER OF SECURITY INTERESTS. Pursuant to the terms of each sale and
servicing agreement Chase USA will assign its security interests in the financed
vehicles securing the motor vehicle loans to each trust. The trust will grant a
security interest in those security interests in the financed vehicles to the
related indenture trustee as security for the notes. Because of the
administrative burden and expense, none of Chase USA, the trustee or the
indenture trustee will amend the certificates of title for the financed vehicles
to identify the trust or the related indenture trustee as the new secured party.
Accordingly, Chase USA or the other originating bank will continue to be named
as the secured party on the certificates of title for the financed vehicles.
In most states, assignment of a motor vehicle loan together with the
related security interest in the financed vehicle is an effective conveyance of
the security interest in the financed vehicle without amendment of any lien
noted on the certificate of title for the financed vehicle. In that case, the
assignee of the motor vehicle loan succeeds to the originating bank's rights as
a secured party in the financed vehicle as against creditors of the obligor. In
other states, in the absence of an amendment to the lien noted on the
certificate of title for the financed vehicle, Chase USA, the related trust and
the related indenture trustee may not have a perfected security interest in the
financed vehicle. In that event or if the originating bank did not obtain a
perfected first priority security interest in the financed vehicle, the only
recourse of the trust would be against the obligor on an unsecured basis or, if
the originating bank did not obtain a perfected security interest in the
financed vehicle, against Chase USA, as seller, pursuant to its repurchase
obligation. If there are any financed vehicles as to which the originating bank
has failed to obtain a perfected first priority security interest, the security
interest would be subordinate to, among others, holders of perfected security
interests and subsequent purchasers of the financed vehicles would take
possession free and clear of that security interest.
Except as described above, in the absence of fraud or forgery by a vehicle
owner or administrative error by state recording officials, the notation of the
lien of the originating bank on the certificate of title for a financed vehicle
will be sufficient to protect the trust's security interest in that financed
vehicle against the rights of subsequent purchasers of the vehicle or subsequent
lenders who take a security interest in the vehicle. There also exists a risk
that by not identifying the trust or the related indenture trustee as the new
secured party on the certificate of title for a financed vehicle, through fraud
or negligence, the security interest of the trust or indenture trustee could be
released.
MAINTENANCE OF PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS. If the owner of a financed
vehicle moves to a state other than the state in which the financed vehicle was
initially registered, under the laws of most states the perfected security
interest in the financed vehicle will continue for four months after the
relocation and thereafter until the owner re-registers the financed vehicle in
the new state. A majority of states generally require surrender of a certificate
of title to re-register a vehicle. Accordingly, Chase USA or its affiliate must
surrender possession of the certificate of title if it holds it or, if the
financed vehicle was originally registered in a state which the secured party
does not maintain possession of the certificate of title, Chase USA or its
affiliate receives a notice of the surrender of the certificate of title for
re-registration if the security interest in the financed vehicle is noted on the
certificate of title. Accordingly, Chase USA or its affiliate has the
opportunity to re-perfect the security interest in the financed vehicle in the
state of relocation. In states that do not require surrender of a certificate of
title for registration of a motor vehicle, re-registration could defeat
perfection.
In the ordinary course of servicing the motor vehicle loans, Chase USA or
its affiliate takes steps to re-perfect the security interests in the financed
vehicles upon receipt of notice of re-registration or information from the
obligor
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as to relocation. Similarly, when an obligor sells a financed vehicle, Chase USA
or its affiliate must surrender possession of the certificate of title or will
receive notice as a result of the notation of the originating bank's lien.
Accordingly Chase USA or its affiliate will have an opportunity to require full
payment and discharge of the motor vehicle loan before releasing the lien. Under
each sale and servicing agreement, the servicer will be obligated to take such
steps, at the servicer's expense, as are necessary to maintain perfection of the
security interests in the financed vehicles.
Under the laws of many states, certain possessory liens for repairs
performed on a motor vehicle and storage, as well as certain rights in favor of
federal and state governmental authorities arising from the use of a motor
vehicle in connection with illegal activities, may take priority even over a
perfected security interest in a financed vehicle. Certain U.S. federal tax
liens may have priority over the lien of a secured party in a financed vehicle.
Chase USA, as seller, will represent in each sale and servicing agreement that
as of the applicable cutoff date, it has no knowledge of any of these types of
liens on any financed vehicles. However, these types of liens could arise at any
time during the term of a motor vehicle loan. No notice will be given to the
trustee if any of these types of liens arise on the financed vehicles after the
cutoff date.
ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY INTERESTS. Chase USA, as servicer, on behalf of
each trust and the indenture trustee, may take action to enforce the security
interest in the financed vehicle securing any motor vehicle loan by repossessing
and selling the financed vehicle. The servicer may contract out to third party
contractors the actual repossession of the financed vehicle. Under the UCC and
laws applicable in most states, a creditor can repossess a motor vehicle
securing a loan by voluntary surrender, "self-help" repossession that is
"peaceful", meaning without a breach of the peace, and, in the absence of
voluntary surrender and the ability to repossess without a breach of the peace,
by judicial process. The UCC and consumer protection laws in most states place
restrictions on repossession sales, including requiring prior notice to the
obligor and commercial reasonableness in the sale. If the servicer repossesses a
financed vehicle and sells it, the trust will have the first claim on the sale
proceeds before the claims of unsecured creditors or the holders of subsequently
perfected security interests or the claim of the obligor.
Under the UCC and laws applicable in most states, a creditor is entitled to
obtain a deficiency judgment from a debtor for any deficiency on repossession
and sale of the motor vehicle securing the obligor's loan. However, some states
impose prohibitions or limitations on deficiency judgments. In general, a
defaulting obligor may not have sufficient assets to make the pursuit of a
deficiency worthwhile.
Other statutory provisions, including federal and state bankruptcy and
insolvency laws, and general equitable principles may limit or delay the ability
of a lender to repossess and resell collateral or enforce a deficiency judgment.
CERTAIN MATTERS RELATING TO RECEIVERSHIP
We are chartered as a national banking association and are subject to
regulation and supervision by the Comptroller of the Currency. If we become
insolvent, are in an unsound condition, engage in violations of laws or
regulations or if other similar circumstances occur, the Comptroller is
authorized to appoint the FDIC as conservator or receiver.
As receiver the FDIC could:
o require the trustee of the trust to go through an administrative claims
procedure to establish its right to payments collected on the motor
vehicle loans held by the trust,
o request a stay of proceedings with respect to the trust's claims against
Chase USA or
o repudiate without compensation Chase USA's ongoing obligations under the
sale and servicing agreement, such as the duty to collect payments or
otherwise service the motor vehicle loans.
If the FDIC were to take any of these actions, payments of principal and
interest on the securities issued by the trust could be delayed or reduced.
By statute, the FDIC as conservator or receiver is authorized to repudiate
any "contract" of Chase USA upon payment of "actual direct compensatory
damages." This authority may be interpreted by the FDIC to permit it to
repudiate the transfer of motor vehicle loans to a trust. Under a recently
enacted FDIC regulation, however, the FDIC as conservator or receiver will not
reclaim, recover or re-characterize a bank's transfer of financial assets if
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certain conditions are met, including that the transfer qualifies for sale
accounting treatment, was made for adequate consideration and was not made
fraudulently, in contemplation of insolvency, or with the intent to hinder,
delay or defraud the bank or its creditors. We believe the new FDIC regulation
will apply to the transfer of motor vehicle loans under a sale and servicing
agreement, and intend to satisfy the conditions of the regulation.
If a condition required under the FDIC regulation, or other statutory or
regulatory requirement applicable to the transaction, were found not to have
been satisfied, the FDIC as conservator or receiver might refuse to recognize
Chase USA's transfer of the motor vehicle loans to the trust. In that event the
trust could be limited to seeking recovery based upon its security interest in
the motor vehicle loans. The FDIC's statutory authority has been interpreted by
the FDIC and at least one court to permit the repudiation of a security interest
upon payment of actual direct compensatory damages measured as of the date of
conservatorship or receivership. These damages do not include damages for lost
profits or opportunity, and no damages would be paid for the period between the
date of conservatorship or receivership and the date of repudiation. The FDIC
could delay its decision whether to recognize Chase USA's transfer of the motor
vehicle loans for a reasonable period following its appointment as conservator
or receiver for the bank. If the FDIC were to refuse to recognize Chase USA's
transfer of the motor vehicle loans, payments of principal and interest on the
securities issued by the trust could be delayed or reduced.
In the event that the FDIC refused to recognize the transfer of motor
vehicle loans and repudiated a trust's security interest in the motor vehicle
loans, the amount of compensation that the FDIC would be required to pay would
be limited to "actual direct compensatory damages" determined as of the date of
the FDIC's appointment as receiver. There is no statutory definition of "actual
direct compensatory damages." The staff of the FDIC takes the position that upon
repudiation or disaffirmation, these damages would not include interest accrued
to the date of actual repudiation or disaffirmation. Under the FDIC
interpretation, securityholders would receive interest only through the date of
the appointment of the receiver. Since the FDIC may delay actual repudiation or
disaffirmation for up to 180 days following its appointment as receiver, the
securityholders may not receive the full amount of interest owed to them under
the securities. There is one reported federal district court decision that
construes the term "actual direct compensatory damages." This 1993 court case
construed the term, in the context of the repudiation of zero coupon bonds, to
mean the fair market value of those bonds as of the date of repudiation. Under
neither interpretation, however, would securityholders be compensated for the
period between the appointment of the receiver and the date of repudiation.
CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS
Numerous federal and state consumer protection laws may impose requirements
applicable to the origination and lending pursuant to the motor vehicle loans,
including the Truth in Lending Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal
Credit Opportunity Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and the Federal Trade
Commission Act.
The so-called "holder-in-due-course" rule of the Federal Trade Commission,
other state statutes or the common law in certain states have the effect of
subjecting a seller, and certain related lenders and their assignees, in a
consumer credit transaction and any assignee of the seller, which would include
each trust, to all claims and defenses that the obligor in the transaction could
assert against the seller of the goods. Liability of a subsequent holder under
the "holder-in-due-course" rule is limited to the amounts paid by the obligor
under the contract, and a subsequent holder of the contract may also be unable
to collect any balance remaining due under the contract from the obligor. The
Uniform Consumer Credit Code, applicable in certain states, contains provisions
which generally duplicate this rule.
Each sale and servicing agreement will set forth criteria that must be
satisfied by each motor vehicle loan, and these criteria will include, among
other things, that each motor vehicle loan complies with all requirements of law
in all material respects. Accordingly, if an obligor has a claim against a trust
for violation of any law and that claim materially and adversely affects the
related securityholders' interest in the motor vehicle loan, that violation
would result in the motor vehicle loan's failure to satisfy a criterion in the
related sale and servicing agreement and would give rise to Chase USA's
obligation, as seller, to repurchase the motor vehicle loan unless the failure
is cured.
Under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, members of the
military on active duty, including reservists, who have entered into a motor
vehicle loan before entering into military service or, in the case of
reservists, before being placed on active duty, may be entitled to reductions in
interest rates to an annual rate of 6% and a stay of foreclosure and similar
actions. The Relief Act applies to members of the Army, the Navy, the Air
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Force, the Marines, the National Guard, the Reserves (when placed on
active duty), the Coast Guard and officers of the U.S. Public Health Service
assigned to duty with the military. Because the Relief Act covers obligors who
enter military service (including reservists who are called to active duty)
after origination of the motor vehicle loan, no information can be provided as
to the number of motor vehicle loans transferred to a trust that may be
affected. Any resulting shortfalls in interest or principal payments on the
motor vehicle loans will reduce the amount available to make payments on the
securities issued by a trust.
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS
Before investing in the securities issued by any trust, a Plan fiduciary
should consider, among other matters:
o ERISA'S fiduciary standards or similar standards under SIMILAR LAWS,
o whether an investment in the securities by the PLAN satisfies the
prudence and diversification requirements of ERISA or applicable
standards under SIMILAR LAWS, taking into account the overall investment
policy of the PLAN, the composition of the PLAN'S portfolio and any
limitations on the marketability of the securities,
o whether those fiduciaries have authority to make an investment in the
securities under the applicable PLAN investment policies and governing
instruments and
o rules under ERISA and the tax code or similar standards under Similar
Laws that prohibit plan fiduciaries from causing a PLAN to engage in
certain "prohibited transactions."
Under the PLAN ASSETS REGULATION, if a PLAN subject to ERISA invests in an
"equity interest" of an entity that is neither a publicly-offered security nor a
security issued by an investment company registered under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, the PLAN'S assets will include both the equity interest and an
undivided interest in each of the entity's underlying assets, unless it is
established that the entity is an operating company or that equity participation
in the entity by benefit plan investors is not significant. An "equity interest"
is an interest in an entity other than an instrument that is treated as
indebtedness under applicable local law and which has no substantial equity
features. The prospectus supplement relating to the securities of each trust
will indicate the expected treatment of those securities under the PLAN ASSETS
REGULATION. If the underlying assets of the trust or Chase USA were to be deemed
to be "plan assets" of PLANS under ERISA, this would result, among other things,
in:
o the application of the prudence and other fiduciary responsibility
standards of ERISA to activities engaged in by Chase USA, the trustee and
others and
o the possibility that certain transactions in which Chase USA, the trustee
and others may seek to engage could constitute "prohibited transactions"
under ERISA and the tax code.
If a prohibited transaction occurs for which no exemption is available, Chase
USA, the trustee and any other fiduciary that has engaged in the prohibited
transaction could be required to:
o restore to the PLAN any profit realized on the transaction and
o reimburse the PLAN for any losses suffered by it as a result of the
investment.
In addition, each disqualified person, within the meaning of Section 4975 of the
tax code, involved could be subject to an excise tax equal to 15% of the amount
involved in the prohibited transaction for each year the transaction continues
and, unless the transaction is corrected within statutorily required periods, an
additional tax of 100% of the amount involved. PLAN fiduciaries who decide to
invest in the securities issued by a trust could, under certain circumstances,
be liable for prohibited transactions or other violations as a result of their
investment or as co-fiduciaries for actions taken by or on behalf of Chase USA
or the trust. With respect to an individual retirement account, or IRA, that
invests in the securities, the occurrence of a prohibited transaction involving
the individual who established the IRA, or his or her beneficiaries, would cause
the IRA to lose it tax-exempt status.
Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the tax code prohibit PLANS
subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the tax code from engaging in
specified transactions involving plan assets with persons or entities who are
"parties in interest", within the meaning of ERISA, or "disqualified persons",
within the meaning of Section 4975 of the tax code. The acquisition and/or
ownership of the securities issued by a trust by a PLAN, with respect to which
the trust or the holder of the certificates issued by the trust is considered a
party in interest or a disqualified person, may
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constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the tax code, unless those securities are acquired and are held
in accordance with an applicable statutory, regulatory, class or individual
prohibited transaction exemption. In this regard, the U.S. Department of Labor
has issued prohibited transaction class exemptions, called PTCEs, that may apply
to the acquisition and holding of the securities. These class exemptions
include, among others, PTCE 84-14 respecting transactions effected by
independent qualified professional asset managers, PTCE 90-1 respecting
insurance company pooled separate accounts, PTCE 91-38 respecting bank
collective investment funds, PTCE 95-60 respecting insurance company general
accounts and PTCE 96-23 respecting transactions effected by in-house asset
managers. However, these exemptions may not apply to all transactions arising in
connection with an investment by Plans in the securities issued by a trust,
particularly if, as described above, the assets of the trust are considered to
be plan assets.
SIMILAR LAWS governing the investment and management of the assets of
governmental, church and non-U.S. plans may contain fiduciary and prohibited
transaction requirements similar to those under ERISA and the tax code.
Accordingly, fiduciaries of governmental PLANS, church plans and non-U.S. PLANS,
in consultation with their advisors, should consider the impact on investments
in the securities of any SIMILAR LAWS and the considerations described above.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
The securities of each trust may be sold to or through underwriters by a
negotiated firm commitment underwriting and public reoffering by the
underwriters or other underwriting arrangement as may be specified in the
related prospectus supplement or may be placed either directly or through
agents. Chase USA intends the securities to be offered through those various
methods from time to time and that offerings may be made concurrently through
more than one of those methods or that an offering of the securities issued by a
trust may be made through a combination of those methods.
Each prospectus supplement will either:
o set forth the price at which each class of securities being offered will
be offered to the public and any concessions that may be offered to
dealers participating in the offering of the securities or
o specify that the securities are to be resold by the underwriters in
negotiated transactions at varying prices to be determined at the time of
the sale.
After the initial public offering of any securities, public offering prices and
concessions may be changed.
Each underwriting agreement will provide that Chase USA will indemnify the
underwriters against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or Chase USA will contribute to payments the
underwriters may be required to make in respect of those liabilities.
Each trust may, from time to time, invest the funds in its trust accounts
in eligible investments acquired from the underwriters or from Chase USA or any
of its affiliates.
Any underwriter will be permitted to engage in the following transactions,
to the extent permitted by Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934:
o over-allotment transactions, which involve syndicate sales in excess of
the offering size creating a syndicate short position,
o stabilizing transactions, which permit bids to purchase the offered
securities so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified
maximum,
o syndicate covering transactions, which involve purchases of the offered
securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed
in order to cover syndicate short positions, and
o penalty bids, which permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling
concession from a syndicate member when the offered securities originally
sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a syndicate covering
transaction.
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Such over-allotment transactions, stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering
transactions and penalty bids may cause prices of the offered securities to be
higher than they would otherwise be in the absence of such transactions. Neither
Chase USA nor any of the underwriters represent that the underwriters will
engage in any these transactions nor that these transactions, once commenced,
will not be discontinued without notice.
This prospectus and the attached prospectus supplement may be used by J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., an affiliate of Chase USA and a subsidiary of J.P.
Morgan Chase & Co., in connection with offers and sales related to market-making
transactions in the offered securities. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. may act as
principal or agent in those transactions. Such sales will be made at prices
related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale.
RATINGS
The securities of each trust offered pursuant to this prospectus and a
related prospectus supplement will be rated at its initial issuance in one of
the four highest categories by at least one nationally recognized statistical
rating organization.
A securities rating addresses the likelihood of the receipt by the
securityholders of scheduled interest and principal payments. The rating takes
into consideration the characteristics of the motor vehicle loans and the
structural, legal and tax aspects associated with the securities. The ratings on
the securities do not, however, constitute statements regarding the likelihood
or frequency of prepayments on the motor vehicle loans or the possibility that
the securityholders might realize a lower than anticipated yield or that if
there is a rapid rate of principal payments, including prepayments, on the motor
vehicle loans, investors in interest-only securities could fail to recover their
initial investments.
A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities
and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating
agency. No person is obligated to maintain the rating on any security, and,
accordingly, there can be no assurance that the ratings assigned to a security
upon initial issuance will not be lowered or withdrawn by a rating agency at any
time.
LEGAL MATTERS
Certain legal matters relating to the issuance of the securities by each
trust will be passed upon for Chase USA by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York,
New York, and other counsel as specified in the related prospectus supplement.
Certain legal matters will be passed upon for the underwriters by Sidley Austin
Brown & Wood LLP, New York, New York. From time to time Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP provide legal services to Chase USA
and its affiliates.
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR PROSPECTUS
ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES provide for amortization of the loan over a series of
fixed level payment monthly installments. Each monthly installment, including
the final payment, consists of an amount of interest equal to 1/12th of the
annual contract rate of interest on the loan multiplied by the unpaid principal
balance of the loan, and an amount of principal equal to the remainder of the
monthly payment.
ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT means an agreement among JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
administrator, a trust and the related indenture trustee, pursuant to which the
administrator agrees to perform certain administrative duties on behalf of the
trust.
ADMINISTRATOR means JPMorgan Chase Bank as the administrator of a trust.
ADVANCES are amounts advanced by Chase USA, as servicer, in respect of
delinquent scheduled payments on the motor vehicle loans held by a trust in the
amounts and under the circumstances specified in the related prospectus
supplement.
BOOK-ENTRY SECURITIES are securities that are held in the U.S. through DTC
and in Europe through Clearstream or Euroclear.
CHASE AUTO PORTFOLIO is the portfolio of motor vehicle loans originated by
Chase USA or one of the other originating banks either through or with the
involvement of dealers acting pursuant to dealer agreements and serviced by
Chase USA or one of its affiliates.
CHASE USA means Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association.
CLEARSTREAM is Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, a professional
depository under the laws of Luxembourg.
CLEARSTREAM CUSTOMERS are organizations participating in Clearstream's
book-entry settlement system for trading of securities in Europe.
CLOSING DATE is the date specified in the related prospectus supplement as
the date on which the trust issues its securities.
COLLECTION PERIOD means, with respect to the securities issued by each
trust, the period specified in the related prospectus supplement with respect to
calculating payments and proceeds of the related motor vehicle loans.
CONTROLLING CLASS means, with respect to any trust, the most senior class
of securities issued by that trust as long as those securities are outstanding,
and thereafter, in order of seniority, each other class of securities issued by
that trust described in the prospectus supplement as long as they are
outstanding.
CUTOFF DATE is the date specified in the related prospectus supplement as
the date as of which the motor vehicle loans are being transferred to the trust.
DEFERRED PAYMENT RECEIVABLES are either ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES or SIMPLE
INTEREST RECEIVABLES that provide for the deferral of the initial scheduled
payment.
DEFINITIVE SECURITIES are securities in fully registered, certificated
form.
DTC means The Depository Trust Company and any successor depository
selected by or on behalf of the trust.
ELIGIBLE DEPOSIT ACCOUNT is either:
o a separately identifiable deposit account established in the deposit
taking department of a Qualified Institution or
o a segregated identifiable trust account established in the trust
department of a Qualified Trust Institution.
ERISA means Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
EUROCLEAR is the system operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.
EUROCLEAR PARTICIPANTS are participants in the Euroclear system.
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EVENT OF DEFAULT is one of the events under each indenture specified in the
section of this prospectus entitled "The Indenture--Events of Default."
EVENT OF SERVICING TERMINATION is one of the events under each sale and
servicing agreement specified in the section of this prospectus entitled
"Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing--Events of Servicing Termination."
FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLES are either ACTUARIAL RECEIVABLES or SIMPLE
INTEREST RECEIVABLES that provide for a final scheduled payment which is greater
than the scheduled monthly payments. The obligation to make the final scheduled
payment on a FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVABLE may be satisfied by:
o a cash payment in full of the amount due,
o transferring the financed vehicle to us or
o refinancing the final scheduled payment.
FUNDING PERIOD is the period, if any, after the closing date specified in
the related prospectus supplement during which the seller will sell additional
motor vehicle loans to the trust.
INDENTURE is an agreement between the trust and the applicable indenture
trustee pursuant to which the trust will issue notes.
INDENTURE TRUSTEE means the trustee for the holders of the notes issued by
a trust identified in the related prospectus supplement.
MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS are
o motor vehicle retail installment sales contracts relating to new or used
automobiles and light-duty trucks purchased from dealers who regularly
originate and sell motor vehicle loans to Chase USA or one of the
originating banks,
o purchase money loans secured by new or used automobiles and light-duty
trucks made by Chase USA or one of the originating banks directly or
pursuant to arrangements with dealers in accordance with approved
agreements with the dealers or
o motor vehicle retail installment sales contracts relating to, and
purchase money loans secured by, new or used automobiles and light-duty
trucks purchased by the originating banks from other originators of motor
vehicle loans.
ORIGINATING BANK means Chase USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank or any bank
affiliated with either of them engaged in the business of originating motor
vehicle loans.
PAYMENT DATE means the date for the payment or distribution of principal of
and interest on the securities of each trust specified in the related prospectus
supplement.
PERMITTED INVESTMENTS are investments confirmed by the rating agencies
rating the securities issued by a trust as being consistent with the rating of
those securities. These investments may include securities issued by Chase USA
or its affiliates or trusts originated by Chase USA or its affiliates, and may
also include money market mutual funds for which JPMorgan Chase Bank or any of
its affiliates serves as an investment advisor, administrator, shareholder
servicing agent and/or custodian or subcustodian, for which it collects fees and
expenses.
PLAN ASSETS REGULATION is regulation, 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, issued
by the U.S. Department of Labor.
PLANS means employee benefit plans that are subject to ERISA, plans,
individual retirement accounts and other arrangements that are subject to
Section 4975 of the tax code or provisions under SIMILAR LAWS, and entities
whose underlying assets are considered to include "plan assets" of such plans,
accounts and arrangements.
PRE-FUNDING ACCOUNT is, with respect to a trust that is authorized to
purchase additional receivables during a funding period, not to exceed one year,
specified in the related prospectus supplement, a trust account in which the
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seller deposits a sum on the closing date to be used by the trust to pay for
additional motor vehicle loans to be acquired by the trust during the funding
period.
PTCE is a Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption under ERISA.
QUALIFIED INSTITUTION is a depository institution, including Chase USA and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, organized under the laws of the United States or any state
or incorporated under the laws of a foreign jurisdiction with a branch or agency
located in the United States or any state and subject to supervision and
examination by federal or state banking authorities, having a short-term
certificate of deposit rating and a long-term unsecured debt rating confirmed by
each rating agency rating the securities issued by a trust as being consistent
with the ratings of those securities and the deposits of which are insured by
the FDIC.
QUALIFIED TRUST INSTITUTION is an institution organized under the laws of
the United States or any state or incorporated under the laws of a foreign
jurisdiction with a branch or agency located in the United States and subject to
supervision and examination by federal or state banking authorities with the
authority to act under the laws of the United States or any state as a trustee
or in any other fiduciary capacity having not less than $1 billion in assets
under fiduciary management and a long-term deposit rating confirmed by each
rating agency rating the securities issued by a trust as being consistent with
the ratings of those securities.
RELATED DOCUMENTS are, in respect of each trust, the related sale and
servicing agreement, indenture, trust agreement, administration agreement, any
agreements relating to the credit enhancement for the securities issued by that
trust and depository agreements with DTC.
REPURCHASE AMOUNT of a motor vehicle loan being repurchased by Chase USA,
as seller, or purchased, as servicer, pursuant to the sale and servicing
agreement, is the sum, as of the last day of the Collection Period on which such
motor vehicle loan is being repurchased or purchased, of the principal balance
of that motor vehicle loan plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, calculated
in the manner specified in the related prospectus supplement.
SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT is an agreement between Chase USA, as seller
and servicer, and the trust pursuant to which motor vehicle loans are sold to
the trust and the servicer agrees to service the motor vehicle loans.
SELLER is Chase USA, as the seller of motor vehicle loans to a trust.
SERVICER is Chase USA, as the servicer of the motor vehicle loans sold to a
trust, pursuant to a sale and servicing agreement and any successor to Chase USA
as servicer under the sale and servicing agreement.
SIMILAR LAWS means applicable federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws
or regulations that contain a provision or provisions that are similar to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the tax code.
SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLES provide for the allocation of payments made to
principal and interest in accordance with the "simple interest" method. As
payments are received under a SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE, the finance charges
accrued to date are paid first, the unpaid amount financed, to the extent of the
remaining monthly scheduled payment, is paid second and the remaining payment is
applied to the unpaid late charges. Accordingly, if an obligor under a SIMPLE
INTEREST RECEIVABLE pays the fixed monthly installment in advance of the date on
which a payment is due, the portion of the payment allocable to finance charges
for the period since the preceding payment will be less than it would be if the
payment were made on the due date, and the portion of the payment allocable to
reduce the amount financed will be correspondingly greater. Conversely, if the
obligor pays the fixed monthly installment after the due date, the portion of
the payment allocable to finance charges for the period since the last payment
will be greater than it would be if the payment were made on the due date, and
the portion of the payment allocable to reduce the amount financed will be
correspondingly smaller. When necessary, an adjustment is made at the maturity
of the loan to the scheduled final payment to reflect the larger or smaller
allocations of payments, as the case may be, to the amount financed under a
SIMPLE INTEREST RECEIVABLE as a result of early or late payments.
TAX CODE is the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
TRUST AGREEMENT is a trust agreement between Chase USA, as depositor, and
the trustee pursuant to which the trust is created and certificates are issued
by the trust.
TRUSTEE is the trustee of the trust identified in the related prospectus
supplement.
UCC is the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the applicable
jurisdiction from time to time.
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PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
$2,024,000,000
CHASE MANHATTAN AUTO OWNER TRUST 2002-A
$1,973,400,000 ASSET BACKED NOTES
$50,600,000 ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
SELLER AND SERVICER
UNDERWRITERS OF THE NOTES
JPMORGAN
BEAR, STEARNS & CO. INC.
DEUTSCHE BANC ALEX. BROWN
LEHMAN BROTHERS
THE WILLIAMS CAPITAL GROUP
UNDERWRITER OF THE CERTIFICATES
JPMORGAN
YOU SHOULD RELY ONLY ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE PROSPECTUS AND THIS
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT. WE HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED ANYONE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH OTHER
OR DIFFERENT INFORMATION. YOU SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THE INFORMATION IN THE
PROSPECTUS OR THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IS ACCURATE ON ANY DATE OTHER THAN THE
DATES STATED ON THE RESPECTIVE COVERS.
WE ARE NOT OFFERING THE NOTES OR THE CERTIFICATES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER
IS NOT PERMITTED.
DEALERS WILL DELIVER A PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND PROSPECTUS WHEN ACTING AS
UNDERWRITERS OF THE NOTES AND THE CERTIFICATES AND WITH RESPECT TO THEIR UNSOLD
ALLOTMENTS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS. IN ADDITION, ALL DEALERS SELLING THE NOTES OR THE
CERTIFICATES WILL DELIVER A PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND PROSPECTUS UNTIL MAY ,
2002 (90 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT).
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. WE MAY
NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE
ATTACHED PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT ARE NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND
THEY ARE NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE
OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.