Lendmark Financial Funding 2022-1, LLC Form ABS-15G Filed 2022-06-06

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM ABS-15G

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIZER

REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15G OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Check the appropriate box to indicate the filing obligation to which this form is intended to satisfy:

☐	Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.15Ga-1) for the reporting period

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

Commission File Number of securitizer:

Central Index Key Number of securitizer:

Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this filing.

Indicate by check mark whether the securitizer has no activity to report for the initial period pursuant to Rule 15Ga-1(c)(1) ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the securitizer has no activity to report for the quarterly period pursuant to Rule 15Ga-1(c)(2)(i) ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the securitizer has no activity to report for the annual period pursuant to Rule 15Ga-1(c)(2)(ii) ☐

☒	Rule 15Ga-2 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.15Ga-2)

Central Index Key Number of depositor:

0001927039

Lendmark Funding Trust 2022-1

(Exact name of issuing entity as specified in its charter)

Central Index Key Number of issuing entity (if applicable):
Central Index Key Number of underwriter (if applicable):

Sweta Patel, 678-625-6587

Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this filing

SEC 2860 (6-15)

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Item 2.01

Findings and Conclusions of a Third Party Due Diligence Report Obtained by the Issuer

Disclosures under Rule 15Ga-2 (17 CFR 240.15Ga-2) are attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form ABS-15G.

Exhibits

99.1	Independent Accountants’ Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures dated May 27, 2022.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the reporting entity has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Lendmark Financial Funding 2022-1, LLC

(Securitizer, Depositor or Underwriter)

Date

June 6, 2022

/s/ Sweta Patel	(Signature)*

*Sweta Patel, Secretary

Independent Accountants’ Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures

Lendmark Financial Services, LLC (“the Company”)

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (the “Structuring Agent”)

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Barclays Capital Inc.

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

(together, the “Specified Parties”):

Re: Lendmark Funding Trust 2022-1 – Data File Procedures

We have performed the procedures described below on the specified attributes in an electronic data file entitled “2022_1_proforma_based_21_2_04_30_2022.xlsb” provided by the Company on May 9, 2022, containing information on 89,145 consumer loans (the “Loans”) as of April 30, 2022 (the “Data File”), which we were informed are intended to be included as collateral in the offering by Lendmark Funding Trust 2022-1. The Company is responsible for the specified attributes identified by the Company in the Data File.

The Specified Parties have agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet their intended purpose of assisting specified parties in evaluating the accuracy of the specified attributes in the Data File. This report may not be suitable for any other purpose. No other parties have agreed to or acknowledged the appropriateness of these procedures for the intended purpose or any other purpose.

The procedures performed may not address all the items of interest to a specified party of this report and may not meet the needs of all specified parties of this report and, as such, specified parties are responsible for determining whether the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes. We make no representation regarding the appropriateness of the procedures either for the intended purpose or for any other purpose.

Unless otherwise stated, the following definitions have been adopted in presenting our procedures and findings:

•	The term “compared” means compared to the information shown and found it to be in agreement, unless otherwise stated. Such compared information was deemed to be in agreement if differences were within the reporting threshold.

•	The term “recomputed” means recalculated and compared the result to the information shown and found it to be in agreement, unless otherwise stated. Such recomputed information was deemed to be in agreement if differences were within the reporting threshold.

•	The term “reporting threshold” means that dollar amounts, percentages, and calendar days were within $0.50, 0.025%, and 30 days, respectively.

•	The term “Loan Files” means copies of loan agreements for each Selected Loan (defined below) provided by the Company. We make no representation regarding the validity or accuracy of these documents or the execution of the documents in the Loan Files by the borrower.

•	The term “Instructions” means the instructions provided by the Company pertaining to a procedure, an attribute, or methodology as described in the “Source Document/Instructions” column of Exhibit A.

•	The term “Provided Information” means the Loan Files and Instructions.

KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and a member firm of

the KPMG global organization of independent member firms affiliated with

KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee.

The procedures we were instructed by the Company to perform and the associated findings are as follows:

A.	We randomly selected a sample of 300 Loans from the Data File (the “Selected Loans”). For purposes of this procedure, the Company did not inform us of the basis they used to determine the number of Loans we were instructed to randomly select from the Data File.

For each Selected Loan, we compared or recomputed the specified attributes listed in Exhibit A to or using the corresponding information included in the Loan Files, utilizing the Instructions, as applicable. The Specified Parties indicated that the absence of any of the information in the Loan Files or the inability to agree the indicated information from the Data File to the Loan Files for each of the attributes identified, utilizing the Instructions as applicable, constituted an exception.

We were engaged by the Company to perform this agreed-upon procedures engagement and conducted our engagement in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, which involves us performing the specific procedures agreed to and acknowledged above and reporting on findings based on performing those procedures. We were not engaged to, and did not, conduct an examination or review, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the specified attributes in the Data File. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported.

We are required to be independent of the Company and to meet our other ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement.

The procedures performed were applied based on the information included in the Data File and Provided Information, without verification or evaluation of such information by us; therefore, we express no opinion or any other form of assurance regarding (i) the reasonableness of the information provided to us by the Company, (ii) the physical existence of the [underlying assets], (iii) the reliability or accuracy of the Provided Information which was used in our procedures, or (iv) matters of legal interpretation.

The procedures performed were not intended to address, nor did they address: (i) the conformity of the origination of the [underlying assets] to stated underwriting or credit extension guidelines, standards, criteria or other requirements, (ii) the value of collateral securing any such [underlying assets] being securitized, (iii) the compliance of the originator of the Loans with federal, state, and local laws and regulations, or (iv) any other factor or characteristic of the Loans that would be material to the likelihood that the issuer of the asset-backed securities will pay interest and principal in accordance with applicable terms and conditions. The procedures performed were not intended to satisfy any criteria for due diligence published by the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (“NRSROs”).

The terms of our engagement are such that we have no responsibility to update this report because of events and circumstances that may subsequently occur.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Specified Parties. It is not intended to be and should not be used by any other person or entity, including investors or the NRSROs, who are not identified in the report as the Specified Parties but may have access to this report as required by law or regulation.

McLean, Virginia

May 27, 2022

THE FOLLOWING PAGES CONSTITUTE EXHIBIT A

#	Attribute	Source Document / Instructions
1	OrigBrACct Account number, unique identifier	n/a (information purpose only)
2	Borrower_LastName First five characters of the borrower(s) last name	Loan File
3	Origination_Date Date of contract	Loan File Origination_Date is determined as the later of the following three dates as listed in the Loan File: (i) contract date (ii) delivery date (iii) purchase date
4	APR_Original Annual percentage rate (APR)	Loan File
5	Original_Monthly_Payment Monthly payment amount	Loan File
6	Original_Term Original loan term to maturity	Loan File
7	Total_Of_Payments Total of payments	Loan File

A-1