UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
| x | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
| For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 |
| ¨ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period from __________________________ to ___________________________
Commission File Number of Issuing Entity 333-229037-09
Central Index Key Number of Issuing Entity 0001888347
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C
(Exact Name of Issuing Entity as Specified in its Charter)
Commission File Number of Depositor 333-229037
Central Index Key Number of Depositor 0001260125
Hyundai ABS Funding, LLC
(Exact Name of Depositor as Specified in its Charter)
Central Index Key Number of Sponsor 0001541028
Hyundai Capital America
(Exact Name of Sponsor as Specified in its Charter)
| Delaware | 33-0978453 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation of the Registrant) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No. of the Registrant) |
| c/o 3161 Michelson Drive, Irvine, California | 92612 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices of Registrant) | (Zip Code of Registrant) |
| (949) 732-2697 |
| (Registrant’s telephone number including area code) |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| None | None | None |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ¨ Yes xNo
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. ¨ Yes x No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. xYes ¨ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ⌧ Yes ¨ No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
| Large Accelerated filer ¨ | Accelerated filer ¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer x | Smaller reporting company ¨ |
| Emerging Growth Company: ¨ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ¨
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ¨ Yes xNo
State the aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. Not applicable.
Documents incorporated by reference
List hereunder the following documents if incorporated by reference and the Part of the Form 10-K (e.g., Part I, Part II, etc.) into which the document is incorporated: (1) Any annual report to security holders; (2) Any proxy or information statement; and (3) Any prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (c) under the Securities Act of 1933. The listed documents should be clearly described for identification purposes (e.g., annual report to security holders for fiscal year ended December 24, 1980). None.
PART I
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K:
| (A) | Item 1. Business | |
| (B) | Item 1A. Risk Factors and Item 1C. Cybersecurity | |
| (C) | Item 2. Properties | |
| (D) | Item 3. Legal Proceedings |
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 4. [Reserved]
PART II
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K.
| (A) | Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities. | |
| (B) | [Reserved]. | |
| (C) | Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. | |
| (D) | Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. | |
| (E) | Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. | |
| (F) | Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. | |
| (G) | Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. |
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
PART III
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(1) TO FORM 10−K.
| (A) | Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. | |
| (B) | Item 11. Executive Compensation. | |
| (C) | Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. | |
| (D) | Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. | |
| (E) | Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services. |
SUBSTITUTE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL INSTRUCTION J(2) TO FORM 10-K:
Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB. Significant obligors of pool assets (Financial Information):
Not applicable.
Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB. Credit Enhancement and Other Support, Except for Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Not applicable.
Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB. Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
Not applicable.
Item 1117 of Regulation AB. Legal Proceedings.
The Indenture Trustee is Citibank, N.A., a national banking association and wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., a Delaware corporation. Citibank, N.A. performs as Indenture Trustee through the Agency and Trust line of business, a part of Issuer Services. Citibank, N.A. has primary corporate trust offices located in both New York and London. Citibank, N.A. is a leading provider of corporate trust services offering a full range of agency, fiduciary, tender and exchange, depositary and escrow services. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, Citibank’s Agency and Trust group manages in excess of $8 trillion in fixed income and equity investments on behalf of over 3,000 corporations worldwide. Since 1987, Citibank Agency and Trust has provided corporate trust services for asset-backed securities containing pool assets consisting of airplane leases, auto loans and leases, boat loans, commercial loans, commodities, credit cards, durable goods, equipment leases, foreign securities, funding agreement backed note programs, truck loans, utilities, student loans and commercial and residential mortgages. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, Citibank, N.A. acts as indenture trustee and/or paying agent for approximately 273 various asset backed trusts supported by either auto loans or leases or equipment loans or leases.
No other legal proceedings are pending, and no legal proceedings are known to be contemplated by governmental authorities, against any of Hyundai Capital America (the “Sponsor” and “Servicer”), Hyundai ABS Funding, LLC (the “Depositor”), Citibank, N.A. (the “Indenture Trustee”) or Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C (the “Issuing Entity”), or of which any property of the foregoing is the subject, that are material to holders of the asset-backed notes or the certificates.
Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Affiliations and Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
Information contemplated by Item 1119 of Regulation AB has been omitted from this report on Form 10-K in reliance on Instruction to Item 1119 of Regulation AB.
Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria
The Servicer and the Indenture Trustee (together, the “Servicing Parties”) have each been identified by the registrant as parties participating in the servicing function with respect to the asset pool held by the Issuing Entity. Each of the Servicing Parties has completed a report on an assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to it (each, a “Servicing Report”), which Servicing Reports are attached as exhibits to this Form 10-K. In addition, each of the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee has provided an attestation report (each, an “Attestation Report”) by one or more independent registered public accounting firms, which reports are also attached as exhibits to this Form 10-K. None of the Servicing Reports prepared by any of the Servicing Parties, and none of the related Attestation Reports, has identified any material instance of noncompliance with the servicing criteria applicable to the respective Servicing Party.
Item 1123 of Regulation AB. Servicer Compliance Statement.
The Servicer has been identified by the registrant as a servicer with respect to the asset pool held by the Issuing Entity. The Servicer has completed a statement of compliance with applicable servicing agreement (a “Compliance Statement”) signed by an authorized officer of the Servicer. The Compliance Statement is attached as an exhibit to this Form 10-K.
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.
(a) List of Documents Filed as Part of this Report
(1) Not applicable.
(2) Not applicable.
(3) The exhibits filed in response to Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in the Exhibit Index.
(b) The exhibits filed in response to Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed in the Exhibit Index.
(c) Not applicable.
Item 16. Form 10–K Summary.
Not applicable.
Supplemental
information to be furnished with Reports Filed
Pursuant to Section 15(d) of
the Act by Registrants which have not
Registered Securities Pursuant to Section 12 of the Act.
No annual report, proxy statement, form of proxy or other proxy soliciting material has been sent to the registrant’s securityholders, and the registrant does not presently contemplate sending any such materials subsequent to the filing of this report.
EXHIBIT INDEX
The following exhibits are filed as part of this annual report or, where indicated, were heretofore filed and are hereby incorporated by reference.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: March 22, 2024 | HYUNDAI ABS FUNDING, LLC | |
| By: | /s/ Charley Changmin Yoon | |
| Name: Charley Changmin Yoon | ||
| Title:President and Secretary(senior officer in charge of securitization of the depositor) | ||
Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302(A) OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Charley Changmin Yoon, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this report on Form 10-K and all reports on Form 10-D required to be filed in respect of the period covered by this report on Form 10-K of Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C (the “Exchange Act periodic reports”);
2. Based on my knowledge, the Exchange Act periodic reports, taken as a whole, do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, all of the distribution, servicing and other information required to be provided under Form 10-D for the period covered by this report is included in the Exchange Act periodic reports;
4. Based on my knowledge and the servicer compliance statement required in this report under Item 1123 of Regulation AB, and except as disclosed in the Exchange Act periodic reports, the servicer has fulfilled its obligations under the servicing agreement in all material respects; and
5. All of the reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria for asset-backed securities and their related attestation reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria for asset-backed securities required to be included in this report in accordance with Item 1122 of Regulation AB and Exchange Act Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 have been included as an exhibit to this report, except as otherwise disclosed in this report. Any material instances of noncompliance described in such reports have been disclosed in this report on Form 10-K.
In giving the certifications above, I have reasonably relied on information provided to me by the following unaffiliated party: Citibank, N.A.
Date: March 22, 2024
| By: | /s/ Charley Changmin Yoon | ||
| Name: | Charley Changmin Yoon | ||
| Title: | President and Secretary (senior officer in charge of securitization of the depositor) | ||
Exhibit 33.1
Management’s Assessment on Compliance with SEC Regulation AB Criteria
Management of Hyundai Capital America (the Company) is responsible for assessing compliance with the applicable servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB of the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the servicing of auto receivable backed security transactions issued on or after January 1, 2006 (the Platform), except for servicing criteria 1122(d)(1)(iii)-(iv), 1122(d)(2)(iv), 1122(d)(3)(iii)-(iv), 1122(d)(4)(ix)-(xiii), and 1122(d)(4)(xv), which the Company has determined are not applicable to the activities it performs with respect to the Platform (the Applicable Servicing Criteria) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023 (the Reporting Period). With respect to Applicable Servicing Criteria 1122(d)(2)(iii), there were no activities performed during the year ended December 31, 2023 with respect to the Platform because there were no occurrences of events that would require the Company to perform such activities. Appendix A identifies the individual asset-backed transactions and securities defined by management as constituting the Platform.
With respect to servicing criteria 1122(d)(2)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(iv), management has engaged various vendors to perform the activities required by these servicing criteria. The Company’s management has determined that none of these vendors is considered a “servicer,” as defined in Item 1101(j) of Regulation AB, and the Company’s management has elected to take responsibility for assessing compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to each vendor as permitted by the SEC’s Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (“C&DI”) 200.06, Vendors Engaged by Servicers (C&DI 200.06). Management has policies and procedures in place designed to provide reasonable assurance that the vendors’ activities comply in all material respects with the servicing criteria applicable to each vendor. The Company’s management is solely responsible for determining that it meets the SEC requirements to apply C&DI 200.06 for the vendors and related criteria.
The Company’s management has assessed the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission in paragraph (d) of Item 1122 of Regulation AB.
Based on such assessment, management believes that, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company has complied in all material respects with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB of the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the servicing of the Platform.
Baker Tilly US, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation report with respect to management’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023.
| /s/ Charley Changmin Yoon | |
|
Charley Changmin Yoon Treasurer | |
| March 6, 2024 | |
| Date |
Appendix A:
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2019-A
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2019-B
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2020-A
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2020-B
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2020-C
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-A
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-B
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2022-A
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2022-B
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2022-C
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2023-A
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2023-B
Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2023-C
Exhibit 33.2
MANAGEMENT’S ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE
Management of the Agency and Trust division of Citibank, N.A. (or “Company”) is responsible for assessing compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Management has determined that the servicing criteria in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB are applicable in regard to the servicing platform as of and for the period as follows:
Platform: Publicly-issued (i.e., transaction-level reporting initially required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and certain privately issued (i.e., for which transaction-level reporting is required pursuant to contractual obligation) automobile loan or lease-backed securities, equipment loan-backed securities and student loan-backed securities issued on or after January 1, 2006, as listed in Appendix A for which the Company provides trustee and paying agent services (the “Platform”).
Applicable Servicing Criteria: All servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d), to the extent required by Item 1122(d) servicing criteria in regards to the activities performed by the Company with respect to the Platform, except for the following servicing criteria: 1122(d)(1)(i)-1122(d)(1)(v), 1122(d)(2)(iii), 1122(d)(2)(vi)-1122(d)(2)(vii), 1122(d)(3)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(i)-1122(d)(4)(xv), which management has determined are not applicable to the activities the Company performs with respect to the Platform (the “Applicable Servicing Criteria”). With respect to the Platform, Applicable Servicing Criterion 1122(d)(3)(ii) is applicable only as it relates to remittances.
Period: Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 (the “Period”).
With respect to the Platform as of and for the Period, the Company’s management provides the following assertion of compliance with respect to the Applicable Servicing Criteria:
| · | The Company’s management is responsible for assessing the Company’s compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria. |
| · | The Company’s management has assessed compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria. In making this assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission in paragraph (d) of Item 1122 of Regulation AB. |
| · | Based on such assessment, the Company has complied, in all material respects, with the Applicable Servicing Criteria. |
KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation report with respect to management’s assertion of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of and for the Period.
| CITIBANK, N.A. | ||
| By: | /S/ James Maitland | |
| Its: | Managing Director | |
Dated: February 29, 2024
Appendix A
Asset backed Transactions and Securities Constituting the Platform
DEAL NAME
AMCAR 2018-2
AMCAR 2018-3
Drive Auto Receivables Trust 2019-2
HART 2019A
AMCAR 2019-3
HART 2019-B
AMCAR 2020-1
HART 2020-A
HART 2020-B
HART 2020-C
VALT20A
EART 2021-1
HDMOT 2021-A
AMCAR 2021-1
HART 2021-A
SDART 2021-2
AMCAR 2021-2
SDART 2021-3
HART 2021-B
HDMOT 2021-B
EART 2021-3
SDART 2021-4
EART 2021-4
HART 2021-C
GMCAR 2022-1
EART 2022-1
SDART 2022-1
HART 2022-A
SDART 2022-2
EART 2022-2
HDMOT 2022-A
SDART 2022-3
VALT 2022-A
EART 2022-3
AMCAR 2022-2
GMCAR 2022-3
HART 2022-B
SDART 2022-4
EART 2022-4
SDART 2022-5
SDART 2022-6
EART 2022-5
HART 2022-C
SDRT2207
EART 2022-6 Auto Receivable
GMCAR 2023-1
SDART 2023-1
HDMOT 2023-A
EXETER AUTO RECEIVABLE 2023-1
AMCAR 2023-1
HART 2023-A
EART 2023-2 Auto Receivable
EXETER AUTO RECEIVABLE 2023-3
GMCAR 2023-3
HART 2023-B
SDART 2023-3
EART 2023-4 Auto Receivable
VALT2023A
HDMOT 2023-B
SDART 2023-5
HART 2023-C
TAOT 2023-D
EXETER AUTO RECEIVABLE 2023-5
VALET 2023-2
Exhibit 34.1
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors
Hyundai Capital America
We have examined management’s assertion, included in the accompanying Management’s Assessment on Compliance with SEC Regulation AB Criteria (Management’s Assessment), that Hyundai Capital America (the Company) complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Regulation AB (the Servicing Criteria) for all publicly issued asset-back securities transactions backed by automobile retail installment sale contracts for which the Company acted as servicer and that were issued on or after January 1, 2006 (the Platform) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023, except for servicing criteria 1122(d)(1)(iii)-(iv), 1122(d)(2)(iv), 1122(d)(3)(iii)-(iv), 1122(d)(4)(ix)-(xiii), and 1122(d)(4)(xv), which the Company has determined are not applicable to the servicing activities it performs with respect to the Platform. With respect to applicable servicing criterion 1122(d)(2)(iii), the Company has determined that there were no activities performed during the year ended December 31, 2023 with the respect to the Platform, because there were no occurrences of events that would require the Company to perform such activities. Appendix A to Management’s Assessment identifies the individual asset-backed transactions and securities defined by management as constituting the Platform. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assertion about the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Those standards require that we plan and perform the examination to obtain reasonable assurance about whether management’s assertion about compliance with the Servicing Criteria is fairly stated, in all material respects, and accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing of selected asset-backed transactions and securities that comprise the Platform, testing of selected servicing activities related to the Platform, and determining whether the Company processed those selected transactions and performed those selected activities in compliance with the Servicing Criteria. Our procedures were limited to the selected transactions and servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report. Our procedures were not designed to detect noncompliance arising from errors that may have occurred prior to or subsequent to our tests that may have affected the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report for the selected transactions or any other transactions. We believe that our examination provides, and that the evidence we obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide, a reasonable basis for our opinion.
As described in the accompanying Management’s Assessment, for servicing criteria 1122(d)(2)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(iv), the Company has engaged various vendors to perform the activities required by these servicing criteria. The Company has determined that none of these vendors are considered a “servicer” as defined in Item 1101(j) of Regulation AB, and the Company has elected to take responsibility for assessing compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to each vendor as permitted by the SEC’s Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (C&DI) 200.06, Vendors Engaged by Servicers (C&DI 200.06). As permitted by C&DI 200.06, the Company has asserted that it has policies and procedures in place designed to provide reasonable assurance that the vendors’ activities comply in all material respects with the servicing criteria applicable to each vendor. The Company is solely responsible for determining that it meets the SEC requirements to apply C&DI 200.06 for the vendors and related servicing criteria as described in its assertion, and we performed no procedures with respect to the Company’s eligibility to apply C&DI 200.06.
Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria.
We are required to be independent and to meet our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with relevant ethical requirements relating to the examination engagement.
In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned Servicing Criteria, including servicing criteria 1122(d)(2)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(iv) for which compliance is determined based on C&DI 200.06 as described above, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023 for the Platform is fairly stated, in all material respects.
| /s/ BAKER TILLY US, LLP | |
| Irvine, California | |
| March 6, 2024 |
Exhibit 34.2
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors
Citibank, N.A.:
We have examined management’s assertion, included in the accompanying Management’s Assertion of Compliance, that the Agency and Trust division of Citibank, N.A. (the “Company”) complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB (the “Servicing Criteria”) for publicly-issued (i.e., transaction-level reporting initially required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and certain privately-issued (i.e., for which transaction-level reporting is required pursuant to contractual obligation) automobile loan or lease-backed securities, equipment loan-backed securities and student loan-backed securities issued on or after January 1, 2006, as listed in Appendix A of the accompanying Management’s Assertion of Compliance, for which the Company provides trustee and paying agent services (the “Platform”), except for servicing criteria 1122(d)(1)(i)-1122(d)(1)(v), 1122(d)(2)(iii), 1122(d)(2)(vi)-1122(d)(2)(vii), 1122(d)(3)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(i)-1122(d)(4)(xv), which the Company has determined are not applicable to the activities it performs with respect to the Platform, as of and for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023. With respect to the Platform, Servicing Criterion 1122(d)(3)(ii) is applicable only as it relates to remittances. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assertion about the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to obtain reasonable assurance and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing selected asset-backed transactions and securities that comprise the Platform, testing selected servicing activities related to the Platform, and determining whether the Company processed those selected transactions and performed those selected activities in compliance with the Servicing Criteria. Furthermore, our procedures were limited to the selected transactions and servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report. Our procedures were not designed to determine whether errors may have occurred either prior to or subsequent to our tests that may have affected the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report for the selected transactions or any other transactions. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria.
We are required to be independent and to meet our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with relevant ethical requirements relating to the examination engagement.
In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned Servicing Criteria as of and for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 is fairly stated, in all material respects.
| /s/ KPMG LLP |
Chicago, Illinois
February 29, 2024
Exhibit 35.1
ANNUAL SERVICER’S COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated as of November 17, 2021, by and among Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C, Hyundai Capital America, as seller and servicer (the “Servicer”), Hyundai ABS Funding, LLC, as depositor, and Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee and Item 1123 of Regulation AB. The undersigned hereby certifies that:
1) I am a duly authorized officer of the Servicer.
2) A review of the activities of the Servicer from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 (the “Relevant Period”) and of the Servicer’s performance under the Agreement during the Relevant Period has been made under my supervision.
3) Based on such review, the Servicer has, to the best of my knowledge, fulfilled all of its obligations under the Agreement in all material respects throughout the Relevant Period.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have duly executed this Compliance Certificate this 22nd day of March, 2024.
| HYUNDAI CAPITAL AMERICA, as Servicer | ||
| By: | /s/ Charley Changmin Yoon | |
| Name: Charley Changmin Yoon | ||
| Title: Treasurer | ||