EXHIBIT 10.3
Class A-3 Rate Swap Transaction
CIT Equipment Collateral 2003-EF1, (the
"Trust") governed by the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of
August 1, 2003, between NCT Funding
Company, L.L.C. and M&T Trust Company
of Delaware, as owner trustee (in that
capacity, and any successor in that capacity,
the "Owner Trustee")
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The purpose of this letter agreement (this "Confirmation") is
to confirm the terms and conditions of the transaction entered into between us
on the Trade Date specified below (the "Transaction"). This letter agreement
constitutes a "Confirmation" as referred to in the Master Agreement specified
below.
The definitions and provisions contained in the 2000 ISDA
Definitions and the Annex to the 2000 ISDA Definitions (June 2000 version)
(each, as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc.) are incorporated into this Confirmation (referred to herein as the "2000
ISDA Definitions" or the "ISDA Definitions"). For these purposes, all references
in those Definitions to a "Swap Transaction" shall be deemed to apply to the
Transaction referred to herein. In the event of any inconsistency between the
ISDA Definitions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern. Each
party represents and warrants to the other that (i) it is duly authorized to
enter into the Transaction and to perform its obligations hereunder and (ii) the
person executing and delivering this Confirmation on behalf of the party is duly
authorized to execute and deliver it. Fixed Amounts and Floating Amounts for
each applicable Payment Date hereunder will be calculated in accordance with the
ISDA Definitions, and if any Fixed Amount and Floating Amount are due for the
same Payment Date hereunder, then those amounts shall not be payable and instead
the Fixed Rate Payer shall pay the positive difference, if any, between the
Fixed Amount and the Floating Amount, and the Floating Rate Payer shall pay the
positive difference, if any, between the Floating Amount and the Fixed Amount.
1. This Confirmation supplements, forms part of, and is
subject to, the Master Agreement dated as of September 17, 2003, as amended and
supplemented from time to time (the "Agreement"), between the Trust and Wachovia
Bank, National Association ("Wachovia"). All provisions contained in the
Agreement govern this Confirmation except as expressly modified below.
2. The terms of the particular Transaction to which this
Confirmation relates are as follows:
Reference No. 276553
Currency for Payments: U.S. Dollars
Notional Amount: For each Calculation Period, the aggregate outstanding principal
balance (the "Aggregate Principal Notes Balance") of the CIT
Equipment Collateral 2003-EF1 Class A-3 Notes (the "Trust
Securities") used as the basis for calculating regularly scheduled
Class A-3 Monthly Interest Distributable Amounts thereunder for the
interest period thereunder scheduled to begin and end on the first
and last days, respectively, of that Calculation Period, as such
amount is identified (subject to part 5b and 5d hereof) to Wachovia
by the entity acting at the relevant time as the servicer under the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Servicer"), at least two
Business Days prior to each Payment Date. The Notional Amount for
the initial Calculation Period is U.S.$287,253,376.00.
Trade Date: September 17, 2003.
Effective Date: September 25, 2003.
Termination Date: The earlier of the date on which the Notional Amount is reduced to
zero, and the Class A-3 Maturity Date, subject to the Following
Business Day Convention.
Fixed Amounts:
Fixed Rate Payer: The Trust.
Fixed Rate: 2.21750% per annum.
Day Count Fraction: 30/360
Period End Dates: The 20th day of each month in each year prior to and including the
Termination Date, commencing on October 20, 2003. No adjustment.
Fixed Rate Payer
Payment Dates: The 20th day of each month, commencing on October 20, 2003, through
and including the Termination Date, subject to the Following Business
Day Convention.
Floating Amounts: For each Floating Rate Payer Payment Date, an amount equal to the
Class A-3 Monthly Interest Distributable Amount scheduled under the
Trust Securities to be due thereunder (as determined by the Servicer
under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) for the interest period
thereunder scheduled to correspond to the applicable Calculation
Period, as such amount is identified (subject to
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part 5b and 5d hereof) to Wachovia by the Servicer, at least
two Business Days prior to each Payment Date.
Floating Rate Payer: Wachovia.
Floating Rate Day
Count Fraction: Actual/360
Floating Rate Payer
Payment Dates: The 20th day of each month in
each year prior to and including the
Termination Date, commencing on
October 20, 2003, subject to the
Following Business Day Convention.
Business Days: New York.
Business Day Convention: Following.
Calculation Agent: Xxxxxxxx, except as otherwise provided in the Agreement.
3. Account Details
Account for Payments to the Trust:
CIT 2003-EF1 Collection Account
Wire Instructions:
The Bank of New York
New York, NY
ABA #000-000-000
GLA#111-565
For further credit TAS#269410
Attn: Xxxx Xxxxx (000) 000-0000
Account for Payments to Wachovia:
CIB Group
ABA #000000000
Account #04659360006116
Reference #: Derivatives Desk (Trade No. 276553)
4. Offices
The Office of Wachovia for the Transaction is Charlotte, North
Carolina. The Office of the Trust for the Transaction is its office at the
address specified for notices to it in the Schedule to the Agreement. The
address for notices under this Confirmation for Wachovia,
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including delivery of the Servicer Report, is as the address set forth in the
Schedule to the Agreement.
5. Other Terms
a. Each party has entered in the Transaction solely
in reliance on it own judgment. Neither party has any fiduciary obligation to
the other party relating to the Transaction. In addition, neither party has held
itself out as advising, or has held out any of its employees or agents as having
the authority to advise, the other party as to whether or not the other party
should enter into the Transaction, any subsequent actions relating to the
Transaction or any other matters relating to the Transaction. Neither party
shall have any responsibility or liability whatsoever in respect of any advice
of this nature given, or views expressed, by it or any such person to the other
party relating to the Transaction, whether or not such advice is given or such
views are expressed at the request of the other party.
b. The Pooling and Servicing Agreement sets forth the
agreement of CIT Financial USA, Inc., as servicer, with respect to its duties to
communicate to the Trust and Wachovia information relating to the interest
scheduled to be paid by the Trust from time to time under the Trust Securities.
Neither party to the Transaction will have any responsibility to the other in
connection with any failure by the servicer to perform any of those duties or
any delay by it in doing so. Nothing in this provision shall affect the rights
of the parties hereto against the servicer for the failure by it to perform its
obligations under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement as set forth herein and
nothing herein shall affect the obligations of the Trust under Part 5(o) of the
Schedule.
c. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined
herein or in the Agreement have the meaning given to them in the Transaction
Documents.
d. The parties to this Transaction shall be entitled
to assume that all information with respect to the Class A-3 Swap Agreement
received from the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement is accurate
and that it is reasonable to rely on that information. Neither party shall be
liable for (i) any failure by the Servicer to deliver any information necessary
to make calculations required pursuant to the Agreement or (ii) any errors that
arise as a result of either party's reliance on information delivered by the
Servicer in the absence of actual knowledge that such information is materially
incorrect. The payment of an improper amount, if calculated based on any
incorrect information, shall not be an Event of Default under this Agreement.
THE AGREEMENT AND THIS CONFIRMATION REPRESENT THE FINAL
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR
OR CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITTEN OR ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES OR SUBSEQUENT
ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN
THE PARTIES.
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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the
terms of our agreement by executing the copy of this Confirmation enclosed for
that purpose and returning it to us or by sending to us a letter or telex
substantially similar to this letter, which letter or telex sets forth the
material terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates and
indicates agreement to those terms.
Yours sincerely,
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Xxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
Confirmed as of the date
first above written:
CIT EQUIPMENT COLLATERAL 2003-EF1
By: M&T TRUST COMPANY OF
DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Trust
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
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