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Fitch Affirms $446.2MM & Downgrades $66.5MM from 1 ResMae Subprime Deal.


NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings

An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris.
 has taken the following rating actions on ResMae mortgage pass-through certificates Pass-Through Certificates (PTCs) are instruments that evidence the ownership of two or more Equipment Trust Certificates. In other words, Equipment Trust Certificates may be bundled into a pass-through structure as a means of diversifying the asset pool and/or increasing the size . Affirmations total $446.2 million and downgrades total $66.5 million. Break Loss percentages (BL) and Loss Coverage Ratios (LCR See least cost routing. ) for each class are included with the rating actions as follows:

Series 2006-1

--$358.7 million class A affirmed af·firm  
v. af·firmed, af·firm·ing, af·firms

v.tr.
1. To declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true.

2. To support or uphold the validity of; confirm.

v.intr.
 at 'AAA' (BL: 40.77, LCR: 2.35);

--$29.1 million class M-1 affirmed at 'AA+' (BL: 38.00, LCR: 2.19);

--$26.9 million class M-2 affirmed at 'AA' (BL: 33.67, LCR: 1.94);

--$16.4 million class M-3 affirmed at 'AA-' (BL: 30.70, LCR: 1.77);

--$14.9 million class M-4 affirmed at 'A+' (BL: 27.99, LCR: 1.62);

--$14.2 million class M-5 downgraded to 'A-' from 'A' (BL: 25.41, LCR: 1.47);

--$12.7 million class M-6 downgraded to 'BBB+' from 'A-' (BL: 23.05, LCR: 1.33);

--$11.5 million class M-7 downgraded to 'BBB' from 'BBB+' (BL: 20.83, LCR: 1.20);

--$10.4 million class M-8 downgraded to 'BB+' from 'BBB' (BL: 18.86, LCR: 1.09);

--$8.6 million class M-9 downgraded to 'BB' from 'BBB-' (BL: 17.29, LCR: 1.00);

--$8.9 million class B downgraded to 'BB-' from 'BB+' (BL: 16.06, LCR: 0.93).

Deal Summary

--Originators: (100% ResMAE);

--60+ day Delinquency: 18.15%;

--Realized Losses to date: (% of original balance): 0.54%;

--Expected Remaining Losses (% of Current Balance): 17.32%;

--Cumulative Expected Losses (% of Original Balance): 13.24%.

These transactions were place 'Under Analysis' on July 12, 2007 (for more information, see the July 12, 2007 press release, 'Fitch SMARTView: 170 U.S. Subprime RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol)
RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities
 Transactions Placed Under Analysis', available on the Fitch Ratings web site at www.fitchratings.com). The rating actions are based on changes that Fitch has made to its subprime loss forecasting assumptions adopted after the analysis of the June 2007 remittance Money sent from one individual to another in the form of cash, check, or some other manner.

Financial statements sent by a creditor to a debtor frequently refer to the process of submitting a monthly remittance.


REMITTANCE, comm. law.
 data. The updated assumptions better capture the deteriorating performance of pools from 2006 and late 2005 with regard to continued poor loan performance and home price weakness. Additional details are available in the following research, also available at www.fitchratings.com:

--'U.S. Subprime RMBS/HEL Upgrade/Downgrade Criteria' (June 12, 2007);

--'Fitch Affirms $20B of U.S. Subprime RMBS; Downgrades $2.4B; New Surveillance Criteria for 2005-2006 Vintage Loans' (Aug. 1, 2007).

All of Fitch's ratings criteria for US subprime RMBS available at www.fitchratings.com/subprime. For a list of deals currently under analysis please visit www.fitchratings.com/smartview.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use Terms of Use are rules set up by the owner of an intellectual property or service to govern how they may be legally used.

In many cases, terms of service are used as a contractual agreement between a company and users of a service they provide.
 of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental  are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.
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