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Fitch Affirms 51 RMBS Classes from 6 ABFC Issues.


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.
 affirms the following Asset Backed Funding Corporation (ABFC ABFC Alaska Boreal Forest Council
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), asset-backed issues:

Series 2004-FF1, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1 and A-2 at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA';

-- Class M-2 at 'A';

-- Class M-3 at 'A-';

-- Class M-4 at 'BBB+';

-- Class M-5 at 'BBB';

-- Class M-6 at 'BBB-'.

Series 2004-OPT1, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1, A-1A and A-2 at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA+';

-- Class M-2 at 'A+';

-- Class M-3 at 'A';

-- Class M-4 at 'A-';

-- Class M-5 at 'BBB+';

-- Class M-6 at 'BBB'.

Series 2004-OPT2, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1, A-1A and A-2 affirmed at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA+';

-- Class M-2 at 'AA-';

-- Class M-3 at 'A+';

-- Class M-4 at 'A';

-- Class M-5 at 'BBB+';

-- Class M-6 at 'BBB';

-- Class B at 'BB+'.

Series 2004-OPT3, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1 and A-4 affirmed at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA';

-- Class M-2 at 'A';

-- Class M-3 at 'A';

-- Class M-4 at 'A-';

-- Class M-5 at 'BBB';

-- Class M-6 at 'BBB-'.

Series 2004-OPT4, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1 and A-2 at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA';

-- Class M-2 at 'A+';

-- Class M-3 at 'A';

-- Class M-4 at 'A-';

-- Class M-5 at 'BBB+';

-- Class M-6 at 'BBB-'.

Series 2004-OPT5, Groups 1 and 2:

-- Classes A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 at 'AAA';

-- Class M-1 at 'AA';

-- Class M-2 at 'A';

-- Class M-3 at 'A-';

-- Class M-4 at 'BBB+'.

The affirmations reflect satisfactory credit enhancement Credit Enhancement

A method whereby a company attempts to improve its debt or credit worthiness.

Notes:
Credit enhancements take many different forms. An example of a credit enhancement would be conversion rights added on to a debt instrument in order to lower the issuing
 (CE) relationships to future loss expectations and affect approximately $1.9 billion of outstanding certificates as of the Feb. 27, 2006 distribution date. Each of the above classes has experienced growth in CE since closing.

The underlying collateral in these transactions consists of fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgage Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)

A mortgage that features predetermined adjustments of the loan interest rate at regular intervals based on an established index. The interest rate is adjusted at each interval to a rate equivalent to the index value plus a predetermined spread, or
 loans secured by first and second liens A Second lien financing is a form of financing secured on a second ranking basis by (more or less) the same security, which secures the first ranking financing. The first lien lenders and the second lien lenders agree that, in the event of a security enforcement or bankruptcy, the  on one- to four-family residential properties. The originator for the 2004-FF1 series was First Franklin Financial Corporation. The originator for all the other transactions was Option One Mortgage Corporation. Bank of America
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Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world.
 N.A. acquired these loans from the originators and sold the loans to ABFC, the depositor.

With the exception of 2004-FF1 and 2004-OPT1, all the other transactions also benefit from varying amounts of lender-paid mortgage insurance. Countrywide coun·try·wide  
adv. & adj.
Throughout a whole country; nationwide: launched a fundraising campaign countrywide; a countrywide search.

Adj. 1.
 Home Loans Servicing LP is the servicer for the loans in series 2004-FF1, and Option One Mortgage Corporation is the servicer for the remaining loans. Both of these are rated 'RPS1' by Fitch for Subprime transactions.

The transactions are seasoned from a range of 16 months (series 2004-OPT5) to 25 months (series 2004-OPT1). The pool factors (i.e., current mortgage loans outstanding as a percentage of initial pool) range from 29.25% (series 2004-OPT1) to 54.19% (series 2004-OPT5). The cumulative losses as a percentage of original collateral balances range from 0.03% (series 2004-OPT5) to 0.21% (series 2004-OPT1).The overcollateralization (OC) is at or near the target OC for all the transactions.

Further information regarding delinquencies, losses and CE is available on the Fitch Ratings web site at 'www.fitchratings.com'.

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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