Fitch Assigns HSBC Mortgage Corporation (USA) 'RPS2+' Residential Primary Servicer Rating.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. assigns HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) Mortgage Corporation (USA) (HMC HMC Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA) HMC Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, Washington) HMC Hosted Messaging and Collaboration HMC Hoffman Modulation Contrast ) its 'RPS2+' residential primary servicer rating for prime, Alt-A and Home Equity/Home Equity Lines of Credit (HE/HELOC) products. The primary servicer ratings reflect HMC's experienced management team, solid internal controls and integrated technology. In addition, the ratings also incorporate the strong financial condition of HMC's parent, HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBC), whose Issuer Default Rating (IDR IDR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Indonesian Rupiah. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) is 'AA' (Positive Outlook) by Fitch. HSBC is a leading financial services organization providing a full range of financial service products to personal, corporate, government and institutional clients. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions in the 1980's and 1990's, HSBC has grown its mortgage servicing franchise to become a key participant in the US mortgage market. Headquartered in Depew, NY, HMC is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of HSBC Bank USA HSBC Bank USA, N.A., the United States subsidiary of the HSBC Holdings plc, is a bank with its head office in New York City. History The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation acquired a 51% shareholding in Marine Midland Bank of New York State, headquartered in N.A., which is a subsidiary of HSBC, and provides full service mortgage and consumer loan servicing for its parent. The company also has offshore operations in Bangalore, India. HMC sources its portfolio growth by leveraging opportunities with HSBC Bank USA's retail and consumer channels. As of June 30, 2006, HMC serviced more than 427,000 loans totaling $66.3 billion. The company's portfolio consists of approximately $52.2 billion prime loans, $6.9 billion Alt-A loans, and $1.3 billion HE/HELOC loans. HMC's senior management has extensive experience, averaging over 20 years of industry experience and 16 years with the company. HMC's current strategic initiatives include investments in technologies to improve efficiencies and productivity, leveraging the HSBC brand recognition and global resource opportunities and developing expanded product offerings such as home equity lines of credit and private label servicing. Fitch's review of HMC's servicing platform confirmed that HSBC has an efficient and capable servicing platform with the capacity, systems and staff necessary to support its current portfolio and forecasted growth. However, Fitch will continue to monitor HMC's efforts to maintain an adequate control environment as the company pursues its growth initiatives. Fitch rates residential mortgage primary, master, and special servicers on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest rating. Within some of these rating levels, Fitch further differentiates ratings by plus (+) and minus (-) as well as the flat rating. For more information on Fitch's residential servicer rating program, see Fitch's report 'Residential Mortgage Servicer Ratings,' dated November 29, 2006, which is available on the Fitch 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. 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