Fitch Downgrades $5.5M & Affirms $126MM from 1 RASC Subprime Transaction.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 has taken the following rating actions on 1 Residential Asset Securities Corporation (RASC RASC Royal Astronomical Society of Canada RASC Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing RASC Royal Army Service Corps (British) RASC Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth (UK) ) mortgage pass-through certificates. Affirmations total $126 million and downgrades total $5.5 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: RASC 2005-KS2 Total Groups 1 & 2 --$34.1 million class A affirmed at 'AAA' (BL: 85.72, LCR: 6.43); --$37.1 million class M-1 affirmed at 'AA+' (BL: 55.10, LCR: 4.14); --$28.8 million class M-2 affirmed at 'A+' (BL: 23.15, LCR: 1.74); --$8.2 million class M-3 affirmed at 'A' (BL: 20.58, LCR: 1.54); --$8.8 million class M-4 affirmed at 'BBB+' (BL: 17.82, LCR: 1.34); --$5.2 million class M-5 affirmed at 'BBB' (BL: 16.12, LCR: 1.21); --$4.4 million class M-6 affirmed at 'BBB-' (BL: 14.64, LCR: 1.10); --$5.5 million class B downgraded to 'BB' from 'BB+' (BL: 13.24, LCR: 0.99). Deal Summary --Originators: 100% GMAC GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corporation GMAC Graduate Management Admission Council GMAC Give Me A Call GMAC Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee GMAC Genetic Modification Advisory Committee (Singapore) GMAC Give Me A Chance RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. ; --60+ day Delinquency: 24.67% --Realized Losses to date (% of Original Balance): 1.18%; --Expected Remaining Losses (% of Current Balance): 13.32%; --Cumulative Expected Losses (% of Original Balance): 4.54%. The rating actions are based on changes that Fitch has made to its subprime loss forecasting assumptions. 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: --'Downgrade Criteria for Recent Vintage U.S. Subprime RMBS' (Aug. 8, 2007); --'U.S. Subprime RMBS/HEL Upgrade/Downgrade Criteria' (June 12 ,2007). All of Fitch's ratings criteria for US subprime RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities 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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