Fitch Downgrades 1 Class from 1 AMRESCO NIM 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 the AMRESCO net interest margin (NIM nim 1 tr. & intr.v. nimmed, nim·ming, nims Archaic To steal; pilfer. [Middle English nimen, to take, from Old English niman; see ) transaction listed below: AMRESCO NIM 1999-1: --$20 million class A downgraded to 'C/DR4' from 'CC/DR4'. Underlying Transaction: AMRESCO 1998-1, AMRESCO 1998-2, AMRESCO 1998-3 The rating actions reflect actual pay-down performance of the NIM securities to date compared to initial projections. 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); --'Downgrade Criteria for Recent Vintage U.S. Subprime RMBS' (Aug. 8, 2007) --'U.S. Rating Criteria for Net Interest Margin Securitizations: Updated' (Feb. 6, 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. Fitch's Distressed Recovery (DR) ratings, introduced in April 2006 across all sectors of structured finance, are designed to estimate recoveries on a forward-looking basis while taking into account the time value of money. For more information on Distressed Recovery ratings, see the full report ('Structured Finance Distressed Recovery Ratings'), which 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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