Fitch Ratings Affirms $317B from 57 U.S. ABCP Programs.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 affirmed the ratings on 57 U.S. asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP ABCP Asset-Backed Commercial Paper ABCP Associação Brasileira de Cimento Portland (Brazil) ABCP Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política ABCP American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ABCP Associate Business Continuity Planner ) programs totaling over $317 billion in outstanding debt. The actions follow a review of a number of Fitch rated U.S. multiseller, securities backed, and single seller ABCP conduits. The affirmations are based on a review of the conduits' portfolio compositions and the credit and structural protections afforded investors in these programs. These protections include pool-specific 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 and program-wide credit enhancement, if applicable, as well as committed liquidity support facilities available to fund the payment of maturing ABCP. In its review of the portfolio compositions, Fitch analyzed exposures to subprime and Alt A residential mortgages as well as CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the exposures for each individual conduit. The analysis also included a Vector CP 3.0 analysis of multiseller and securities-backed programs rated by Fitch. The review is ongoing and Fitch expects to release more rating actions and detailed information on the individual programs over the coming weeks. The review didn't include an analysis of structured investment vehicles (SIVs), Market Value, or collateralized debt obligation Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) A general inclusive term which covers Collateralized Bond Obligations, Collateralized Loan Obligations, and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, (CDO) commercial paper programs, which are being reviewed and will be commented on separately. Fitch has affirmed the following U.S. ABCP programs: Multi-seller --Alpine Securitization Securitization The process of creating a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing them to investors. Notes: Mortgage backed securities are a perfect example of securitization. May also be spelled as "securitisation. Corp. at 'F1+'; --APRECO, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control at 'F1+'; --Aspen Funding Corp at 'F1+'; --Asset One Securitization, LLC at 'F1'; --Atlantic Asset Securitization LLC at 'F1'; --Autobahn Funding Co. LLC at 'F1'; --Bavaria TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor Corporation at 'F1'; --Belmont Funding, LLC at 'F1'; --Cedar Springs Capital Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Concord Minutemen minutemen, in the American Revolution, colonial militiamen or armed citizens who agreed to turn out for service at a minute's notice. The term minutemen Capital Company at 'F1'; --Crown Point Capital Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Elysian Funding LLC at 'F1'; --Falcon Asset Securitization Corp. at 'F1+'; --Giro Balanced Funding Corp at 'F1'; --Gotham Funding Corp. at 'F1'; --Govco, LLC at 'F1+'; --Jupiter Securitization Corp. at 'F1+'; --Kitty Hawk Funding Corp. at 'F1+'; --La Fayette Asset Securitization LLC at 'F1'; --Lexington Parker Capital Co. at 'F1'; --Liberty Lighthouse Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Mermaid Funding Corp. at 'F2'; --Morrigan TRR Funding LLC at 'F1'; --Neptune Funding Corp. at 'F1'; --Newport Funding Corp at 'F1+'; --Nieuw Amsterdam Receivables Corp. at 'F1'; --Old Line Funding, LLC at 'F1+'; --Panterra Funding , LLC at 'F1'; --Park Avenue Receivables Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Ranger Funding Company LLC at 'F1+'; --Stony Point Capital Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Thunder Bay Funding, LLC at 'F1'; --Valcour Bay Capital Company, LLC at 'F1'; --Victory Receivables Corp. at 'F1'; --Voyager Funding Corporation at 'F1'; --White Point Funding, Inc. at 'F1'; --Working Capital Management Co. L.P. at 'F1'; --Yorktown Capital, LLC at 'F1+'; --Zane Funding , LLC at 'F1'. Securities-Backed --Deer Valley Funding Limited/Deer Valley Funding LLC at 'F1+'; --Giro Funding US Corporation at 'F1+'; --Lockhart Funding LLC at 'F1'; --MAST Funding Trust I at 'F1+'; --New Center Asset Trust (NCAT NCAT National Center for Appropriate Technology (Butte, MT) NCAT National Center for Asphalt Technology NCAT National Center for Academic Transformation NCAT National Center for Advanced Technologies ) at 'F1+/F1'; --Perry Funding Corp. at 'F1+'; --Perry Global Funding Ltd.- Series A & B at 'F1+/F1'; --Perry III Funding Corp. at 'F1+'. Single-seller --BA Credit Card Trust Class A (2001-Emerald) at 'F1+/F1'; --Capital One Multi-Asset Execution Trust Card Series Class A (2004-Nova) at 'F1+'; --Citibank Credit Card Issuance Trust, Dakota Notes Class 2001-A3 at 'F1'; --Cooperative Association of Tractor Dealers, Inc. - Series B at 'F1+'; --Dealers Capital Access Trust at 'F1'; --Dollar Thrifty Funding Corp. at 'F1'; --North Lake Capital Funding at 'F1+'; --Tiger Peg Capital Corp. at 'F1'; --Yum! Capital LLC at 'F1'; --Vehicle Services of America, Ltd. at 'F1+'; 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. 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