S&P Global Credit Markets Digest.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003 Standard & Poor's-- ASIA-PACIFIC UPDATE: Here is the current lineup of top articles and research from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services: COMING UP: -- S&P Global Bond Markets' Weakest Links & Monthly Default Rates -- Industry Report Card: Fee-Based U.S. Banks -- Refiners Striving to Meet Looming Low-Sulfur Specifications -- Vectren Corp. Improves Financial Ratios -- Comparing Off-Shore Oilfield Support Companies in the Gulf of Mexico -- Industry Report Card: North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Reinsurers UPCOMING TELECONFERENCES: -- NIMS NIMS National Incident Management System (US Department of Homeland Security) NIMS National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) NIMS Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Quarterly Highlights: Second Quarter U.S. NIMS Issuance Volume Hits Record, Wednesday, August 6, 10 AM -- Credit Profile of Standard & Poor's Rated U.S. Commercial Mortgage Loans, Wednesday, August 6, 11 AM -- Standard & Poor's Predatory Lending Compliance Questionnaire, Thursday, August 7, 2;30 PM All times U.S. Eastern. For complete details see ratingsdirect.com or standardandpoors.com PUBLISHED: SPECIAL REPORT -- Standard & Poor's Response to the SEC RESEARCH REPORTS GLOBAL FIXED INCOME -- S&P: New Japanese Bond Issues Gain Ground Despite Weak Credit Quality -- Global Fallen Angels Maintain Decelerating Pace CORPORATES -- Report Published Covering the Bond Insurers' International Business -- Recovery Prospects for Lenders to Defaulted Drax Cos. Coming to Light FINANCIAL SERVICES The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. -- Industry Report Card: Japan's Securities Companies -- Polarization Sets In for Japan's Regional Banks -- Polish Mortgage Banking Set for Promising Medium-Term Development STRUCTURED FINANCE -- Decision on Trigger Events has Limited Effect on Resona Bank RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities Transactions -- Japanese Structured Finance Market: Master Trust Transactions a Highlight of 2Q -- S&P Quarterly High CLTV CLTV Combined Loan To Value CLTV Collective CLTV ChicagoLand Television CLTV Customer Life Time Value Matrix Shows Mixed Performance for Second-Quarter 2003 -- Standard & Poor's CMBS CMBS See: Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Quarterly Insights: Delinquency Rate Increases -- Standard & Poor's Releases Second-Quarter Trends for RMBS -- NIMS Quarterly Highlights: Second Quarter U.S. NIMS Issuance Volume Hits Record; Performance Continues to Excel PUBLIC FINANCE -- Report Published Covering the Bond Insurers' International Business RATING ACTIONS CORPORATE RATINGS -- AMP Office Trust L-T Rtgs on Watch Neg After Strategic Changes and Financial Announcements -- Mighty River Power Ltd. Outlook Revised To Positive From Stable -- Nextel Partners' $125 Mill Convertible Snr Notes Rated 'CCC+', Credit Rtg Affd -- Edison Mission Energy Ratings Affirmed -- Hillenbrand Industries Hillenbrand Industries, Inc., is a holding company. It has two subsidiaries. Hill-Rom makes hospital beds, furniture, and other equipment. Batesville Casket Company makes caskets and cremation urns. Inc. Assigned Preliminary 'A+' Snr Secd Rtg on $1B Shelf -- CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) I and CCH II Senior Notes Rated 'CCC-'; Outlook Developing -- NiSource and Unit Assigned Ratings for $2.5 Billion Shelf Registration -- Amgen Inc.'s $1 Bil. Mixed Shelf Rated Prelim 'A+'; Outlook Stable FINANCIAL SERVICES RATINGS -- St. George Insurance Pte Ltd PTE LTD Private Limited . Ratings Affirmed at 'A' -- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. Ratings Affirmed; Outlook Stable STRUCTURED FINANCE RATINGS -- Consistent Issuance Continues for PUMA With Latest RMBS Deal -- J.P. Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corp. Series 2003-PM1 Assigned Prelim Ratings -- Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2003-3 Notes Assigned Preliminary Rtgs RESEARCH ANALYSES: CORPORATES -- Shiseido Co. Ltd. STRUCTURED FINANCE -- New Issue: CWABS Inc. (2003-3) -- New Issue: MASTR MASTR Multiple Assets Status Report MASTR Mobiles And Stations Transistorized (General Electric radio manufactured in 1960s and 1970s) Asset 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. Trust 2003-6 Copyright (c) 2003, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services |
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