Wednesday, July 11, 2007

More S&P Woes

FBR Securitization Trust has been listed among the issuers who have had their credit ratings placed on CreditWatch in the following article:

S&P Warns on Subprime-Backed Issues

On July 10, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its credit ratings on 612 classes of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) backed by U.S. subprime collateral on CreditWatch with negative implications. The affected classes total approximately $12.078 billion in rated securities, which represents 2.13% of the $565.3 billion in U.S. RMBS rated by Standard & Poor's between the fourth quarter of 2005 and the fourth quarter of 2006. A list of the issuers of the RMBS securities in question appears at the end of this article.

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