Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Rating Criteria for US Residential and Small Balance Commercial Mortgage Servicers http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=731747

Fitch Ratings has published a report on U.S. Residential and Small Balance Commercial Mortgage Servicer Rating Criteria. The report is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.

Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

--Rating Criteria for Structured Finance Servicers (January 2014);

--Criteria for Servicing Continuity Risk in Structured Finance (July 2013);

--Counterparty Criteria for Structured Finance and Covered Bonds (May 2013).

Applicable Criteria and Related Research:

Criteria for Servicing Continuity Risk in Structured Finance

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=712935

Counterparty Criteria for Structured Finance and Covered Bonds

http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=707155

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