Fitch Ratings has recently revised a number of its Global Structured Finance criteria reports and replaced them with more current criteria as follows:
--'Fitch Interest Rate Assumptions for Structured Finance (April 2010)', published April 26, 2010, replaces the report 'Criteria for Interest Rate Stresses in Structured Finance Transactions (Global SF), published Feb. 17, 2010;
--'Global Criteria for Cash Flow Analysis in CDOs-Amended', published Sept. 17, 2010, replaces a previous report with the same title published Nov. 9, 2009;
--'Global Surveillance Criteria for Trust Preferred CDOs', published Aug. 24, 2010, replaces the report 'Rating Criteria for U.S. Bank and Insurance Trust Preferred CDOs', published Feb. 2, 2005;
--'Global Rating Criteria for Corporate CDOs', published July 5, 2010, replaces a previous report with the same title, published April 30, 2008.
In addition, Fitch has withdrawn its 'Global Surveillance Criteria for Corporate CDOs' published Dec. 7, 2009. Fitch has consolidated its corporate CDO surveillance methodology with its rating methodology into a single global report 'Global Rating Criteria for Corporate CDOs' published July 5, 2010.
Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.
Applicable Criteria and Related Research:
Global Criteria for Cash
Flow Analysis in CDOs
http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=557485
Global
Surveillance Criteria for Trust Preferred CDOs
http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=546405
Global
Rating Criteria for Corporate CDOs
http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=537494
Fitch
Interest Rate Assumptions for Structured Finance (April 2010)
http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=517405
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