Press Release

DBRS Takes Action On Potential Interest Rate Swap Termination Payment for Swap Agreement Between The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (Swap Counterparty) and RMBS Trust.

RMBS
January 22, 2013

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS) has today taken the following rating action to the ultimate payment of any potential interest rate swap (IRS) termination amount which may be owed by the RMBS trust to The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in the event of a failure to pay default where the trust is the defaulting party.

  • Interest rate swap between Supplemental Interest Trust, Nationstar Home Equity Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-B and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc confirmed at ‘AA’ (sf).

The rating does not address a) the likelihood that a swap termination event occurs on or before the swap termination date, (b) the payment of any swap termination payments owed by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc to the trusts and (c) termination payments owed by the trusts to The Royal Bank of Scotland plc if The Royal Bank of Scotland plc is the defaulting party.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The applicable methodology is RMBS Insight: U.S. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Loss Model and Rating Methodology, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

This rating is endorsed by DBRS Ratings Limited for use in the European Union.

Ratings

  • US = Lead Analyst based in USA
  • CA = Lead Analyst based in Canada
  • EU = Lead Analyst based in EU
  • UK = Lead Analyst based in UK
  • E = EU endorsed
  • U = UK endorsed
  • Unsolicited Participating With Access
  • Unsolicited Participating Without Access
  • Unsolicited Non-participating

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