Fitch SMARTView: Two U.S. ABS Credit Card Deals Placed Under Analysis

NEW YORK, Apr 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- -- Following its monthly surveillance review, Fitch Ratings has designated two trusts which will remain under analysis and designates its remaining 647 $323 billion U.S. ABS credit card transactions with an April 4, 2008 SMARTView date, indicating that no immediate action is necessary. The transactions which were placed under analysis as a result of the portfolio review which occurred on April 1, 2008. They will be analyzed over the next month.

To review a list of deals Under Analysis use the following link (accessible to all users of the Fitch web site): www.fitchratings.com/smartview

SMARTView, a recent addition to Fitch's Structured Finance Surveillance, Metrics, Analytics, Research, and Tools (SMART) products, monitors collateral performance in structured finance bonds providing investors greater insight to Fitch's internal analytic screening process and furthers transparency by publicly identifying the deals that Fitch has identified as requiring an in depth review.

As Fitch receives monthly information on structured finance transactions from trustees and servicers, Fitch analysts run the data through various internal algorithms that identify classes of a transaction as possible candidates for upgrade or downgrade. Fitch's analysts scrutinize the output to decide which deals need a formal review, which are noted as 'Under Analysis', and those deals which can be given a SMARTView date.

SMARTView is available on the Fitch Ratings web site at www.fitchratings.com along with the report titled 'SMARTView, Fitch U.S. Structured Finance Monthly Public Reviews'.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.

SOURCE: Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings, New York Mary MacNeill, 212-908-0785 Patricia Russo, 212-908-0792 or Media Relations: Sandro Scenga, 212-908-0278

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