Fitch Adds Specialty Deals to RMBS Tracker

Fitch Ratings has announced the addition of transactions involving specialty products to its RMBS Deal Tracker, a Web-based product that identifies original collateral attributes for Fitch-rated residential mortgage-backed securities and mortgage-related asset-backed securities.The specialty-product version of the downloadable Excel-based spreadsheet will consist initially of scratch-and-dent and mixed-asset pools, but more specialty asset types will be added as data become available, Fitch said. RMBS Deal Tracker is now available for Fitch-rated subprime, manufactured housing, prime jumbo A, select alternative-A, and specialty deals, the rating agency said. Data points provided by the product include average balance, loan-to-value and FICO distributions, property type, occupancy type, documentation type, geographic distribution, and credit enhancement levels. Fitch can be found online at http://www.fitchratings.com.