Fitch Eyes Accredited Servicer Rating

The residential primary servicer rating for subprime product of Accredited Home Lenders Inc. has been placed on Rating Watch Negative by Fitch Ratings.The company's primary servicer rating is RPS3-minus. (Fitch rates residential servicers on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest rating.) Fitch said the actions reflect "the continued pressure on [Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co.'s] liquidity position in the increasingly challenged subprime mortgage market." The rating agency noted that Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co., the parent company of Accredited Home Lenders Inc., has announced a merger agreement with Lone Star Fund V (U.S.) LP.