Moodys Critical of AAA Rating from Other Firms On Commercial MBS Deal as Market Heats Up
January 10, 2014
A commercial MBS issued in late December that received AAA ratings from Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poors wouldnt have been rated higher than A1 by Moodys Investors Service. Moodys said the $375 million RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP Trust lacked structural support to obtain the highest ratings. The deal was a single-asset transaction without subordinate classes to absorb expenses that the trust cant pass along to the borrower. In cases where a subordinate class is not present to protect highly rated senior investors, some other feature, such as a reserve fund, has been employed to mitigate the risk, according to Daniel Rubock, a senior vice president at Moodys. The GSP Trust lacks any such structural mitigant. Fitch said...