London, 07 September 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service has today placed on review for downgrade
all rated notes in three Russian RMBS transactions: Closed Joint
Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB 1, Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage
Agent ITB 2013, and Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB
2014.
Please refer to the end of the Ratings Rationale section for a list of
affected ratings.
RATINGS RATIONALE
The rating action follows Moody's decision to downgrade the deposit
ratings and Counterparty Risk Assessment of Investment Trade Bank to Ca
and Caa3(cr) respectively (http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PR_333424),
following the announcement on 27 August 2015 that the state Deposit Insurance
Agency (DIA) had taken Investment Trade Bank into temporary administration.
In our view, the lack of precedent of a local originator going into
insolvency in a context of rated securitisation in this market creates
potential uncertainties with regards to operational risk in the affected
transactions. In addition, the lack of such precedent in
a legal framework in the Russian securitisation market creates further
uncertainties with regards to true sale and claw-back risks in
these three transactions.
While DeltaCredit Bank (Ba2/NP) is standing-by to perform its responsibilities
as a back-up servicer and a back-up calculation agent,
uncertainties remain with regards to timeliness and transitional impact
of such servicer transfer. DeltaCredit Bank is an established mortgage
lender, but it had not taken over the servicing of a securitized
pool of mortgages from other lenders in the past and financial stress
on Investment Trade Bank could increase the possibility of operational
disruption.
During the transfer period, deterioration of performance is possible
in all three transactions. This is partly mitigated by the high
levels of credit enhancement (63.5% for tranche A in Closed
Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB 1, 32.7% for
tranche A in Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB 2013,
21.8% for tranches A and B in Closed Joint Stock Company
Mortgage Agent ITB 2014), as well as by the availability of reserve
funds which are currently at target level for all three transactions.
Principal Methodology:
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Approach
to Rating RMBS Using the MILAN Framework", published in January
2015. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of this methodology.
The analysis undertaken by Moody's at the initial assignment of ratings
for RMBS securities may focus on aspects that become less relevant or
typically remain unchanged during the surveillance stage. Please
see Moody's Approach to Rating RMBS Using the MILAN Framework for further
information on Moody's analysis at the initial rating assignment and the
on-going surveillance in RMBS.
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
Factors or circumstances that could lead to confirmation of the ratings
include (1) reduction in possibility of operational disruption or legal
risk related to temporary administration of Investment Trade Bank,
(2) performance of the underlying collateral that remains stable or becomes
better than Moody's expected, and (3) improvements in the credit
quality of the transaction counterparties.
Factors or circumstances that could lead to a downgrade of the ratings
include (1) further increase of the operational or legal risk in these
transactions, (2) increase in sovereign risk, (3) performance
of the underlying collateral that is worse than Moody's expects,
(4) deterioration in the notes' available credit enhancement, and
(5) further deterioration in the credit quality of the transaction counterparties.
LIST OF AFFECTED RATINGS
Issuer: Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB 1
....RUB 2399.952M A Notes, Baa3
(sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Downgrade; previously on Nov
27, 2012 Definitive Rating Assigned Baa3 (sf)
Issuer: Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage agent ITB 2013
....RUB 3000.5M A Notes, Baa3
(sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Downgrade; previously on Nov
12, 2013 Definitive Rating Assigned Baa3 (sf)
Issuer: Closed Joint Stock Company Mortgage Agent ITB 2014
....RUB 2300M A Notes, Baa3 (sf) Placed
Under Review for Possible Downgrade; previously on Dec 10,
2014 Definitive Rating Assigned Baa3 (sf)
....RUB 1150M B Notes, Baa3 (sf) Placed
Under Review for Possible Downgrade; previously on Dec 10,
2014 Definitive Rating Assigned Baa3 (sf)
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity
analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity
to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
The analysis relies on an assessment of collateral characteristics to
determine the collateral loss distribution, that is, the function
that correlates to an assumption about the likelihood of occurrence to
each level of possible losses in the collateral. As a second step,
Moody's evaluates each possible collateral loss scenario using a
model that replicates the relevant structural features to derive payments
and therefore the ultimate potential losses for each rated instrument.
The loss a rated instrument incurs in each collateral loss scenario,
weighted by assumptions about the likelihood of events in that scenario
occurring, results in the expected loss of the rated instrument.
Moody's quantitative analysis entails an evaluation of scenarios
that stress factors contributing to sensitivity of ratings and take into
account the likelihood of severe collateral losses or impaired cash flows.
Moody's weights the impact on the rated instruments based on its
assumptions of the likelihood of the events in such scenarios occurring.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series
or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings
are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's
rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular
rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the
support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive
rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt,
in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed
prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would
have affected the rating. For further information please see the
ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this rating action, and
whose ratings may change as a result of this rating action, the
associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit
rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating
review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to
the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com
for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Ruslan Akhmetshin
Associate Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service Ltd.
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 5FA
United Kingdom
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Masako Oshima
Senior Vice President
Structured Finance Group
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Moody's places on review for downgrade four tranches in three Russian RMBS transactions originated by Investment Trade Bank