Bangkok--3 Aug--Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings has released its rating criteria for all types of servicers operating in Thailand in a recently published Criteria Report titled "Thailand Servicers Rating Criteria". Fitch expects to launch its first servicer rating in Thailand this year. This report establishes and describes Fitch's rating criteria for the servicer ratings in this market. The report also discusses the development history and the status quo of Thai financial and servicing market in order to verify Fitch's approach to adjust the criteria being used globally. Fitch introduced servicer ratings to Japan in 2000, the first in the Asia Pacific region. As of today, Fitch has assigned 25 primary, special and master servicer ratings to Japanese servicers and eleven residential servicer ratings to Australian and New Zealand servicers. The full report on "Thai Servicers Rating Criteria" is available on Fitch's global website, 'www.fitchratings.com'. Contacts: Mitsuhiro Ueno, CIA, Tokyo, +81 3 3288 2605/ [email protected]; Orawan Karoonkornsakul, Bangkok, + 66 2 655 4766/ [email protected]; Diane Pendley, New York, +1 212 908 0777/ [email protected]. Media Relations: Shivani Sundralingam, Singapore, Tel: + 65 6336 0095. 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. 101 Finsbury Pavement, London, EC2A 1RS