Bangkok--30 Jun--Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings-Tokyo/Bangkok/Singapore- 30 June 2008: Fitch Ratings has updated its servicer rating criteria for Thai servicers in a recently published criteria report titled “Thai Servicers Rating Criteria”, covering all types of servicers operating in the country. The report also discusses recent developments in the Thai financial and servicing market. Fitch assigned the first residential mortgage servicer rating for a servicer in Thailand in September 2007, while in Asia, the agency introduced servicer ratings in Japan in 2000. As of today, Fitch has assigned 24 primary, special and master servicer ratings to Japanese servicers, as well as 13 servicer ratings (including trust manager ratings) to Thailand, Australia 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, Tokyo + 81 3 3288 2605; Orawan Karoonkornsakul, Bangkok +662 655 4755; Diane Pendley, New York, + 1212 908 0777. 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.