DBRS Morningstar Discontinues and Withdraws Provisional Ratings on MFA 2020-NQM1 Trust
RMBSDBRS, Inc. (DBRS Morningstar) discontinued and withdrew its provisional ratings on the Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2020-NQM1 (the Certificates) that were to be issued by MFA 2020-NQM1 Trust (the Issuer). MFA Financial, Inc. requested to withdraw the provisional ratings as this transaction is not expected to close in the immediate future.
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The principal methodology is RMBS Insight 1.3: U.S. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Model and Rating Methodology (April 1, 2020), which can be found on dbrsmorningstar.com under Methodologies & Criteria.
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