AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE
Master Mortgage Loan Purchase and
Servicing Agreement
dated as of February 1,
2005
by and between
CITIMORTGAGE, INC.
and
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS REALTY
CORP.
This AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE is made this 28th day
of December, 2005, by and between CitiMortgage, Inc., having an
address at 1000 Technology Drive, MS 55, O’Fallon, Missouri
63368 (the “Seller”) and CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS
REALTY CORP. having an address at 390 Greenwich Street, New York,
New York 10013 (the “Purchaser”), to the Master
Mortgage Loan Purchase and Servicing Agreement, dated as of
February 1, 2005, by and between the Purchaser and the Seller (the
“Agreement”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the
Purchaser and the Seller desire to amend the Agreement, subject to
the terms hereof, to modify the Agreement as specified herein;
and
WHEREAS, the
Purchaser and the Seller each have agreed to execute and deliver
this Amendment Number One on the terms and conditions set forth
herein.
NOW THEREFORE,
for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, and of the mutual covenants herein
contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1.
Amendments
. Effective as of December 28, 2005,
the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Section 1 of the Agreement is hereby amended by
adding the following definitions:
Commission : The United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Depositor : The depositor, as such term is defined in
Regulation AB, with respect to any Securitization
Transaction.
Exchange
Act : The Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Qualified Correspondent : Any Person from which the Seller purchased
Mortgage Loans, provided that the following conditions are
satisfied: (i) such Mortgage Loans were originated pursuant to an
agreement between the Seller and such Person that contemplated that
such Person would underwrite mortgage loans from time to time, for
sale to the Seller, in accordance with underwriting guidelines
designated by the Seller (“Designated Guidelines”) or
guidelines that do not vary materially from such Designated
Guidelines; (ii) such Mortgage Loans were in fact underwritten as
described in clause (i) above and were acquired by the Seller
within 180 days after origination; (iii) either (x) the Designated
Guidelines were, at the time such Mortgage Loans were originated,
used by the Seller in origination of mortgage loans of the same
type as the Mortgage Loans for the Seller’s own account or
(y) the Designated Guidelines were, at the time such Mortgage Loans
were underwritten, designated by the Seller on a consistent basis
for use by lenders in originating mortgage loans to be purchased by
the Seller; and (iv) the Seller employed, at the time such Mortgage
Loans were acquired by the Seller, pre-purchase or post-purchase
quality assurance procedures (which may involve, among other
things, review of a sample of mortgage loans purchased during a
particular time period or through particular channels) designed to
ensure that Persons from which it purchased mortgage loans properly
applied the underwriting criteria designated by the
Seller.
Reconstitution : Any Securitization Transaction, Agency
Transfer or Whole Loan Transfer.
Reconstitution Agreement : The agreement or agreements entered into by
the Seller and the Purchaser and/or certain third parties on the
Reconstitution Date or Dates with respect to any or all of the
Mortgage Loans serviced hereunder, in connection with a Whole Loan
Transfer or a Securitization Transaction as provided in Section
5.06.
Reconstitution Date : The date or dates on which any or all of the
Mortgage Loans serviced under this Agreement shall be removed from
this Agreement and reconstituted as part of a Whole Loan Transfer
or Securitization Transaction pursuant to Section 5.06
hereof.
Regulation AB : Subpart 229.1100 - Asset Backed Securities
(Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such
may be amended from time to time, and subject to such clarification
and interpretation as have been provided by the Commission in the
adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release
No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005)) or by the
staff of the Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or
its staff from time to time.
REO Disposition : The final sale by the Seller of any REO
Property.
Securities Act : The Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
Securitization Transaction
: Any transaction involving either
(1) a sale or other transfer of some or all of the Mortgage Loans
directly or indirectly to an issuing entity in connection with an
issuance of publicly offered or privately placed, rated or unrated
mortgage-backed securities or (2) an issuance of publicly offered
or privately placed, rated or unrated securities, the payments on
which are determined primarily by reference to one or more
portfolios of residential mortgage loans consisting, in whole or in
part, of some or all of the Mortgage Loans.
Seller/Servicer Information
: As defined in Section
17.07(a).
Servicer : As defined in Section 17.03(c).
Servicing Criteria : The “servicing criteria” set forth
in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB, as such may be amended from time
to time.
Static Pool Information : Static pool information as described in Item
1105(a)(1)-(3) and 1105(c) of Regulation AB.
Subcontractor : Any vendor, subcontractor or other Person that
is not responsible for the overall servicing (as
“servicing” is commonly understood by participants in
the mortgage-backed securities market) of Mortgage Loans but
performs one or more discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB with respect to Mortgage Loans under the direction
or authority of the Seller or a Subservicer.
Subservicing Agreement : Each agreement providing for the servicing of
any of the Mortgage Loans by a Subservicer.
Third-Party Originator : Each Person, other than a Qualified
Correspondent, that originated Mortgage Loans acquired by the
Seller.
(b) Section 1 of the Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the definition of “Subservicer” therein with
the following:
Subservicer : Any Person that services Mortgage Loans on
behalf of the Seller or any Subservicer and is responsible for the
performance (whether directly or through Subservicers or
Subcontractors) of a substantial portion of the material servicing
functions required to be performed by the Seller under this
Agreement or any Reconstitution Agreement that are identified in
Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.
(c) The Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the
words “Pass-Through Transfer” each time they appear in
the Agreement with the words “Securitization
Transaction”.
(d) Section 5.06 is hereby amended by replacing the
words “reconstitution agreement with “Reconstitution
Agreement” and the words “reconstitution
agreements” with the words “Reconstitution
Agreements” each time they appear in such Section.
(e) Section 5.06(b)(iv) is hereby amended by adding
the following words immediately after the words “Exhibit
N”:
“or
Exhibit O, as directed by the Purchaser;”
(f) Section 11.03 of the Agreement is hereby amended
by deleting the third sentence of such Section in its entirety and
replacing it with the following:
“Seller's
obligation to make such Monthly Advances as to any Mortgage Loan
will continue through the last Monthly Payment due prior to the
payment in full of the Mortgage Loan, or through the last
Remittance Date prior to the Remittance Date for the distribution
of all other payments or recoveries (including proceeds under any
title, hazard or other insurance policy, or condemnation awards)
with respect to the Mortgage Loan, or through REO Disposition,
provided, however, that such obligation shall cease if (a) there
has been a final disposition of the Mortgage Loan or (b) if Seller,
in its good faith judgment, determines that such advances would not
be recoverable from late payments with respect to such Mortgage
Loan or Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or REO Disposition
Proceeds received in connection with the related Mortgaged
Property.”
(g) The following shall be added as Section 11.04 of
the Agreement:
“Section
11.04 Servicing Released Provisions .
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, any Mortgage
Loan purchased by the Purchaser and not boarded on the
Seller’s servicing system as of the related Closing Date (the
“Subject Mortgage Loans”) shall be serviced by the
Seller in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, provided
that the Seller shall not be obligated to (i) make Monthly Advances
pursuant to Section 10.09(c) and Section 11.03 of this Agreement or
(ii) make payments in respect of compensating interest pursuant to
Section 10.09(i) of this Agreement until the Remittance Date in the
month in which the related Mortgage Loans are boarded on the
Seller’s servicing system, which shall occur no later than
two months following the related Closing Date unless otherwise
mutually agreed to by the Purchaser and the Seller. In the event
that the Mortgage Loans are transferred by the Purchaser in
connection with a Securitization Transaction prior to such date,
the Purchaser shall be responsible for making any Monthly Advances
and compensating interest payments required pursuant to the
transaction documents for such Securitization
Transaction.”
(h) The first paragraph of Section 11.02 of the
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such paragraph in it
entirety and replacing it with the following:
“On or
before the fifth (5 th ) Business Day of each month,
Seller shall provide the Purchaser an electronically transmitted
file containing the data set forth in Exhibit K or, with respect to
the Subject Mortgage Loans, containing the data set forth in
Exhibit Q.”
(i) Section 15.01 of the Agreement is hereby amended
by adding the word “or” immediately after clause (g) of
such Section and adding the following as clause (h):
“(h) the Seller fails to duly perform, within the
required time period, its obligations under Sections 12.04 or
12.05, which failure continues unremedied for a period of ten (10)
days after the date on which written notice of such failure,
requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the
Seller by any party to this Agreement or by any master servicer
responsible for master servicing the Mortgage Loans pursuant to a
Securitization Transaction;“
(j) The following shall be added as Section 17 of
the Agreement:
ARTICLE XVII COMPLIANCE WITH
REGULATION AB
Section 17.01.
Intent of the Parties;
Reasonableness .
The Purchaser and the Seller acknowledge and
agree that the purpose of Article 17 of this Agreement is to
facilitate compliance by the Purchaser and any Depositor with the
provisions of Regulation AB and related rules and regulations of
the Commission. Although Regulation AB is applicable by its terms
only to offerings of asset-backed securities that are registered
under the Securities Act, the Seller acknowledges that investors in
privately offered securities may require that the Purchaser or any
Depositor provide comparable disclosure in unregistered offerings.
References in this Agreement to compliance with Regulation AB
include provision of comparable disclosure in private
offerings.
Neither the Purchaser nor any Depositor shall
exercise its right to request delivery of information or other
performance under these provisions other than in good faith, or for
purposes other than compliance with the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder (or the provision in a private offering of disclosure
comparable to that required under the Securities Act). The Seller
acknowledges that interpretations of the requirements of Regulation
AB may change over time, whether due to interpretive guidance
provided by the Commission or its staff, consensus among
participants in the asset-backed securities markets, advice of
counsel, or otherwise, and agrees to comply with requests made by
the Purchaser or any Depositor in good faith for delivery of
information under these provisions on the basis of evolving
interpretations of Regulation AB. In connection with any
Securitization Transaction, the Seller shall cooperate fully with
the Purchaser to deliver to the Purchaser (including any of its
assignees or designees) and any Depositor, any and all statements,
reports, certifications, records and any other information
necessary in the good faith determination of the Purchaser or any
Depositor to permit the Purchaser or such Depositor to comply with
the provisions of Regulation AB, together with such disclosures
relating to the Seller, any Subservicer, any Third-Party Originator
and the Mortgage Loans, or the servicing of the Mortgage Loans,
reasonably believed by the Purchaser or any Depositor to be
necessary in order to effect such compliance.
The Purchaser (including any of its assignees or
designees) shall cooperate with the Seller by providing timely
notice of requests for information under these provisions and by
reasonably limiting such requests to information required, in the
Purchaser’s reasonable judgment, to comply with Regulation
AB.
Section 17.02.
Additional Representations and
Warranties of the Seller .
(a) The Seller shall be deemed to represent to the
Purchaser and to any Depositor, as of the date on which information
is first provided to the Purchaser or any Depositor under Section
17.03 that, except as disclosed in writing to the Purchaser or such
Depositor prior to such date: (i) the Seller is not aware and has
not received notice that any default, early amortization or other
performance triggering event has occurred as to any other
securitization due to any act or failure to act of the Seller; (ii)
the Seller has not been terminated as servicer in a residential
mortgage loan securitization, either due to a servicing default or
to application of a servicing performance test or trigger; (iii) no
material noncompliance with the applicable servicing criteria with
respect to other securitizations of residential mortgage loans
involving the Seller as servicer has been disclosed or reported by
the Seller; (iv) no material changes to the Seller’s policies
or procedures with respect to the servicing function it will
perform under this Agreement and any Reconstitution Agreement for
mortgage loans of a type similar to the Mortgage Loans have
occurred during the three-year period immediately preceding the
related Securitization Transaction; (v) there are no aspects of the
Seller’s financial condition that could have a material
adverse effect on the performance by the Seller of its servicing
obligations under this Agreement or any Reconstitution Agreement;
(vi) there are no material legal or governmental proceedings
pending (or known to be contemplated) against the Seller, any
Subservicer or any Third-Party Originator; and (vii) there are no
affiliations, relationships or transactions relating to the Seller,
any Subservicer or any Third-Party Originator with respect to any
Securitization Transaction and any party thereto identified by the
related Depositor of a type described in Item 1119 of Regulation
AB.
(b) If so requested by the Purchaser or any
Depositor on any date following the date on which information is
first provided to the Purchaser or any Depositor under Section
17.03, the Seller shall, within five Business Days following such
request, confirm in writing the accuracy of the representations and
warranties set forth in paragraph (a) of this Section or, if any
such representation and warranty is not accurate as of the date of
such request, provide reasonably adequate disclosure of the
pertinent facts, in writing, to the requesting party.
Section 17.03.
Information to Be Provided by the
Seller .
In connection
with any Securitization Transaction the Seller shall (i) within
five Business Days following request by the Purchaser or any
Depositor, provide to the Purchaser and such Depositor (or, as
applicable, cause each Third-Party Originator and each Subservicer
to provide), in writing and in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Purchaser and such Depositor, the information
and materials specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (f) of this
Section, and (ii) as promptly as practicable following notice to or
discovery by the Seller, provide to the Purchaser and any Depositor
(in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Purchaser and such Depositor) the information specified in
paragraph (d) of this Section.
(a) If so requested by the Purchaser or any
Depositor, the Seller shall provide such information regarding (i)
the Seller, as originator of the Mortgage Loans (including as an
acquirer of Mortgage Loans from a Qualified Correspondent), or (ii)
each Third-Party Originator, and (iii) as applicable, each
Subservicer, as is requested for the purpose of compliance with
Items 1103(a)(1), 1105, 1110, 1117 and 1119 of Regulation AB. Such
information shall include, at a minimum:
(A) the originator’s form of
organization;
(B) a description of the originator’s
origination program and how long the originator has been engaged in
originating residential mortgage loans, which description shall
include a discussion of the originator’s experience in
originating mortgage loans of a similar type as the Mortgage Loans;
information regarding the size and composition of the
originator’s origination portfolio; and information that may
be material, in the good faith judgment of the Purchaser or any
Depositor, to an analysis of the performance of the Mortgage Loans,
including the originators’ credit-granting or underwriting
criteria for mortgage loans of similar type(s) as the Mortgage
Loans and such other information as the Purchaser or any Depositor
may reasonably request for the purpose of compliance with Item
1110(b)(2) of Regulation AB;
(C) a description of any material legal or
governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated)
against the Seller, each Third-Party Originator and each
Subservicer; and
(D) a description of any affiliation or
relationship between the Seller, each Third-Party Originator, each
Subservicer and any of the following parties to a Securitization
Transaction, as such parties are identified to the Seller by the
Purchaser or any Depositor in writing in advance of such
Securitization Transaction:
(7) any significant obligor;
(8) any enhancement or support provider;
and
(9) any other material transaction
party.
(b) If so requested by the Purchaser or any
Depositor, the Seller shall provide (or, as applicable, cause each
Third-Party Originator to provide) Static Pool Information with
respect to the mortgage loans (of a similar type as the Mortgage
Loans, as reasonably identified by the Purchaser as provided below)
originated by (i) the Seller, if the Seller is an originator of
Mortgage Loans (including as an acquirer of Mortgage Loans from a
Qualified Correspondent), and/or (ii) each Third-Party Originator.
Such Static Pool Information shall be prepared by the Seller (or
Third-Party Originator) on the basis of its reasonable, good faith
interpretation of the requirements of Item 1105(a)(1)-(3) of
Regulation AB. To the extent that there is reasonably available to
the Seller (or Third-Party Originator) Static Pool Information with
respect to more than one mortgage loan type, the Purchaser or any
Depositor shall be entitled to specify whether some or all of such
information shall be provided pursuant to this paragraph. The
content of such Static Pool Information may be in the form
customarily provided by the Seller, and need not be customized for
the Purchaser or any Depositor. Such Information for each vintage
origination year or prior securitized pool, as applicable, shall be
presented in increments no less frequently than quarterly over the
life of the mortgage loans included in the vintage origination year
or prior securitized pool. The most recent periodic increment must
be as of a date no later than 135 days prior to the date of the
prospectus or other offering document in which the Static Pool
Information is to be included or incorporated by reference. The
Static Pool Information shall be provided in an electronic format
that provides a permanent record of the information provided, such
as a portable document format (pdf) file, or other such electronic
format reasonably required by the Purchaser or the Depositor, as
applicable.
Promptly following notice or discovery of a
material error in Static Pool Information provided pursuant to the
immediately preceding paragraph (including an omission to include
therein information required to be provided pursuant to such
paragraph), the Seller shall provide corrected Static Pool
Information to the Purchaser or any Depositor, as applicable, in
the same format in which Static Pool Information was previously
provided to such party by the Seller.
If so requested by the Purchaser or any
Depositor, the Seller shall provide (or, as applicable, cause each
Third-Party Originator to provide), at the expense of the
requesting party (to the extent of any additional incremental
expense associated with delivery pursuant to this Agreement), such
agreed-upon procedures letters of certified public accountants
reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser or Depositor, as applicable,
pertaining to Static Pool Information relating to prior securitized
pools for securitizations closed on or after January 1, 2006 or, in
the case of Static Pool Information with respect to the
Seller’s or Third-Party Originator’s originations or
purchases, to calendar months commencing January 1, 2006, as the
Purchaser or such Depositor shall reasonably request. Such letters
shall be addressed to and be for the benefit of such parties as the
Purchaser or such Depositor shall designate, which may include, by
way of example, any Sponsor, any Depositor and any broker dealer
acting as underwriter, placement agent or initial purchaser with
respect to a Securitization Transaction. Any such statement or
letter may take the form of a standard, generally applicable
document accompanied by a reliance letter authorizing reliance by
the addressees designated by the Purchaser or such
Depositor.
(c) If so requested by the Purchaser or any
Depositor, the Seller shall provide such information regarding the
Seller, as servicer of the Mortgage Loans, and each Subservicer
(each of the Seller and each Subservicer, for purposes of this
paragraph, a “Servicer”), as is requested for the
purpose of compliance with Item 1108 of Regulation AB. Such
information shall include, at a minimum:
(A) the Servicer’s form of
organization;
(B) a description of how long the Servicer has been
servicing residential mortgage loans; a general discussion of the
Servicer’s experience in servicing assets of any type as well
as a more detailed discussion of the Servicer’s experience
in, and procedures for, the servicing function it will perform
under this Agreement and any Reconstitution Agreements; information
regarding the size, composition and growth of the Servicer’s
portfolio of residential mortgage loans of a type similar to the
Mortgage Loans and information on factors related to the Servicer
that may be material, in the good faith judgment of the Purchaser
or any Depositor, to any analysis of the servicing of the Mortgage
Loans or the related asset-backed securities, as applicable,
including, without limitation:
(1) whether any prior securitizations of mortgage
loans of a type similar to the Mortgage Loans involving the
Servicer have defaulted or experienced an early amortization or
other performance triggering event because of servicing during the
three-year period immediately preceding the related
Securitization