LONDON (Standard&Poor's) May 11, 2009—Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today lowered and placed on CreditWatch negative its credit rating on the series 2007-FF1 class S notes issued by Ludgate Funding PLC. We also placed the class Ma, Mb, Bb, Cb, Da, Db, and E notes on CreditWatch negative (see list below). All other classes of notes in this transaction are unaffected. This is a U.K. residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transaction. At closing, approximately 58% of the pool was buy-to-let loans. Today's rating actions are due to the continuing decline in U.K. house prices and our expectation of higher losses on average for loans on properties that have been repossessed and loans that ultimately default. We anticipate higher loss