EX-34 26 nationalcity_regulus1122kpmg.htm NATIONAL CITY / REGULUS KPMG 1122

Exhibit 34.1.5.1

 

[Letterhead of KPMG LLP]

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

The Board Members

Regulus Group LLC:

 

We have examined management’s assessment for those customers that management has informed us have requested confirmation of compliance, included in the accompanying Report on Assessment of Compliance with Regulation AB Servicing Criteria, that Regulus Group LLC complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d)(2)(i) and 1122 (d)(4)(iv) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB for remittance processing services to those issuers of asset backed securities and servicers of loan and/or receivable portfolios that include pool assets for asset backed securities transactions (the Platform) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2006. Regulus Group LLC has determined that the remainder of the servicing criteria are not applicable to the activities it performs with respect to the Platform as of and for the year ended December 31, 2006. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance with those servicing criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment about the Company’s compliance based on our examination.

 

Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the servicing criteria specified above and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing of less than all of the individual asset-backed transactions and securities that comprise the Platform, testing of less than all of the servicing activities related to the Platform, and determining whether the Company processed those selected transactions and performed those selected activities in compliance with the servicing criteria. Furthermore, our procedures were limited to the selected transactions and servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report. Our procedures were not designed to determine whether errors may have occurred either prior to or subsequent to our tests that may have affected the balances or amounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report for the selected transactions or any other transactions. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the servicing criteria.

 

In our opinion, management’s assessment that the Company complied with the aforementioned servicing criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2006 is fairly stated, in all material respects.

 

/s/_KPMG LLP

 

Philadelphia, PA

February 22, 2007

 

[Letterhead of REGULUS]

 

Report on Assessment of Compliance with Regulation AB Servicing Criteria

 

 

1.

Pursuant to Subpart 229.1100 – Assest Backed Securities, 17 C.F.R. 229.1100-229.1123 (“Regulation AB”), Regulus Group LLC, for itself and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (individually and collectively “Regulus”), is responsible for assessing its compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to the remittance processing services it provides to customers who are issuers or servicers of asset backed securities transactions and who have requested confirmation of Regulus’ compliance in connection with loan and/or receivables portfolios that include pool assets for asset backed securities transactions (the “Platform”). Remittance processing is a service whereby check payments that are remitted by mail to a post office box are collected, processed through a highly automated data capture system, and prepared for deposit to a bank account held by the beneficiary of the payment.

 

 

2.

The servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB were used in Regulus’ assessment of compliance. Regulus has concluded that the servicing criteria set forth Items 1122(d)(2)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(iv) of Regulation AB are applicable to the servicing activities it performs with respect to the Platform (such criteria the “Applicable Servicing Criteria”). Regulus has concluded that the remainder of the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB are inapplicable to the activities it performs with respect to the Platform because Regulus does not participate in the servicing activities referenced by such servicing criteria.

 

 

3.

As of and for the year ending December 31, 2006, Regulus has complied in all material respects with the Applicable Servicing Criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.

 

 

4.

KPMG LLP, a registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation report on Regulus’ assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of and for the year ending December 31, 2006. A copy of that attestation report is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

/s/ Kimberlee Clark

Kimberlee Clark

Chief Financial Officer

 

February 22, 2007