Interest Rates; Benchmark Notification The interest rate on a Loan denominated in dollars may be derived from an interest rate benchmark that may be discontinued or is, or may in the future become, the subject of regulatory reform. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, Section 2.14(b) provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission, performance or any other matter related to any interest rate used in this Agreement, or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof, including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, the existing interest rate being replaced or have the same volume or liquidity as did any existing interest rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates and/or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of any interest rate used in this Agreement or any alternative, successor or alternative rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain any interest rate used in this Agreement, any component thereof, or rates referenced in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
Benchmark Replacement Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. If the Benchmark Replacement is Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will be payable on a quarterly basis.
Benchmark Replacement Setting Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document:
Benchmarking 6.5.1. Not earlier than [***], Company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to conduct a measurement and comparison benchmarking process to compare [***] to ensure that Company is receiving [***], given the nature, volume and type of Services provided by Amdocs hereunder (taking into account the volume of Services, the skill sets and geographical location of the Personnel and other such factors necessary to ensure a like-for-like comparison to the benchmark comparator group) (the “Benchmarking Process”). Upon Amdocs’ receipt of notice of Company’s intent to exercise its benchmarking right, the Parties shall agree on a pool of suitably qualified, experienced and independent benchmarkers generally in the business of conducting such measurements and comparisons. The pool of benchmarkers shall not include any Person that is an Amdocs Competitor. It is the Parties’ intention that they shall jointly select the benchmarker to carry out the Benchmarking Process. However, in the event that the Parties are unable to agree as to the identification of such benchmarker, after escalation of this matter to Company’s Senior Vice President (IT) and Amdocs’ Vice President, then Company may utilize any Third Party benchmarker from the pool to perform the Benchmarking Process (the “Benchmarker”). The Benchmarker will review its benchmarking methodology with Company and Amdocs and the Parties shall agree to the criteria used for selection of the benchmark comparator group prior to commencement of the Benchmarking Process. Amdocs shall have reasonable * Confidential treatment has been requested. The redacted material has been separately filed with the Commission. opportunities to make submissions to the Benchmarker as to the performance of the Services and the related pricing. Company shall pay the fees and expenses charged by the Benchmarker (which fees will not be contingency-based). Amdocs’ cooperation with the Benchmarker shall be conditioned on the Benchmarker’s compliance with Amdocs’ commercially reasonable confidentiality requirements; provided, that, Amdocs shall not be obligated to disclose Confidential Information related to any of Amdocs’ or its Affiliates’ other clients to the Benchmarker. The Benchmarking Process shall be conducted so as not to unreasonably disrupt Amdocs’ operations under this Agreement (including so as not to lead to any material impact on the Service Levels).
Replacing Future Benchmarks If any Benchmark Transition Event occurs after the date hereof (other than as described above with respect to USD LIBOR), the then-current Benchmark will be replaced with the Benchmark Replacement for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting on the later of (i) as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower or (ii) such other date as may be determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with then applicable market practice, in each case, without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time (or, in the case of clause (ii) above, such time as may be specified by the Administrative Agent as a deadline to receive objections, but in any case, no less than five (5) Business Days after the date such notice is provided to the Lenders and the Borrower), written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders; provided, however, that in the event that the then-current Benchmark is not a SOFR-based rate, then the Benchmark Replacement shall be determined in accordance with clause (1) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” unless the Administrative Agent has determined in good faith that neither of such alternative rates is available. At any time that the administrator of the then-current Benchmark has permanently or indefinitely ceased to provide such Benchmark or such Benchmark has been announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark pursuant to public statement or publication of information to be no longer representative of the underlying market and economic reality that such Benchmark is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored, the Borrower may revoke any request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Loans to be made, converted or continued that would bear interest by reference to such Benchmark until the Borrower’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark, and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a borrowing of or conversion to Floating Rate Loans. During the period referenced in the foregoing sentence, the component of Alternate Base Rate based upon the Benchmark will not be used in any determination of the Alternate Base Rate.
Description of Administration Services on a Continuous Basis PFPC will perform the following administration services with respect to each Portfolio:
Regulation AB Compliance; Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness The parties hereto acknowledge 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 agree to comply with all reasonable requests made by the Depositor in good faith for delivery of information under these provisions on the basis of evolving interpretations of Regulation AB. In connection with the Trust, each Servicer, the Trustee and each Custodian shall cooperate fully with the Depositor to deliver to the Depositor (including its assignees or designees), any and all statements, reports, certifications, records and any other information available to such party and reasonably necessary in the good faith determination of the Depositor to permit the Depositor to comply with the provisions of Regulation AB, together with such disclosures relating to each Servicer, the Trustee and each Custodian, as applicable, reasonably believed by the Depositor to be necessary in order to effect such compliance.
Additional Reporting Under Regulation AB With respect to any period during which the Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Mortgage Loan Seller shall provide to the Depositor and the Certificate Administrator any information that constitutes “Additional Form 10-D Information” or “Additional Form 10-K Information” but only if and to the extent that the Mortgage Loan Seller (or any originator of the Mortgage Loans sold by the Mortgage Loan Seller to the Depositor, if such originator constitutes an “originator” contemplated by Item 1110(b) of Regulation AB and such information is required to be reported with respect to such originator) is the applicable “Party Responsible” (solely in its capacity as a sponsor or originator (or as successor in interest to any predecessor originator), within the meaning of Regulation AB, of any Mortgage Loans) under the terms of Schedule V or Schedule VI to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (it being acknowledged that the Mortgage Loan Seller (solely as in its capacity as a sponsor or originator (or as successor in interest to any predecessor originator), within the meaning of Regulation AB, of any Mortgage Loans) does not constitute the “Party Responsible” for any “Form 8-K Information” set forth on Schedule VII of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement). In each case, such delivery shall be made in a form readily convertible to an XXXXX compatible form, or in such other form as otherwise agreed by the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator and the Mortgage Loan Seller. In each case, such delivery shall be made not later than 5 calendar days after the related Distribution Date (in the case of any such “Additional Form 10-D Information”), and no later than March 7th of each year subsequent to the fiscal year that the Trust is subject to the Exchange Act reporting requirements (in the case of any such “Additional Form 10-K Information”). In no event shall the Mortgage Loan Seller be required to provide any information that is not required to be reported on Form 10-D or Form 10-K, as the case may be, under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Report on Assessment of Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria On or before March 15th of each calendar year, beginning with March 15, 2008, the Servicer shall deliver to the Seller, the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the NIMS Insurer and the Depositor a report regarding its assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria identified in Exhibit H attached hereto, as of and for the fiscal year of the Trust (which, unless otherwise identified to the Servicer in writing, shall be the calendar year) for the year prior to the year of delivery of the report, with respect to asset-backed security transactions taken as a whole that are backed by the same asset type backing such asset-backed securities. Each such report shall include (a) a statement of the party’s responsibility for assessing compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to such party, (b) a statement that such party used the criteria identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB (§ 229.1122(d)) to assess compliance with the applicable servicing criteria, (c) disclosure of any material instance of noncompliance identified by such party, and (d) a statement that a registered public accounting firm has issued an attestation report on such party’s assessment of compliance with the applicable servicing criteria, which report shall be delivered by the Servicer as provided in Section 5.02.
