Common use of Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account Clause in Contracts

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

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Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, as soon as proper allocation can be determined, generally within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) any Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesCharges received; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City Eastern time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested at the written direction of the Servicer in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer Trustee into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to date of deposit into the Certificate Account to, but not including including, the Business Day immediately preceding prior to the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator Trustee to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other periodthe Business Day prior to the related Distribution Date. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator Trustee to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator Trustee shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date date of deposit into the Certificate Account to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2006-5), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (OwnIt Mortgage Loan Trust Series 2006-4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-Ff18), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-Ffa), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-Ff1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance as defined in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. i.e., fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee Master Servicer of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee Master Servicer and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicableServicer, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, it monthly as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Dateherein.

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Samples: Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Alternative Note Asset Trust, Series 2007-A1), Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Alternative Note Asset Trust, Series 2007-F1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Rm3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Rm3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargeinterest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.as

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust Series 2006-Ab3), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust Series 2006-Ab3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event that servicing of any Mortgage Loan has been transferred from the Servicer to the Special Servicer pursuant to Section 3.27(a), each of the Servicer and the Special Servicer will notify the other party with respect to the aggregate number of Mortgage Loans that have been modified, waived or amended after the Cut-off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution DateUpon request, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate AccountAccount (which may consist of one or more sub-accounts). The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedAdministrator. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Series 2005-Ff12), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Series 2005-Ff12)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-Ab1), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account Account, or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2004-Sl1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (v) the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; (xii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.27 hereof; and (xiixiii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Excess Proceeds or Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be -66- held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc), Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-Ff6)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Securities Administrator, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Securities Administrator. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc. Series 2004-FFC)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement the 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, conclusion that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Certificate Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerNIMS Insurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Trustee or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Rm1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's and the Class A Certificate Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of of 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, forbearance and the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.013.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. In connection with any modification pursuant With respect to this Section 3.05(a) Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website www.fema.gov), and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesthat the related Mortgagor or the rexxxxx Xxxxxxged Property is affected thereby the Servicer (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may if it determines that it is reasonable to do so, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all such affected Mortgagors in such counties for a reasonable period of time. In addition, the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may, if it determines that it is reasonable to do so, suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such affected Mortgage Loans for such amounts from the Collection Accounta reasonable period of time. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the CertificateholdersCertificateholders and the Class A Certificate Insurer, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.-70-

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-FFC)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-Rm4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesCharges received; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City Eastern time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer Trustee into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to date of deposit into the Certificate Account to, but not including including, the Business Day immediately preceding prior to the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator Trustee to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other periodthe Business Day prior to the related Distribution Date. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator Trustee to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator Trustee shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date date of deposit into the Certificate Account to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Ownit Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (gh) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator Trustee to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Collection Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator Trustee to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator Trustee shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.its

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-Sl1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In 64 the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. In connection addition, with any modification pursuant respect to this Section 3.05(a) and each MI Mortgage Loan that is subject to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesa modification, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for provide the MI Insurer with written notice of such amounts from modification, which shall include the Collection Accountnature of such modification. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a Prepayment Charge similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or there is a certificated class action in connection with which a refinancing similar type of a Mortgage Loan that prepayment charge is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)being challenged, or (ivv) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment charges; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Auction Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Price payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 2:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or a fund for which such institution serves as custodian or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust Series 2005-Bc3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Amount payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mort Inv Mort Ln Asst BCK Certs Ser 2003-Bc3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, fees including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of the Trustee and shall be remitted to or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Trustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Trustee's own funds immediately as realized. (gh) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the 18th day of the month or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator Trustee to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Collection Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator Trustee to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator Trustee shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the 18th day of the month or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day immediately preceding prior to the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Ownit Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-5)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Each Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the each Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the related Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the related Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the related Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the each Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with Each Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The No Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the related Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the related Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the a Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the a Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the such Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The No Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Each Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the such Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the such Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the such Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the such Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer Servicers into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the ServicerServicers. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer Servicers as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the a Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the TrusteeSecurities Administrator, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Each Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the a Servicer. The Each Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the each Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the applicable Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer Servicers from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by Wilshire pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer Servicers or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer Servicers and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer Servicers and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If a Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, such Servicer shall pay to the Securities Administrator, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Securities Administrator. In the event that the a Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the a Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the each Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account Account, or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the related Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such -60- Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the related Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the related Servicer in the Collection Account out of the such Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-Sl2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (v) the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; (xii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.27 hereof; (xiii) any amounts collected in respect of P&I Arrearages; and (xiixiv) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Excess Proceeds or Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-Sd1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to Principal 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the postponement of strict compliance with conclusion that any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment ChargePenalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. Except as otherwise provided above, the Servicer shall not waive any Prepayment Penalty in connection with a voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property unless there is an acceleration of the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesPenalties; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related feesPrepayment Interest Excesses, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications Loan 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Securities Administrator, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Securities Administrator. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans (or the Subsequent Cut-off Date with respect to Subsequent Mortgage Loans:): (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date or Subsequent Cut-off Date, as applicable; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date or Subsequent Cut-off Date, as applicable and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Ownit Series 2005-2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary may 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications forbearance and the conclusion that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Certificate Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Trustee or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by . A.) from and including the Securities Administrator prior applicable due date, to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or but excluding the day such earlier deadline for investment in funds are paid to the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusiveTrustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-He3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to Mortgage 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the postponement of strict compliance with conclusion that any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.the

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Ahl1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc. Ownit 2005-1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after , 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by . A.) from and including the Securities Administrator prior applicable due date, to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or but excluding the day such earlier deadline for investment in funds are paid to the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusiveTrustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-Wmc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 hereof, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, Mortgage File or the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountServicer's servicing records. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Penalty, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event the Prepayment Penalty payable under the terms of the Mortgage Note is less than the amount of the Prepayment Penalty set forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule or other information provided to the Servicer, the Servicer shall not have any liability or obligation with respect to such difference, and in addition shall not have any liability or obligation to pay the amount of any uncollected Prepayment Penalty if the failure to collect such amount is the direct result of inaccurate or incomplete information on the Mortgage Loan Schedule. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ixvii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xviii) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12Penalties; and (xiiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mort Inv Inc Asst Back Certs Ser TMTS 2003 8he)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, , 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary conclusion that any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.013.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and With respect to the extent there are any unreimbursed AdvancesMortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its webstie xxx.xxxx.xxx), the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection AccountServicer (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (v) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or one of its affiliates, or the NIMs Insurer, if any, pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.013.01 and not subject to the requirement to make Advances pursuant to Section 4.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. With respect to this Section 3.05(a) Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesindividual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website xxx.xxxx.xxx), the related Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the related Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection Accountrelated Servicer (or the related Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing the Mortgage Loans) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof;; -77- (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op LoanProperty), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess Excess) need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, Insurer and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection AccountAccount at the request of such party. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested for the benefit of the Trustee in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by 4:00 p.m. New York City time and the Trustee has not invested such funds on that day, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2007-He3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on Advances 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment ChargePenalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. Except as otherwise provided above, the Servicer shall not waive any Prepayment Penalty in connection with a voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property located in the State of California unless there is an acceleration of the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesPenalties; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related feesPrepayment Interest Excesses, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided belowpenalty interest; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Certificate Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Trustee or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2003 He1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs NIM Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Auction Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Price payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or a fund for which such institution serves as custodian or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargeinterest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications Loan 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust Series 2006-Bc4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and or (zv) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing similar type of a Mortgage Loan that is related prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to a default written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or a reasonably foreseeable default)local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (ivvi) sufficient information there is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargea certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted InvestmentsSubstitution Adjustment Amount; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which that are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were receivedheld uninvested. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicableServicer, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit . Funds in the Certificate Account shall be for remain uninvested and the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer Trustee shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in direct each institution that maintains the Certificate Account to hold the funds in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Datea non-interest bearing account.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-Nca)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Servicer shall adhere to conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess Excess) need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 4:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested for the benefit of the Trustee in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-He4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Auction Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Price payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or a fund for which such institution serves as custodian or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mort Inv Inc Mort Ln as Bk Ce Ser 2003 Bc4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, principal 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess Excess) need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-He3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2006-Rm2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12Penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerNIMS Insurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs NIM Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a Prepayment Charge similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or there is a certificated class action in connection with which a refinancing similar type of a Mortgage Loan that prepayment charge is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)being challenged, or (ivv) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-Bc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangementspenalty interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days (or, in the case of the Optional Termination Amount, one Business Day) of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerTrustee and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee NIMS Insurer and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain (net of any losses losses) realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it no less often than monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain (net of any losses other than those losses that the Servicer has previously covered pursuant to this Section) realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-Opt1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, in 01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Servicer shall adhere to conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2006-Bc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account Account, or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is the collection of such Prepayment Penalty would be considered "predatory" pursuant to written guidance published or issued by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority acting in its official capacity and having jurisdiction over such matters, or (v) this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment ChargePenalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. Except as otherwise provided above, the Servicer shall not waive any Prepayment Penalty in connection with a voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property unless there is an acceleration of the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesPenalties; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related feesPrepayment Interest Excesses, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer Trustee shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer Trustee into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain (net of any losses losses) realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2004-Wmc5)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.013.01 and not subject to the requirement to make Advances pursuant to Section 4.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. With respect to this Section 3.05(a) Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesindividual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website www.fema.gov), the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer ix xx xxxxxx servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection AccountServicer (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xix) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12any amounts collected in respect of P&I Arrearages; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2007-Sd1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, principal 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-He2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 -68- days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Penalty, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In connection with any waiver of a Prepayment Penalty by the Servicer, the Servicer shall account for such waiver in its monthly reports as agreed upon by the Servicer and the Credit Risk Manager. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ixvii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xviii) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12Penalties; and (xiiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the TrusteeSecurities Administrator, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator or the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the aggregate amount received by the Master Servicer from the Interim Servicers Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (iii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iv) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account Account, or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities -71- Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Asst Back Certs Ser 2003-5sl)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) (provided that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding) there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by . A.) from and including the Securities Administrator prior applicable due date, to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or xxx excluding the day such earlier deadline for investment in funds are paid to the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusiveTrustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-He2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.013.01 and not subject to the requirement to make Advances pursuant to Section 4.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. With respect to the extent there are any unreimbursed AdvancesMortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its webstie xxx.xxxx.xxx), the related Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the related Subservicer, if such iServicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection Accountrelated Servicer (or the related Subservicer, if applicable) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargeinterest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2006-Bc5)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement the 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, conclusion that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2007-Ab1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than related 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with conclusion that any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and or (zv) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a Prepayment Charge similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in connection with writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a refinancing certificated class action in which a similar type of a Mortgage Loan that prepayment charge is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)being challenged, or (ivvi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-Ab3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.013.01 and not subject to the requirement to make Advances pursuant to Section 4.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. (a) in amounts as follows: (i) for each modification of the terms of a Mortgage Loan, $500; (ii) for each presale resulting in satisfaction of a Mortgage Loan, $900; and (iii) for each completed repayment plan of a Mortgage Loan, $250, such amount to be withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account pursuant to this Section 3.05(a3.08(a)(xiii) and on or prior to the extent there are any unreimbursed AdvancesServicer Remittance Date immediately following the completion of such forbearance activity. With respect to the Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website xxx.xxxx.xxx), the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection AccountServicer (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (v) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty (20) days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or one of its affiliates, or the NIMs Insurer, if any, pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-H1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than related 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with conclusion that any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Ab2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment ChargePenalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesPenalties; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related feesPrepayment Interest Excesses, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Asset Back Certs Ser 2004-Wmc2)

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Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement Mortgage 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, conclusion that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. (a) in amounts as follows: (i) for each modification of the terms of a Mortgage Loan, $500; (ii) for each presale resulting in satisfaction of a Mortgage Loan, $900; and (iii) for each completed repayment plan of a Mortgage Loan, $250, such amount to be withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account pursuant to this Section 3.05(a3.08(a)(xiii) and on or prior to the extent there are any unreimbursed AdvancesServicer Remittance Date immediately following the completion of such forbearance activity.] With respect to the Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website xxx.xxxx.xxx), the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may, at its sole option, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all Mortgagors in such amounts from counties for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. In addition, the Collection AccountServicer (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such Mortgage Loans for a period of time and, if reasonably prudent, may extend such period as long as it deems necessary. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (v) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty (20) days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or one of its affiliates, or the NIMs Insurer, if any, pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-5)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available the collection of such Prepayment Penalty would be considered "predatory" pursuant to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargewritten guidance published or issued by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority acting in its official capacity and having jurisdiction over such matters. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. Except as otherwise provided above, the Servicer shall not waive any Prepayment Penalty in connection with a voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property unless there is an acceleration of the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the TrusteeCertificate Administrator, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee Certificate Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Certificate Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Certificate Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Certificate Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Certificate Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Certificate Administrator. (e) The Securities Certificate Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Certificate Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Certificate Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Certificate Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Certificate Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Certificate Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Certificate Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed in writing by the Servicer or the Securities Administratoras set forth herein, as applicable, in writingrespectively, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Certificate Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of the Certificate Administrator and shall be remitted to or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. Any and all amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account will be invested in (i) the Servicer 000000000 CUSIP for Delaware Money Market, (ii) to the extent such income and gain that the investment listed in (net of i) is unavailable for any lossesreason, Evergreen Prime Cash Management Money Market Fund-Fund Number 494-Symbol EPRXX or (iii) relates to the period from extent that the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date investments listed in (i) and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent above are unavailable for any reason, such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall amount will be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedheld uninvested. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Certificate Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Certificate Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Wachovia Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-Wmc1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Wmc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that . In 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which that are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were receivedheld uninvested. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the then current prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit . Funds in the Certificate Account shall be for remain uninvested and the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer Trustee shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in direct each institution that maintains the Certificate Account to hold the funds in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Datea non-interest bearing account.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-Ar1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to -85- written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 4:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including -87- the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. In connection addition, with any modification pursuant respect to this Section 3.05(a) and each MI Mortgage Loan that is subject to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesa modification, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for provide the MI Insurer with written notice of such amounts from modification, which shall include the Collection Accountnature of such modification. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.other

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-Bc4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in default 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary conclusion that any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the -91- Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-Mln1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments;; 69 (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which that are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer Servicer A.) from and Master Servicer and deposit by including the Servicer and Master Servicer into applicable due date, to but excluding the Certificate Account shall be exclusiveday such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2006-He1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with compliance 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to forbearance and the conclusion that any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the TrusteeSecurities Administrator, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Securities Administrator, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Securities Administrator. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account Account, or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-Sl1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (v) the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; (xii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.27 hereof; and (xiixiii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Excess Proceeds or Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2005-He1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make shall 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any Advances on forbearance and the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-Ff2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs NIM Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangementsreason 3.01. Notwithstanding The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.28 hereof; (viii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Auction Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Price payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or a fund for which such institution serves as custodian or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2004-Bc4)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargeinterest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2007-Bc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs NIM Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Cutoff Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.other

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors, Inc. Surf Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-Ab1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, , 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the conclusion that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 4:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangementspenalty interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary modify 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications forbearance and the conclusion that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days (or, in the case of the Optional Termination Amount, one Business Day) of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01winning bidder at the Auction. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain (net of any losses losses) realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it no less often than monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain (net of any losses other than those losses that the Servicer has previously covered pursuant to this Section) realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2004-Opt1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.other

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Specialty Underwriting & Residential Finance Trust, Series 2006-Bc3)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2006-Rm5)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the a Prepayment ChargePenalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment ChargesPenalties; (xix) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related feesPrincipal Prepayment Excesses, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction to the Trustee, or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargeinterest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the involuntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) the collection of such prepayment charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of prepayment charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or, only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged, or (vi) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (SURF Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-Bc1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Special Servicer or one of its affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2006-Ff1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which that are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer Trustee into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the then current prime rate (as published by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.) from and including the applicable due date, tx xxx excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-Fm1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and or (zv) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing similar type of a Mortgage Loan that is related prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to a default written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or a reasonably foreseeable default)local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (ivvi) sufficient information there is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargea certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted InvestmentsSubstitution Adjustment Amount; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which Trustee that are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were receivedheld uninvested. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicableServicer, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit . Funds in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income remain uninvested and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month held in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Datea non-interest bearing account.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-NCB)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 hereof, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge Penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Penalty, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge Penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge Penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge Penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12Penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment ChargesPenalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Asst Back Certs Ser 2003-4he)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of after determining the proper cash application after receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) any Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment ChargesCharges received; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City Eastern time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested at the written direction of the Servicer in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer Trustee into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time cause the Trustee to withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (OwnIt Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-7)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than related 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with conclusion that any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Ar1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01 and applicable REMIC requirements, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoingclause (ii) above and its related provisos, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.013.01 and not subject to the requirement to make Advances pursuant to Section 4.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the Mortgage File. With respect to this Section 3.05(a) Mortgage Loans affected by a hurricane or other natural disaster, if the Mortgaged Property is located in public and individual assistance counties, as designated by Federal Emergency Management Agency (as set forth on its website xxx.xxxx.xxx), and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advancesthat the related Mortgagor or the related Mortgaged Property is affected thereby the Servicer (or the Subservicer, if such Servicer is no longer servicing Mortgage Loans), may if it determines that it is reasonable to do so, cease collection activities, charging late fees and credit reporting activity for all such affected Mortgagors in such counties for a reasonable period of time. In addition, the Servicer shall reimburse itself (or the Subservicer, if applicable) may, if it determines that it is reasonable to do so, suspend all foreclosure and bankruptcy activity relating to such affected Mortgage Loans for such amounts from the Collection Accounta reasonable period of time. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) unless the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-servicing related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan)Property, modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty (20) days after each Distribution Date, at the request of the Trustee, the Servicer shall forward make available to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer or the NIMs Insurer or one of their affiliates pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) Trustee which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-A)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, -66- except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (v) the collection of the Prepayment Charge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; (xii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.27 hereof; and (xiixiii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Excess Proceeds or Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-Ffh1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including including, but not limited to, modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), ; provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available the collection of such Prepayment Penalty would be considered "predatory" pursuant to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargewritten guidance published or issued by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority acting in its official capacity and having jurisdiction over such matters. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. Except as otherwise provided above, the Servicer shall not waive any Prepayment Penalty in connection with a voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property unless there is an acceleration of the maturity date of such Mortgage Loan. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunder, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into a clearing account, on a daily basis, and into the Collection Account, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the applicable Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the applicable Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator.Trustee. The Collection Account may contain funds that belong to one or more trust funds created for mortgage pass-through certificates of other series and may contain other funds respecting payments on mortgage loans belonging to the Servicer or serviced by the Servicer on behalf of others; provided that such commingling of funds shall not be permitted at any time during which (i) Fitch's senior long-term unsecured debt rating of the Servicer is below "A" or (ii) Fitch's short-term rating of such Servicer is below F1. Notwithstanding such commingling of funds, the Servicer shall keep records that accurately reflect the funds on deposit in the Collection Account that have been identified by it as being attributable to the amounts deposited to the Collection Account pursuant to this Agreement. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section 3.05. All funds required to be deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. The Collection Account shall be an Eligible Account held by the Servicer. The amount at any time credited to the Collection Account may be invested, in the name of the Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, in Permitted Investments as directed by the Servicer. All Permitted Investments shall mature or be subject to redemption or withdrawal on or before, and shall be held until, (i) the next succeeding Distribution Date if the obligor for such Permitted Investment is the institution acting as Servicer or if such Permitted Investment is a money market mutual fund the advisor of which is the Servicer or an Affiliate thereof or (ii) if such obligor is any other Person, the Business Day preceding such Distribution Date. All income or gain (net of any losses) realized from any such investment of funds on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be retained by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses realized in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall promptly be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized.. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g3.05(f) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 timeHour13Minute01:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed in writing by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writingrespectively, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Wachovia Mortgage Loan Trust Series 2006-Amn1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection Account. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, payment or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (x) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xii) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the NIMs Insurer or the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust Series 2004-Fm1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.013.01 hereof, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of amortization 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that forbearance and the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) if sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Chargeprepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator NIM Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. The Servicer shall have at least 30 days' notice of the appointment of a NIM Insurer prior to being required to deliver notices to such NIM Insurer. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerNIM Insurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Auction Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Price payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer NIM Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or a fund for which such institution serves as custodian or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Asset Back Certs Ser 2004-Bc2)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that forbearance and the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event conclusion that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerNIMS Insurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Amount payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mort Inv Inc Mort Ln Ast BCK CTS Ser 2003-Bc1)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest chargepenalty interest, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the prepayment of the Mortgage Loan is made in connection with the voluntary sale of the related Mortgaged Property, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all the Purchase Prices Price and any Substitution Adjustment AmountsAmount; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12prepayment penalties; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees Property) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerNIMS Insurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator or Clean Up Call Amount payable pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in default 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any forbearance and the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary conclusion that any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess Excess) need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 4:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested for the benefit of the Trustee in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2006-He6)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, default and (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default)Loan, or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of such Prepayment Charge or portion thereof, or of a similar type of Prepayment Charge, would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or only to the extent that there are no NIM Notes outstanding or to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that all previously issued NIM Notes are no longer outstanding, there is a certificated class action in which a similar type of prepayment charge is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earned. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer will not enforce any Prepayment Penalty with respect to the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the Mortgage Loans listed on Exhibit C hereto will be treated as not having Prepayment Penalties. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges)) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the TrusteeSecurities Administrator, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities Administrator. (e) The Securities Administrator shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator prior to 1:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities Administrator) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Securities Administrator, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Securities Administrator. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account as directed by the Servicer or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Administrator in the Certificate Account out of the Securities Administrator's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided belowpenalty interest; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after since the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in one 3.01. The Servicer's analysis supporting any 12 month period or more than three times over forbearance and the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, conclusion that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.01. In connection with any modification pursuant to this Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge Penalty and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (iv) sufficient information is this Agreement expressly provides that the Servicer shall not made available to enable it to impose or collect the Prepayment Chargea prepayment penalty. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge prepayment penalty (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days (or, in the case of the Optional Termination Amount, one Business Day) of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest ExcessDate; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (viv) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (viivi) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viiivii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ixviii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties; (xix) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiixi) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees ) and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Chargesprepayment penalties) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs InsurerInsurer and, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) [RESERVED]. (f) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited in the Certificate Account; (ii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iii) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator Trustee or the NIMs Insurer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 3:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall be invested in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (fg) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or the Certificate Account shall invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it no less often than monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain (net of any losses other than those losses that the Servicer has previously covered pursuant to this Section) realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicableTrustee, in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Inc)

Collection of Mortgage Loan Payments; Collection Account; Certificate Account. (a) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Loans to the extent such procedures shall be consistent with this Agreement and the terms and provisions of any related Required Insurance Policy. Consistent with the foregoing and subject to Section 3.01foregoing, the Servicer may in its discretion (i) waive any late payment charge or, if applicable, any default interest charge, or (ii) subject to Section 3.01, extend the due dates for payments due on a Mortgage Note for a period not greater than 180 days; provided, however, that any extension pursuant to clause (ii) above shall not affect the amortization schedule of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of any computation hereunder, except as provided below; provided, further, that the NIMs Insurer's prior written consent shall be required for any modification, waiver or amendment after the Cut-off Date if the aggregate number of outstanding Mortgage Loans which have been modified, waived or amended exceeds 5% of the number of Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-Off Date. In the event of any such arrangement pursuant to clause (ii) above, subject to Section 4.01, the Servicer shall make any Advances on the related Mortgage Loan during the scheduled period in accordance with the amortization schedule of such Mortgage Loan without modification thereof by reason of such arrangements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any Mortgage Loan is in default or, in the judgment of the Servicer, such default is reasonably foreseeable, the Servicer, consistent with the standards set forth in Section 3.01, may also waive, modify or vary any term of such Mortgage Loan (including modifications that would change the Mortgage Rate, forgive the payment of principal or interest or extend the final maturity date of such Mortgage Loan), accept payment from the related Mortgagor of an amount less than the Stated Principal Balance in final satisfaction of such Mortgage Loan, or consent to the postponement of strict compliance with any such term or otherwise grant indulgence to any Mortgagor (any and all such waivers, modifications, variances, forgiveness of principal or interest, postponements, or indulgences collectively referred to herein as "forbearance"), provided, however, that in no event shall the Servicer grant any such forbearance (other than as permitted by the second sentence of this Section) with respect to any one Mortgage Loan more than once in any 12 month period or more than three times over the life of such Mortgage Loan, and provided, further, that in determining which course of action permitted by this sentence it shall pursue, the Servicer shall adhere to the standards of Section Section 3.01. In connection with The Servicer's analysis supporting any modification pursuant to this forbearance and the conclusion that any forbearance meets the standards of Section 3.05(a) and to 3.01 shall be reflected in writing in the extent there are any unreimbursed Advances, the Servicer shall reimburse itself for such amounts from the Collection AccountMortgage File. (b) The Servicer will not waive any Prepayment Charge or portion thereof unless, (i) the enforceability thereof shall have been limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, receivership and or other similar laws relating to creditors' rights generally or is otherwise prohibited by law, or (ii) the collectability thereof shall have been limited due to acceleration in connection with a foreclosure or other involuntary payment, or (iii) the Servicer has not been provided with information sufficient to enable it to collect the Prepayment Charge, or (iv) in the Servicer's reasonable judgment as described in Section 3.01 hereof, (x) such waiver relates to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default, (y) such waiver would maximize recovery of total proceeds taking into account the value of such Prepayment Charge and related Mortgage Loan and (z) doing so is standard and customary in servicing similar Mortgage Loans (including any waiver of a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default), or (ivv) sufficient information is not made available to enable it to collect the collection of the Prepayment ChargeCharge or of a similar type of prepayment premium would be considered "predatory" or "illegal" pursuant to written guidance published by any applicable federal, state or local regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such matters or has been challenged by any such authority, or (vi) only to the extent that the Depositor has notified the Servicer that there are no NIM Notes outstanding, there is a certified class action in which a similar type of prepayment premium is being challenged. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, in no event will the Servicer waive a Prepayment Charge in connection with a refinancing of a Mortgage Loan that is not related to a default or a reasonably foreseeable default. If the Servicer waives or does not collect all or a portion of a Prepayment Charge relating to a Principal Prepayment in full or in part due to any action or omission of the Servicer, other than as provided above, the Servicer shall deposit the amount of such Prepayment Charge (or such portion thereof as had been waived for deposit) into the Collection Account for distribution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) The Servicer shall not be required to institute or join in litigation with respect to collection of any payment (whether under a Mortgage, Mortgage Note or otherwise or against any public or governmental authority with respect to a taking or condemnation) if it reasonably believes that enforcing the provision of the Mortgage or other instrument pursuant to which such payment is required is prohibited by applicable law. (d) The Servicer shall establish and maintain so long as it is acting as servicer hereunderinitially maintain, on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the a Collection Account. The Servicer shall deposit into the such Collection AccountAccount daily, within two Business Days of receipt thereof, in immediately available funds, the following payments and collections received or made by it on and after the Cut-Off off Date with respect to the Mortgage Loans: (i) all payments on account of principal, including Principal Prepayments, on the Mortgage Loans, other than principal due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date; (ii) all payments on account of interest on the Mortgage Loans net of the related Servicing Fee permitted under Section 3.15, other than (x) interest due on the Mortgage Loans on or prior to the Cut-off Date and (y) Prepayment Interest Excess; (iii) all Liquidation Proceeds, other than proceeds to be applied to the restoration or repair of the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) or released to either the Mortgagor or the holder of a senior lien on the Mortgaged Property (or Underlying Mortgaged Property, in the case of a Co-op Loan) in accordance with the Servicer's normal servicing procedures; (iv) all Subsequent Recoveries; (v) all Compensating Interest; (vi) any amount required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.05(f3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; (vii) any amounts required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof; (viii) all Purchase Prices and Substitution Adjustment Amounts; (ix) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01; (xix) all Prepayment Charges; (xi) all net monthly rental income from REO Properties required to be deposited by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.12; and (xiix) any other amounts required to be deposited hereunder. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer into the Collection Account shall be exclusive, it being understood and agreed that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all servicing-related fees, including all late payment charges, insufficient funds charges, customary real estate referral fees charges and payments in the nature of assumption fees (i.e. fees related to the assumption of a Mortgage Loan upon the purchase of the related Mortgaged Property or stock allocated to a dwelling unit in the case of a Co-op Loan), modification fees, extension fees and other similar ancillary fees and charges (other than Prepayment Charges) if collected, and any Prepayment Interest Excess need not be remitted by the Servicer. Rather, such fees and charges and similar amounts may be retained by the Servicer as additional servicing compensation. In the event that the Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw or direct the Trustee, or such other institution maintaining the Collection Account, to withdraw such amount from the Collection Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall maintain adequate records with respect to all withdrawals made pursuant to this Section. All funds deposited in the Collection Account shall be held in trust for the Certificateholders until withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Collection Account at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Securities Administrator Insurer and the Trustee of the location of the Collection Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. Not later than twenty days after each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall forward to the NIMs Insurer, and upon request, to the Securities Administrator, the Trustee and the Depositor the most current available bank statement for the Collection Account. Copies of such statement shall be provided by the Securities Administrator Trustee to any Certificateholder and to any Person identified to the Securities Administrator Trustee as a prospective transferee of a Certificate, upon request at the expense of the requesting party, provided such statement is delivered by the Servicer to the Securities AdministratorTrustee. (e) The Securities Administrator Trustee shall establish and maintain, on behalf of the Certificateholders, the Certificate Account. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall, promptly upon receipt, deposit or cause to be deposited in the Certificate Account and retain therein the following: (i) the aggregate amount withdrawn by the Servicer from the Collection Account and required to be deposited for deposit in the Certificate Account; (ii) the Purchase Price and any Substitution Adjustment Amount; (iii) any amount required to be deposited by the Securities Administrator Trustee pursuant to Section 3.05(g) in connection with any losses on Permitted Investments; and (iiiiv) the Optional Termination Amount received paid by the Securities Administrator winning bidder at the Auction or by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01. Any amounts received by the Securities Administrator Trustee prior to 1:00 4:00 p.m. New York City time (or such earlier deadline for investment in the Permitted Investments designated by the Securities AdministratorTrustee) which are required to be deposited in the Certificate Account by the Servicer or Master Servicer shall may be invested for the benefit of the Trustee in Permitted Investments on the Business Day on which they were received. The foregoing requirements for remittance by the Servicer and Master Servicer and deposit by the Servicer and Master Servicer into the Certificate Account shall be exclusive. If the Servicer fails to remit any funds due by the time designated herein, the Servicer shall pay to the Trustee, for its own account, interest accrued on such funds at the prime rate as set forth in The Wall Street Journal from and including the applicable due date, to but excluding the day such funds are paid to the Trustee. In the event that the Servicer or the Master Servicer shall remit any amount not required to be remitted and not otherwise subject to withdrawal pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, it may at any time withdraw such amount from the Certificate Account, any provision herein to the contrary notwithstanding. All funds deposited in the Certificate Account shall be held by the Securities Administrator Trustee in trust for the Certificateholders until disbursed in accordance with this Agreement or withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.08. In no event shall the Securities Administrator Trustee incur liability for withdrawals from the Certificate Account at the direction of the Servicer or the Master Servicer. The Securities Administrator Trustee shall give notice to the NIMs Insurer, the Master Servicer Insurer and the Servicer of the location of the Certificate Account maintained by it when established and prior to any change thereof. (f) Each institution that maintains the Collection Account or shall, and each institution that maintains the Certificate Account may but shall not be required to, invest the funds in each such account account, as directed by the Servicer or the Securities AdministratorTrustee, as applicable, in writing, in Permitted Investments, which shall mature not later than (i) in the case of the Collection Account Account, the Business Day preceding the related Servicer Remittance Date (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Collection Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than the Servicer Remittance Date) and (ii) in the case of the Certificate Account, the Business Day immediately preceding the first Distribution Date that follows the date of such investment (except that if such Permitted Investment is an obligation of the institution that maintains such Certificate Account or is otherwise immediately available, then such Permitted Investment shall mature not later than such Distribution Date) and, in each case, shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity. All such Permitted Investments shall be made in the name of the Servicer, or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account shall be for the benefit of the Servicer as servicing compensation and shall be remitted to it or withdrawn by it monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Collection Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account out of the Servicer's own funds immediately as realized. (g) . All income and gain net of any losses realized from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Account shall be for the benefit of (i) the Servicer to the extent such income Trustee and gain (net of any losses) relates to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date and (ii) the Securities Administrator to the extent such income and gain (net of any losses) relates to any other period. Any amounts in such Certificate Account earned for the benefit of the Servicer shall be remitted to or withdrawn by the Securities Administrator to the Servicer not later than the third Business Day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which such amounts were earnedit monthly as provided herein. The amount of any losses incurred in the Certificate Account in respect of any such investments shall be deposited by the Servicer and/or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, Trustee in the Certificate Account out of the Securities AdministratorTrustee's own funds immediately as realized; provided that the Securities Administrator shall be reimbursed by the Servicer for any such losses which relate to the period from the Servicer Remittance Date to but not including the Business Day immediately preceding the related Distribution Date.

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Samples: Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Merrill Lynch Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-Fm1)

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