ABCD Paper: Mortage loans are rated as A, B, C, or D paper. A paper loans are the highest quality, lowest risk loans, B quality are loans where the borrower has minor credit problems, C quality are borrowers with marginal or poor credit, D quality indicates very high risk loans.

 

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Prime Paper: The highest-quality, investment-grade debt of corporations as decided by rating agencies such as Moody's.

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