Non-traditional mortage lender Xceed Mortgage Corp. today announced that it expects to take an after-tax valuation charge of $17 million to $20 million when valuing its deferred net mortgage interest receivable at the end of its fiscal fourth quarter ended October 31.

The company noted that liquidity problems in Canada’s asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market, which first surfaced in August of this year, have resulted in increased spreads being paid to holders of extendible ABCP.

Today, approximately 37% percent of Xceed’s mortgage portfolio of $2.7 billion is funded by extendible ABCP. Under Canadian generally accepted accounting principles the company is required to reflect the impact of these increased spreads when valuing its deferred net mortgage interest receivable, which represents the net present value of the interest spreads it expects to earn on its securitized mortgage portfolio during the term of all of its mortgages.

The valuation write-down contemplated assumes that these increased spreads will prevail until the very end of the term of the most recently funded mortgages in the part of Xceed’s portfolio which is funded by extendible ABCP; in other words, up to five years from the date that spreads first started to widen.

“This charge to net income represents a revaluation of the present value of our interest in securitized mortgage cash flows,” stated Ivan Wahl, chairman and CEO. “This write-down will be recognized at the end of our fourth quarter and will represent a reduction of approximately 14% to 17% of the $117 million of shareholders’ equity the company reported recently for its third quarter ended July 31, 2007.”

Xceed Mortgage expects to report its fiscal 2007 year-end financial results on Jan. 10, 2008.