Standard & Poor’s has given an "above average" ranking to HomeEQ Servicing Corp. The servicing shop, owned by First Union, is a remnant of The Money Store subsidiary the banking giant shuttered last year. According to S&P, HomeEQ currently services a book of more than 500,000 subprime loans, totaling more than $21 billion – large enough to place the Sacramento-based shop squarely among the top five subprime servicers during the first three months of 2001.