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DBRS
DBRS is a recognized, international rating agency, providing timely and comprehensive rating opinions to the world's capital markets. Privately owned and independent, DBRS offers in-depth credit analysis of corporate, financial institutions, and government issues in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. DBRS' extensive coverage of structured finance and securitization has solidified its standing as a leading provider of comprehensive, in-depth credit analysis.
For over 30+ years, DBRS has been the leading rating agency in Canada. This market position provides DBRS with the credit knowledge and expertise that has permitted us to expand our rating services into North America and Europe.
DBRS expanded into Europe in 2005 with the build-up of a Financial Institutions Group and was followed by the creation of a dedicated Structured Finance team. Its analytical teams comprise Managing Directors and senior analysts with extensive expertise and knowledge of the European capital markets.
We are committed to contributing to more opinion diversity among rating agencies with a strong focus on timely, transparent and qualitative analysis that take cultural specifics and dynamics of each local market into account. DBRS believes in a direct and logical analytical methodology. Our values are based on several core principles:
- Maintain a stable and constant rating philosophy by rating through economic cycles
- Provide timely and in-depth research
- Ensure our analysts are always accessible
DBRS is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, and Paris, and covers entities worldwide. For more information on our ratings and research, go to www.dbrs.com.
Fitch Ratings
Fitch Ratings is a leading global rating agency dual-headquartered in New York and London, operating offices and joint ventures in 49 locations and covering entities in 101 countries. Fitch Ratings is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., an international business support services group headquartered in Paris, France.