Press Release

DBRS Discontinues Guaranteed Short-Term Rating of HSBC Canada

Banking Organizations
September 03, 2009

DBRS has today discontinued the guaranteed short-term instrument rating of HSBC Bank Canada as all short-term instruments that were guaranteed by HSBC Holdings plc have been repaid.

Notes:
The applicable methodology is Rating Banks in Canada, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

This is a Corporate (Financial Institutions) rating.

Ratings

HSBC Bank Canada
  • Date Issued:Sep 3, 2009
  • Rating Action:Disc.-Repaid
  • Ratings:Discontinued
  • Trend:--
  • Rating Recovery:
  • Issued:CA
  • US = Lead Analyst based in USA
  • CA = Lead Analyst based in Canada
  • EU = Lead Analyst based in EU
  • UK = Lead Analyst based in UK
  • E = EU endorsed
  • U = UK endorsed
  • Unsolicited Participating With Access
  • Unsolicited Participating Without Access
  • Unsolicited Non-participating

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