Press Release

DBRS Publishes Updated Commercial Paper Liquidity Support Criteria for Corporate Non-Bank Issuers

Non-Bank Financial Institutions
November 26, 2012

DBRS has today published an updated criteria which focuses on liquidity support for corporate non-bank issuers.

Excluding additional comments related to how DBRS views the appropriate size of short-term debt for an issuer and minor changes and additional clarity with respect to the area of regional governments, there were no material changes from the last published version and, as such, this update has not resulted in any rating changes or rating actions.

DBRS criteria and methodologies are publicly available at www.dbrs.com under Methodologies.