DBRS Releases Second Edition of Monthly Commentary, “What’s News”

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS) today released the second edition of its monthly multi-part commentary called “What’s News.” The report combines commentary from DBRS’s ratings teams across the globe.

Highlights from the newest edition include:

• Details about DBRS’s ongoing assessment of the applicability of ratings floors in nine countries;
• A discussion about the scope and variety of growth in infrastructure finance;
• A detailed explanation of the support and risks underlying DBRS’s ratings for the Republic of Italy;
• An overview of how the changing interest rate environment could benefit banks in coming quarters;
• An assessment of the precarious economic and regulatory climate on Italian banks;
• An examination of the risk of geographic concentration in US prime jumbo RMBS transactions;
• A review of the evolution and developing dynamics of the US student loan market
• An analysis of the relative economic health of Italian households

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