Press Release

DBRS Publishes Two Updated General Corporate Criteria

Energy, Consumers, Industrials
March 05, 2014

DBRS has today published two updated general corporate criteria:

-- DBRS Criteria: Recovery Ratings for Non-Investment Grade Corporate Issuers; and
-- DBRS Criteria: Rating Market-Linked Securities.

While each criteria has been revised for greater clarity, the changes overall are not substantive and there were no rating changes or rating actions caused by the publication of these methodologies.

DBRS's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available at www.dbrs.com.