DBRS Discontinues Rating on Golden Bar (Securitisation) S.r.l. - Series 2012-1

DBRS Ratings Limited (DBRS) has today discontinued its ratings on the Class A Notes issued by Golden Bar (Securitisation) S.r.l. - Series 2012-1

The rating action reflects the payment in full of the Class A Notes as of the payment date on 20 January 2016. The remaining balance of the Class A Notes before its payment in full was EUR 47,206,073.19 and it was rated A (high) (sf) by DBRS. DBRS also rates the Class B Notes in the same transaction. Please refer to www.dbrs.com for more information.

Notes:
All figures are in euros unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodology applicable is the Master European Structured Finance Surveillance Methodology. The rating action derives directly from an acknowledgement of fact, and DBRS conducted no analysis.
This may be found on www.dbrs.com at:
http://www.dbrs.com/about/methodologies

For a more detailed discussion of sovereign risk impact on Structured Finance ratings, please refer to DBRS’s “The Effect of Sovereign Risk on Securitisations in the Euro Area” commentary at http://www.dbrs.com/industries/bucket/id/10036/name/commentaries/.

The sources of information used for this rating include investor reports provided by The Bank of New York Mellon, London branch (the “calculation agent”) and servicer reports provided by Santander Consumer Bank SpA. DBRS considers the information available to it for the purposes of providing this rating was of satisfactory quality.

DBRS does not rely upon third-party due diligence in order to conduct its analysis; DBRS was not supplied with third party assessments; however, this did not impact the rating analysis.

DBRS does not audit the information it receives in connection with the rating process, and it does not and cannot independently verify that information in every instance.

The last rating action on this transaction took place on 1 July 2015 when DBRS upgraded the ratings on the Class A Notes to A (high) (sf) from A (sf) and upgraded the ratings on the Class B notes to BBB (high) (sf) from BBB (sf).

Information regarding DBRS ratings, including definitions, policies and methodologies is available at www.dbrs.com.

For further information on DBRS historic default rates published by the European Securities and Markets Administration in a central repository, see
http://cerep.esma.europa.eu/cerep-web/statistics/defaults.xhtml.

Ratings assigned by DBRS Ratings Limited are subject to EU regulations only.

Initial Lead Analyst: Paolo Conti
Initial Rating Date: 23 July 2012
Initial Rating Committee Chair: Claire Mezzanotte

Lead Surveillance Analyst: Andrew Lynch

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A description of how DBRS analyses structured finance transactions and how the methodologies are collectively applied can be found at: http://www.dbrs.com/research/278375.