Press Release

DBRS Confirms R-1 (middle) Rating on White Point Funding, Inc.’s Commercial Paper

ABCP
February 23, 2016

DBRS, Inc. (DBRS) has today confirmed the rating of R-1 (middle) (sf) on the 4(2) Commercial Paper (CP) to be issued by White Point Funding, Inc. (WP Funding or Conduit), sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada. As of today, the Conduit remains in place; however, there is currently no outstanding CP nor new CP being issued.

The provisions of the Conduit set forth prior review of all new transactions by DBRS before the transactions are funded in the Conduit.

The sources of information used for this rating include parties involved in the rating, including, but not limited to, the Royal Bank of Canada. DBRS considers the information available to it for the purposes of providing this rating to be satisfactory.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The applicable methodology is Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Criteria Report: U.S. ABCP Conduits, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

This rating is endorsed by DBRS Ratings Limited for use in the European Union.

Ratings

  • 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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