Rating Agency Developments

On July 19, 2016, DBRS published its criteria for rating CLOs backed by loans to European SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).  Report.

On July 18, 2016, Fitch published its criteria for assigning new and existing ratings to sovereign issuersReport.

On July 18, 2016, Fitch published an addendum that supplements its counterparty criteria for structured finance and covered bondsReport.

On July 14, 2016, DBRS published an update to its criteria for evaluating servicers in North American CMBS transactions.  Report.

On July 14, 2016, DBRS published its criteria for rating European covered bondsReport.

On July 14, 2016, DBRS published its master European structured finance surveillance methodology.  Report.