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DBRS provides investors with rating, research and analytic information to make informed investment decisions. DBRS analysts are focused on servicing the investors first and foremost with timely, insightful, opinionated analysis and the highest caliber client servicing. In addition to being the leading rating agency in Canada, DBRS has a growing ratings business throughout North America and Europe.

    DBRS features two primary investor oriented products:
  • Web Subscriptions Access to research, ratings and other content via DBRS.com.
  • RatingsNow DBRS ratings data feed delivered conveniently in a form useful to you.

Web Subscriptions

DBRS.com is the primary means by which investors, bankers, credit professionals and others obtain content that is published by DBRS. Key features include:

  • Access to all global corporate, structured finance, financial institutions and public finance ratings and research.
  • Access to DBRS analysts for one-on-one discussions.
  • Customizable “As It Happens” alerts on all ratings and other content as it is released or compiled at the end of the day.
  • Access to all Newsletters, Methodologies, Industry Studies, Peer Comparisons, Company Reports and New Issue Reports.
  • Complimentary access to all DBRS events, including conferences, teleconferences and analyst seminars.
  • Data Models and Analytics including:

RatingsNow

DBRS RatingsNow is the authoritative data feed of DBRS debt ratings. With DBRS standing behind the feed, you can proceed with confidence in your decisions, knowing that you are backed by accurate and up-to-date ratings data.

The product is used by financial institutions and investment firms to automatically populate internal rating databases. The automated ratings feed reduces resources required to manually input, track and maintain ratings data.

RatingsNow provides you with the full DBRS rated universe covering Corporate, Structured Finance, Public Finance, and Leveraged Finance issuers.

Key Features include:

  • End-of-day updates of ratings actions delivered electronically via a file transfer protocol (FTP)
  • CUSIP security identifiers for easy mapping
  • Up to 19 fields of security descriptors
  • Historical ratings are also available
  • Integrates into existing databases
  • Daily, weekly or monthly updates
  • Direct feed of DBRS ratings to your database