Press Release

DBRS Discontinues Guaranteed Short-Term Rating of HSBC Canada

Banking Organizations
September 03, 2009

DBRS has today discontinued the guaranteed short-term instrument rating of HSBC Bank Canada as all short-term instruments that were guaranteed by HSBC Holdings plc have been repaid.

Notes:
The applicable methodology is Rating Banks in Canada, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

This is a Corporate (Financial Institutions) rating.

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