Industry-leading Credit Risk Solutions

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1 Industry-leading Credit Risk Solutions

2 About Us Fitch Solutions provides a range of industry-leading products and professional development services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary market-based content, we distribute the ratings, research and financial data of Fitch Ratings through a variety of flexible platforms. With innovation and experience behind every product and service we bring to market, our offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the credit markets. Dual-headquartered in New York and London, Fitch Solutions, along with Fitch Ratings, is part of the Fitch Group, a jointly owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A. and Hearst Corporation.

3 At Fitch Solutions, we draw on our wealth of expertise, unique skills and market insight to deliver end-to-end credit solutions that provide financial professionals with the context they need to make more informed and timely business decisions. How Our Products and Services Can Help You Understand credit trends and make informed investment decisions with online access to industry-leading research, analysis, data, ratings and methodologies Gain a competitive advantage by leveraging real-time research and information that is used by over 90% of the world s largest investors Inform your bank credit analysis using the most comprehensive source of bank financials and credit data on the market Monitor your exposure to credit and counterparty risk as well as validate and benchmark your own assessments with a comprehensive suite of marketbased credit risk indicators Reduce costs by eliminating the need to manually track, input and maintain ratings, research and financial data Meet your specific credit analysis needs with an integrated, standardized and custom data feed that can easily be imported into existing applications and models Manage regulatory and capital adequacy requirements with transparent credit information on a wide range of entities and securities Increase market insight with access to experienced Fitch Ratings analysts located around the world Stay abreast of the latest credit risk trends by attending practical, interactive and market-focused training courses

4 Our Research Services Fitch Research This online subscription service covers a broad range of sectors, entities and securities in over 150 countries, and provides access to premium Fitch content including in-depth research, special reports, and topical market commentary, as well as ongoing surveillance across Fitch-rated Structured Finance transactions, Covered Bonds and Fund and Asset Managers. Fitch Research also includes Fitch credit ratings and portfolio alerts that can be customized for individual portfolios and delivered in a variety of user-friendly formats. Peer Analysis Tool Driven by an extensive suite of financial data, the Peer Analysis Tool is a robust analytical tool providing key credit data on over 19,400 private and public banks, nearly 1,600 corporate entities and 100 sovereigns to help market participants perform cross-border and peer analyses. Our Risk & Performance Analytics Fitch Bank Credit Model Fitch Solutions proprietary Bank Credit Model produces Financial Implied Ratings a measure of a one-year, standalone financial strength of over 9,500 banks, including 3 years of history as well as daily Implied CDS Spreads for over 5,800 banks. Together, this data enables a comprehensive and consistent risk assessment approach that meets regulatory and compliance requirements. Fitch Risk & Performance Platform The platform offers a single point of access for CDS implied ratings, equity implied ratings, probability of default indices, and portfolio monitoring features. Tailored for front and middle office functions, Fitch Risk & Performance Platform provides market participants with a framework to measure and monitor credit risk and gain greater insight into the dynamics of the credit markets. Additionally, all market-based indicators available on this platform are also offered as a custom data feed. Fitch Credit Rating Data This comprehensive data feed delivers Fitch Ratings proprietary credit ratings, watches and outlooks, as well as up to 35 years of historical rating actions, including defaults. Fitch Credit Rating Data is available in customizable data sets to meet a client s specific requirements or in the following sector packages: Corporates, Financial Institutions, Insurance, Covered Bonds, Structured Finance and U.S. Public Finance. Fitch Fundamental Financial Data Driven by Fitch s extensive financial database of 30,000 U.S. and global banks and over 8,600 insurance firms, Fitch Fundamental Financial Data provides the most comprehensive bank and insurance financial content available on the market today. Bank Credit Risk Indicators As the industry s leading provider of bank credit intelligence, Fitch Solutions data feeds are available in a customizable bank credit risk indicator package to help market participants monitor their exposure to credit and counterparty risk as well as validate and benchmark their own assessments. Combining traditional bank data with market-based indicators, this data set includes credit ratings, fundamental financial data, financial implied ratings, implied CDS spreads, CDS pricing, liquidity scores, indices and implied ratings.

5 Our Pricing Services Fitch CDS Pricing Services Fitch Solutions has enhanced its market-leading CDS Pricing Services to include a wide variety of pricing intelligence that can be used for valuations as well as regulatory, accounting and risk management purposes. In addition to the core CDS pricing data, which comes directly from contributing market participants who use it to mark their books, the service also includes the following content: CDS Indices A set of independent and purely data-driven corporate and sovereign indices providing objective, transparent and unique data to more easily identify credit derivative trends and conduct market analysis over time. Data Feed Delivery All Fitch Solutions data feeds, including market-based indicators and traditional content such as credit ratings and fundamental financials, are standardized and can be customized by data field to be incorporated into a variety of packages. Fitch Solutions Integrated Data Service brings together comprehensive and unique market intelligence and delivers it via a single data feed that can easily integrate with a client s internal legacy applications. Using common identifiers to link disparate data formats, the service platform enables market participants to choose only the data they need from a cross-section of proprietary Fitch content. CDS Liquidity Scores Derived from a proprietary statistical model and utilizing a broad set of CDS market data, each asset is given a score and corresponding percentile ranking representing the most and least liquid entities across the global CDS universe. CDS Derived Bid Offers Based on spread level, liquidity ranking and region, CDS Derived Bid Offers provide valuable information on names outside the frequently traded CDS universe. Data is available for each maturity and is uniquely agnostic of currency, seniority and restructuring. CDS Benchmark Curves A benchmarking tool to support pricing of illiquid names using average CDS values calculated by rating, sector and region for the full-term structure across each currency, seniority and restructuring.

6 Our Professional Development Services Fitch Training Fitch Training is a specialist training firm focused on the provision of credit and corporate finance workshops for experienced professionals. Courses are offered across three areas: Financial Institutions, Corporate Credit, and Structured Finance/Securitization. Taught by industry experts, Fitch Training courses are practical, interactive and market focused. Financial Services professionals who benefit from Fitch Solutions offerings: Portfolio, hedge fund and investment managers Fixed-income analysts Risk managers and officers Counterparty risk managers Fund administrators Treasurers Pension fund managers Compliance officers Credit valuation adjustors Research analysts

7 Contact Us For more information about Fitch Solutions product and service offerings, visit us at New York One State Street Plaza New York, NY FITCH London 30 North Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 5GN

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