Colin Ellis

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Shared Services UK Ltd. is a company that provides credit ratings, research, risk analysis, and shared services. The company is based in London, UK.

Moody's France SAS is a global integrated risk assessment firm headquartered in Paris, France. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. Moody's France provides investors with a comprehensive view of global debt markets through credit ratings and research. It also provides data, analytics and insights to equip leaders of financial, non-financial and government organizations with effective tools to understand a range of risks.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Moody's Deutschland GmbH is the Germany-based investment research subsidiary of Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. Headquartered in Frankfurt, the firm was founded in 1991 and provides credit ratings, research, risk analyzes and default data to German-speaking clients including banks, insurance companies, asset managers and industrial companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Moody's Canada, Inc. is an investment research firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 1992 and is a subsidiary of Moody's Overseas Holdings Inc., which is owned by Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. Moody’s Canada provides Canadian fixed income professionals with a variety of products and services, such as credit analyses, regular analyst briefings, seminars, conferences, and one-on-one meetings. They cover a variety of Industry sectors which includes financial institutions, media and telecommunications, oil and gas, power and gas utilities and pipelines, paper and forest products, sub-sovereign governments, project & infrastructure finance and structured finance.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Latin America Calificadora de Riesgo SA is a company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Argentinean company provides local credit ratings in Latin America. Martín Fernández Romero has been the CEO of the company since 2003.

The Bank of Canada provides banking and financial services. Its services include mortgage and payment processing, loan application, credit card application, accounting solutions, tax preparation, financial analysis, insurance, and payroll processing services to its clients. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Fitch Ratings Ltd. (FRL) is an investment research firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, Inc., ultimately held by The Hearst Family Trust in the US. FRL provides research and specialized ratings of services to residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and managed funds. They also publish quantitatively based ratings such as Q-IFS ratings.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Group France SAS is a French company that provides investment services. The company is based in Paris, France and was founded in 2007.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Group Deutschland GmbH is a integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions. The company is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The CEOs are Britta Genehr, Timothy John Crawford Herring. The German company was founded in 2008.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Group UK Ltd. provides information services. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2007.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Interfax Rating Agency Ltd. provides credit risk evaluation and political news coverage services. The company is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Part of Moody's Corp., Moody's Holdings Ltd. is a holding British company that provides credit rating, research, and risk analysis services for debt instruments through its subsidiaries. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2000.

Part of Moody's Corp., Midroog Ltd. is a credit ranking agency based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli company provides rankings for non-financial corporations, real estate, investment companies, financing, credit projects, and energy establishments. The company's services include registration and report relationships, transparency, reliability, and professional views. Midroog uses rating ladders to give its opinion in accordance with the settings listed on the scale itself. The company's ratings and publications do not constitute a statement about the correctness of facts at the time of advertising or at all. Midroog is not responsible for the correctness of the information and is presented as provided by the same sources of information. Midroog was founded by Gil Gazit and is currently led by CEO Eran Heimer.