Dagong Global and Cbonds to start publishing credit ratings and research at www.cbonds.com

Dagong Global provides credit ratings for governments, financial institutions and non-financial corporates and issued bonds on the international rating scale, as well as the Chinese national rating scale to Chinese domestic bonds and both Chinese and international entities. Credit ratings of Dagong Global, as well as ratings of other rating agencies can be found in the “Credit ratings” section (http://cbonds.com/ratings/), as well as on the pages of issues (for instance http://cbonds.com/emissions/issue/423951) and issuers (for instance, http://cbonds.com/organisations/emitent/49889). Dagong Global credit ratings are available to the subscribers of our website and the clients of Cbonds informational services. “The Belt and Road Initiative is deepening the financial integration along the Eurasian economic corridor, and we are glad that our cooperation with Cbonds will provide additional transparency on credit information along the Belt and Road to all market participants in Russia and worldwide,” commented by Andrew Wu, General Manager of Dagong Global’s European operations. Founded in 1994, Dagong Global Credit Rating Group is a global credit information service group. It is the world’s only credit rating agency with operations in both China and western markets. As the founding member of Dagong, Dagong Global Credit Rating Co Ltd is a leading credit rating agency based in China. It is licensed to rate all debt categories in all markets in China and has rated over 10,000 issuers across more than 70 sectors, with over 10 trillion RMB bond financing raised. Dagong is also the only credit rating agency originated from Asia with established operations in Europe. Dagong Europe Credit Rating srl was established in 2012 with offices in Milan and Frankfurt am Main. It received authorisation from the European Securities Market Authority as Credit Rating Agency (“CRA”). Started in 2001 as a local data provider for corporate bonds in Russia, Cbonds now covers international and domestic bond markets in 170 countries. The scope of data at Cbonds constantly grows and Cbonds is becoming a global provider of fixed income information. Cbonds database gives the detailed information on each bond, including extensive descriptive data, prospectuses, ratings from global and national rating agencies, bond calculator, analytical tools. The platform provides daily bond pricing from 110 stock exchanges and 120 market makers, cash flow, bond indices. Cbonds website publishes research on the market from leading investment houses, key indices, League Tables of investment banks – arrangers of loans and leading issuers, issuer’s League Tables, financial reports, and much more. Today Cbonds has subscribers (institutional and private investors) from more than 50 countries all over the world. Information on Cbonds website is presented in Russian, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, German, Chinese and English languages.