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Kroll Bond Rating Agency

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) is a full-service credit rating agency founded in 2010 by Jules Kroll and headquartered in New York, with offices in Dresher PA, Frederick MD, Chicago, Dublin, London, and Tokyo. KBRA is registered with the U.S. SEC as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization and with ESMA and the UK FCA through its Irish and UK entities. It has issued 96,000+ ratings covering $4.78 trillion of rated issuance across ABS, CMBS, RMBS, structured credit, corporates, financial institutions, funds, insurance, project finance, public finance, and sovereigns. KBRA distributes ratings and analytics commercially through the KBRA Analytics product family — Ratings Feed, Credit Intelligence, Direct Lending Deals, Premium, Credit Profile (KCP), and Financial Intelligence (KFI). KBRA publishes no public API or developer portal; machine access is contract-gated and delivered as bulk feeds over email/FTP/SFTP, through the Snowflake Marketplace, or via Bloomberg, Aladdin, and FactSet.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Credit Ratings, Financial Services, Financial Data, and Structured Finance.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 15 more developer resources.

23.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyCredit RatingsFinancial ServicesFinancial DataStructured FinanceFixed IncomeRiskAnalyticsMarket DataNRSRO

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 23.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: kroll-bond-rating-agency
name: Kroll Bond Rating Agency
description: Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) is a full-service credit rating agency founded in 2010 by Jules Kroll and headquartered
  in New York, with offices in Dresher PA, Frederick MD, Chicago, Dublin, London, and Tokyo. KBRA is registered with the U.S.
  SEC as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization and with ESMA and the UK FCA through its Irish and UK entities.
  It has issued 96,000+ ratings covering $4.78 trillion of rated issuance across ABS, CMBS, RMBS, structured credit, corporates,
  financial institutions, funds, insurance, project finance, public finance, and sovereigns. KBRA distributes ratings and
  analytics commercially through the KBRA Analytics product family — Ratings Feed, Credit Intelligence, Direct Lending Deals,
  Premium, Credit Profile (KCP), and Financial Intelligence (KFI). KBRA publishes no public API or developer portal; machine
  access is contract-gated and delivered as bulk feeds over email/FTP/SFTP, through the Snowflake Marketplace, or via Bloomberg,
  Aladdin, and FactSet.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kbra-static-assets.azureedge.net/assets/kbra-social-logo.webp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kroll-bond-rating-agency/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: no-api
x-tier-reason: Enriched 2026-07-19. KBRA publishes no public REST/GraphQL API, no developer portal, no OpenAPI, no SDKs, and
  no /.well-known/ discovery documents. Data access is a commercial feed/marketplace arrangement (email/FTP/SFTP, Snowflake
  Marketplace, Bloomberg/Aladdin/FactSet). Company identity, regulatory compliance surface, and domain security were captured;
  API-shaped artifacts are legitimately not applicable.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Credit Ratings
- Financial Services
- Financial Data
- Structured Finance
- Fixed Income
- Risk
- Analytics
- Market Data
- NRSRO
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kbra.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/overview
- type: Products
  url: https://www.kbra.com/analytics/products/overview
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.kbra.com/understanding-ratings/methodologies
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/newsroom/news
- type: Press
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/newsroom/media
- type: Events
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/events
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.kbra.com/company/careers
- type: Podcast
  url: https://www.engagewith.kbra.com/podcasts
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.kbra.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.kbra.com/auth/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kbra.com/legal/terms-of-use/website
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kbra.com/legal/privacy-notice
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.kbra.com/legal/cookie-policy
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.kbra.com/regulatory/certifications-and-recognitions
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kroll-bond-rating-agency-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kroll-bond-rating-agency-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kroll-bond-rating-agency-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence