# Kroll Bond Rating Agency

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kroll-bond-rating-agency/  
**Website:** https://www.kbra.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 18.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |
| Access Clarity | 42.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 40.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Kroll Bond Rating Agency Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Credit Ratings, Financial-Services, Financial Data, Structured Finance, Fixed Income, Risk, Analytics, Market Data, NRSRO

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