Several investor services organizations provide their clients or subscribers with corporate governance assessments, evaluations, and/or ratings or grades with respect to certain corporations with publicly traded securities. The reports prepared by these organizations vary in terms of the criteria used to evaluate corporate governance practices and policies and the assessment process. The published corporate governance ratings, grades, and evaluations reflect the opinions of those organizations and are not recommendations to buy, sell or hold any of CIT's securities.
Listed below are the investor services organizations that currently evaluate CIT's corporate governance. It should be noted that, due to confidentiality restrictions imposed by certain organizations, in some cases the information in this section may be incomplete. Full reports and/or ratings information may be available only to subscribers of the particular investor services organization. Individuals should visit the Web sites maintained by such organizations for information regarding (1) the ratings process and criteria utilized by each investor services organization and (2) how to subscribe to the services provided by the particular investor services organization.
CIT does not pay a fee to any of the investor services organizations listed below in connection with their issuance of corporate governance ratings. The investor services organizations can change or withdraw their ratings at any time.