Case Study: DBRS achieves faster, auditable credit models and increased market responsiveness with Domino Data Lab

Competing with Better, Faster Credit Analysis at a Top 4 Credit Rating Agency

DBRS, a top‑four credit rating agency, needed to deliver better credit models and faster market responses while meeting strict governance and audit requirements. With data science teams spread across Toronto, New York, London and Chicago, DBRS faced duplicated effort, slow experimentation, and IT bottlenecks that threatened time‑to‑market and regulatory transparency.

DBRS deployed Domino on AWS as a centralized, language‑agnostic data science platform to provide self‑service scalable compute, automatic reproducibility and easy collaboration. The platform cut duplication, preserved full experimental records for audits, and let analysts experiment faster; adoption grew rapidly (from an expected 12 users to ~650), accelerating model development, improving regulatory responsiveness, and strengthening competitive advantage and talent recruitment.

DBRS

Sean Lensborn

Chief Information Officer