TORONTO (Standard&Poor's) April 14, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today said it assigned its 'BBB-' global scale and 'P-2(Low)' Canada scale ratings to Bank of Montreal's (BMO) C$300 million non-cumulative five-year rate reset class B preferred shares series 27. The issuer credit rating on BMO is A+/Stable/A-1. "In accordance with our criteria for hybrid and other capital instruments, the ratings reflect our analysis of the instrument, and our assessment of BMO's 'a-' stand-alone credit profile," said Standard&Poor's credit analyst Lidia Parfeniuk. (For more information, see "Bank Hybrid Capital Methodology And Assumptions", published Nov. 1, 2011, on RatingsDirect on the Global Credit Portal.) The 'BBB-/P-2(Low)' ratings stand three notches below BMO's stand-alone credit profile (SACP), incorporating: A