TORONTO (Standard&Poor's) March 25, 2015--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today said it assigned its 'BBB+' rating to The Bank of Nova Scotia's (BNS) C$1.25 billion nonviability contingent capital (NVCC) subordinated debt issue. The issuer credit rating on BNS is A+/Negative/A-1. "In accordance with our criteria for hybrid and other capital instruments, the rating reflects our analysis of the proposed instrument, and our assessment of BNS' 'a' stand-alone credit profile," said Standard&Poor's credit analyst Nikola Swann. (For more information, see "Bank Hybrid Capital And Nondeferrable Subordinated Debt Methodology And Assumptions," published Jan. 29, 2015, on RatingsDirect.) The 'BBB+' issue rating stands two notches below BNS' stand-alone credit profile (SACP), incorporating: A deduction of one notch, the minimum